Exceptional minimum service from Planète Metal this week with this zapping sequence significantly shorter than usual…
TEASING
Inspired by local legends and myths, TOWARB unfolds its Alsaco-medieval pagan with “D’Alta”. While waiting for his next album…
SORTIES SURPRISE
SORTIES
FESTIVALS
In 2025, the Orange Metalik Festival changes its name to become the Positive Festival. On July 29, DREAM THEATER, EXTREME et THE LAST INTERNATIONALE will perform in the prestigious Antique Theater of Orange, listed as a UNESCO world heritage site. In 2023, the latest edition, 4 groups were on the bill and we therefore do not yet know whether a 4th group will join them or not. To be continued.
MASTERCLASS
Meet with Patrick Rondat on March 15 at the Quai du Blues in Saintes (17) for a masterclass. The new solo album by the virtuoso, who is signed to Verychords, should be released in April.
JUST FOR YOUR EYES… (AND YOUR EARS)
REVENANTS
KING DIAMOND has finally released a first official video taken from “Saint Lucifer's Hospital 1920”, the first part of a trilogy of albums expected in 2025: “Spider Lilly”. As on his recent American tour, it is Darknesswho also plays keyboards live, who provided backing vocals.
R.I.P.
Real name Karim Chmielnski, Casey Chaossinger ofAMENan American hardcore punk band prominent in the late 90s, died on December 21 at the age of 59. The causes of his death are unknown.
ON TOUR
PARTNER CONCERTS
AND CONCERT
INTERVIEWS
Find all the interviews by clicking on this link.
LIVE REVIEWS
Click on the post to discover the concert report and the portfolio (if there is a portfolio).
Find all the concert reports by clicking here.
PORTFOLIOS
Click on the post to discover the photo gallery.
Find all the portfolios by clicking here.
RANKINGS
In partnership with the SNEP and the SCPP, HARD FORCE et HEAVY1 present to you the Top 100 French Rock & Metalwith a reminder of the best album sales that concern us in Germany, Belgium/Wallonia and Great Britain. This is where it happens.
DIVERS
And always, for lovers of musical discoveries: Noiseweek on HEAVY1 with “Post Mortem” by SUBWAY TO SALLY in album of the week and a selection of “Revelations 2024”. (Podcast)
About the author
Laurence Faure
Laurence fell into hard rock quite a few years ago. But based on the principle that “If it's too loud, you're too old” and that she always listens to Music on 11, she thinks she's living proof that metal in high doses is a real fountain of youth. Or maybe she's deaf, but let her dream… After having “religiously” read the French press of the heyday, Laurence joined Hard Rock Magazine as a journalist and editorial secretary, before briefly becoming editor-in-chief. Disembarked and determined to change environment, LF now works in the specialized press (motor sports), but as it is really only metal that makes her little heart beat, when HARD FORCE asked her to join the team at the end of 2013 , she arrived “fast as a shark”.
His other publications
Music
