Electric State are hitting the galaxy hard with a tune that Grogu and Mando would crank in the Razor Crest while defending the galaxy! This Is The Way is a bit of fun and was written around the question of what rock song would Grogu write? This Is The Way is a fun Mandalorian inspired […]Category: news
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Premiere: ELECTRIC STATE ‘This Is The Way’
Electric State are hitting the galaxy hard with a tune that Grogu and Mando would crank in the Razor Crest while defending the galaxy! This Is The Way is a bit of fun and was written around the question of what rock song would Grogu write? This Is The Way is a fun Mandalorian inspired […] -
Alter Bridge zurück auf Tour
Halt in Bremen verspricht ein echtes Rock-Highlight
Wenn Alter Bridge auf Tour gehen, ist klar: Es wird laut, emotional und musikalisch auf höchstem Niveau. Am 4. Juni 2026 macht die Band im Bremer Pier 2 Halt. Für Fans von modernem Hard Rock gehört dieser Abend schon jetzt zu den Pflichtterminen des Jahres.
Nach dem aktuellen, selbstbetitelten Album „Alter Bridge“ zieht es die US-Amerikaner wieder auf die europäischen Bühnen. Die neue „What Lies Within Tour“ bringt nicht nur frisches Material mit, sondern auch jede Menge Klassiker aus über 20 Jahren Bandgeschichte. Songs wie „Blackbird“, „Metalingus“, „Rise Today“ oder „Isolation“ dürften ebenso gesetzt sein wie neue Tracks des aktuellen Albums.
Alter Bridge / Credit Chuck Brueckmann
Die Verbindung zu Creed bleibt dabei weiterhin ein großes Thema. Gitarrist Mark Tremonti, Bassist Brian Marshall und Drummer Scott Phillips spielten bereits gemeinsam bei Creed, bevor sie 2004 mit Sänger und Gitarrist Myles Kennedy Alter Bridge gründeten. Aus dem Post-Grunge-Sound von Creed entwickelte sich eine deutlich härtere und technisch anspruchsvollere Band. Gerade die Kombination aus Tremontis messerscharfen Riffs und Kennedys außergewöhnlicher Stimme macht Alter Bridge bis heute zu einer Ausnahmeerscheinung im modernen Rock.
Interessant bleibt dabei auch die aktuelle Situation rund um Creed. Während Creed zuletzt wieder gemeinsam unterwegs waren, läuft Alter Bridge parallel weiter. Viele Fans sehen genau darin die Stärke der Musiker. Beide Bands bedienen unterschiedliche Facetten ihres Sounds. In Fanforen wird immer wieder betont, wie wichtig Alter Bridge für die musikalische Weiterentwicklung der ehemaligen Creed-Mitglieder geworden sind. :contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2}
Das Konzert in Bremen findet im Pier 2 statt. Die Location gehört seit Jahren zu den beliebtesten Konzertorten im Norden. Rund 3.500 Besucher passen in die Halle direkt am Hafen. Die Sicht ist fast überall gut, der Sound meist druckvoll und klar. Für Rock- und Metal-Konzerte bietet die Halle genau die richtige Atmosphäre.
Anfahrt zum Pier 2 Bremen
Adresse:
Pier 2 Bremen
Gröpelinger Fährweg 6
28237 BremenMit dem Auto erreichst du die Halle über die A27 oder A1. Vor Ort gibt es Parkmöglichkeiten im Umfeld der Waterfront Bremen.
Mit öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln geht es ebenfalls unkompliziert:
- Ab Bremen Hauptbahnhof mit der Straßenbahnlinie 3 oder Buslinie 26 Richtung Walle/Überseestadt.
- Haltestelle „Use Akschen“ oder „Waterfront“.
- Von dort wenige Minuten Fußweg.
Einlass ist laut Veranstalter gegen 18:30 Uhr, Konzertbeginn um 19:30 Uhr.
Tickets und Preise
Stehplatztickets liegen aktuell zwischen etwa 55 und 60 Euro plus Gebühren. Einige Anbieter nennen Preise ab 45 Euro in frühen Kategorien oder Sonderaktionen. Wer die Band sehen will, sollte nicht zu lange warten. Die Nachfrage für die Deutschlandtermine ist hoch.
Dass Alter Bridge nach über zwei Jahrzehnten weiterhin Hallen dieser Größe füllen, überrascht kaum. Die Band hat sich über Jahre eine extrem treue Fanbasis erspielt. Live gelten Kennedy und Tremonti weiterhin als eines der stärksten Gitarren- und Vocal-Duos der Rockszene.
Auch auf Rock-Music.net gab es bereits mehrfach Berichte rund um Alter Bridge, Myles Kennedy und die Projekte der Musiker. Besonders die Verbindung zwischen Alter Bridge, Slash featuring Myles Kennedy und den Soloarbeiten von Tremonti sorgt seit Jahren für Gesprächsstoff in der Szene.
Alter Bridge / Credit Chuck Brueckmann
Wer auf große Refrains, technische Gitarrenarbeit und intensive Liveshows steht, bekommt in Bremen eines der Rock-Highlights des Jahres serviert.
Weitere Infos zur Band:
www.alterbridge.com
www.myleskennedy.comDanke für´s Lesen. Punkt.
Der Beitrag Alter Bridge zurück auf Tour erschien zuerst auf Rock-Music.net – Live, laut, legendär!.
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The Titanic Orphans: The True Story of Michel Marcel Navratil
The Titanic Orphan Story That Shocked the World: The True Story of Michel Marcel Navratil
The ocean was silent that night, but not empty. Somewhere between the freezing water and the fading lights of the Titanic, a father made a choice that would echo for a lifetime. Two small children, wrapped in fear and confusion, were lowered into the unknown. One of them was only three years old. His name was Michel. This Titanic orphan story remains one of the most emotional survival accounts from 1912.
The story of Michel Marcel Navratil is one of the most emotional and mysterious chapters of the Titanic tragedy. When the RMS Titanic struck the iceberg on April 14, 1912, chaos spread quickly across the ship. Among the passengers was a man traveling under a false name, carrying a secret that would only be revealed days later.
The Last Goodbye
As the situation became desperate, Michel’s father understood that survival would not be his fate. In a moment of clarity, he placed his two sons, Michel and Edmond, into Lifeboat D. The children were too young to understand what was happening. They only knew they were being separated from the only familiar face in a sea of strangers.
Before letting them go, he whispered words that would stay with Michel for the rest of his life:
“My child, when your mother comes for you, tell her that I loved her very much.”
That was the last time Michel ever saw his father. As the lifeboat drifted away, the Titanic’s lights slowly faded into the darkness, taking with them the man who had saved their lives.
The Titanic Orphan Story of the Two Brothers
When the rescue ship Carpathia arrived in New York, the two boys were safe—but completely alone. They spoke only French, carried no identification, and could not explain who they were. Newspapers quickly picked up their story, calling them “The Titanic Orphans.”
Their photographs spread across the world. The image of two lost children, survivors of one of history’s greatest disasters, captured the attention of millions. No one knew their names. No one knew their past. For days, they remained a mystery.
A Hidden Truth Revealed
Behind the tragedy was a deeper story. Michel’s father had taken the children from their mother during a custody dispute. Traveling under a false identity, he boarded the Titanic hoping to start a new life in America.
Fate had other plans. After the disaster, their real identities were finally uncovered. Their mother, still in France, recognized them from newspaper photos and made the journey to reclaim her children.
A Life After the Darkness
Michel Marcel Navratil would grow up carrying the memory of that night. He became a professor of philosophy and lived a long life, often reflecting on the moment that defined his childhood.
Despite surviving one of the most tragic events in history, he rarely spoke with bitterness. Instead, his story stands as a quiet reminder of love, sacrifice, and the fragile line between loss and survival.
Watch the rare 1994 interview where Michel recalls the final moments with his father.
Why This Story Still Matters
The story of the Titanic Orphans continues to resonate because it is deeply human. It is not just about a ship or a disaster. It is about a father’s final act, two children lost in a foreign world, and the hope that somehow, against all odds, they would be found again.
In the vast history of the Titanic, many stories have been told. But few carry the same quiet weight as this one. A goodbye in the dark. A promise carried across the ocean. And two children who survived to tell the story.
Explore deeper meanings in literature like
Annabel Lee,
The Raven,
or The Tell-Tale Heart.Listen to the sounds of the shadows. The official Edgar Allan Poets playlist—the perfect companion for dark tales.
Some fears were never buried.
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Wycked Angel share video for power ballad “The Beat of My Heart”
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The Zac Schulze Gang head out on headline UK tour in 2027
If you’ve been keeping an eye on the UK blues rock scene lately, you’ll know that The Zac Schulze Gang are currently on an absolute tear. Fresh from a sold-out show at London’s Islington Garage and bagging the “Young Artist of the Year” gong at the UK Blues Awards for the second year running, the … Continue reading The Zac Schulze Gang head out on headline UK tour in 2027 -
“A Feast for the Flies” — Tom Waits Joins Forces with Massive Attack for Protest Song “Boots on the Ground”
Now who the hell are these federal pricks?
Hiding in the senate like a bloated ass tick
Air conditioned fuckstick loafers
Sittin in a room full of army posters
Day and night has been beaten thin as tin by the hammer of the bulletin, and the Republic now lives by interruption: sirens, chants, the cracked loudspeaker, the bright wound of the smartphone screen. Grief is scarcely granted the dignity of silence before it is numbered, argued over, and folded into the next alarm. In the streets, the people carry both fury and fatigue; in the cells and under official hands, the vulnerable are made to pay in blood. We go on half-awake, half-shattered, learning the bitter modern labor of keeping one heart open while history tramples past it.
Massive Attack’s Boots on the Ground, their new collaboration with Tom Waits, arrives with the sort of timing that makes one suspicious of history’s sense of rhythm. It is the Bristol group’s first new music since 2020, and Waits’s first new recording since 2011’s Bad As Me.
Massive Attack have long understood pressure, how to make atmosphere feel civic as well as emotional, and here they build a setting less like a stage than a zone of occupation. Waits enters that terrain with a voice that remains one of the great weather systems in American music: corroded, amused, biblical, faintly obscene. His presence changes the song’s temperature. When he sings of men yielding themselves to “The Masters of War,” the Dylan phrase lands like a judgement that has outlived every administration that might have preferred to treat it as period language. The track’s force lies partly in its patience. It advances with the grim logic of machinery already in motion, a procession of grief for the violent death of the Great Society.
The lyrics turn war into a grotesque pageant of lust, obedience, class contempt, and mechanical slaughter. Soldiers are rendered as expendable bodies, crude instruments for distant men in comfort, while patriotism curdles into butchery. By the end, ideology has burned away, leaving only death, debris, and the remnants of uniform. This is Tom Waits at his finest.
Waits, characteristically, frames the release with mordant clarity: “One day many years ago, I accepted an invitation from Massive Attack to collaborate. Their long release delay never worried me. Today, as in all of mankind’s yesterdays, guarantees this type of song will never go out of style. Man’s folly of fiascos is a feast for the flies. Hence, the B side of Massive Attack’s upcoming 12-inch The Fly features my appreciation for the winged nuisance.”
The accompanying film, made by Massive Attack with American photographer thefinaleye, gives the single its historical field. The montage draws on footage and research connected to protests against ICE raids, the militarization of domestic force, and state authoritarianism, citing organizations including the A.C.L.U., the American Immigration Council, and FactCheck.org. In another artist’s hands, such apparatus might have hardened into homework. Here it sharpens the song’s moral contour. It is a chilling look at what we hath wrought.
Watch below:
Boots on the Ground is a grounding spirituality of sorts, when the modern state of society prefers spectacle, repetition, and fatigue. Massive Attack and Waits answer with a dirge for the public square, and with a warning delivered in a voice rough enough to sound like the nation’s conscience.
Massive Attack is embracing an eco-conscious vinyl pressing and packaging process for this record to leave a smaller carbon footprint. This ‘EcoSonic’ edition will be 180g vinyl in red, white, and blue. Pre-order it HERE.
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Premiere: TAILOR MADE REJECTS ‘Face of Adversity’
Tailor Made Rejects are an Alt Rock band storming from Australia. The group consists of long-time musical nomads Ryan Valley and Jester Batt, alongside hometown heroes Zakory ‘The Zigg’ Cutmore and Val Morrigan. Together, they have joined forces to craft their intense sound landscape based on raw guitars and catchy ear-worm melodies. Their new single […] -
INTERVIEW: FRANK TURNER Talks Touring, Song writing & Staying Grounded
Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls When two genre-defining acts collide, you don’t just get a tour—you get an event. In 2026, Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls and Bowling For Soup are joining forces for the Bowling My Bones Australian tour, a co-headline run that promises equal parts heart, humour, and high-energy chaos.
From intimate, fist-in-the-air singalongs to full-blown pop punk party anthems, both bands have built their reputations on connection—turning every stage into something closer to a shared experience than a performance. Now, with a run of dates stretching across the country and a grand finale locked in for Fremantle, Australian fans are set to witness a pairing that feels as natural as it does long overdue.
We caught up with Frank to talk about the tour, the pressures of life on the road, the ever-evolving process of song writing, and his ongoing support for grassroots music and independent venues through his Lost Evenings Festival series.
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JUNGLE ROT – Cruel Face Of War Releasing On May 15th, via Unique Leader Records
From Unique Leader Records Facebook:
Watch New video (Apocalyptic Dawn)
https://youtu.be/mCEf1kH6_6IOut May 15th
Cruel Face Of War – Track List:
- Intro
- Apocalyptic Dawn
- Cruel Face of War
- Maniacal
- Suffer in Silence
- Radicalized
- Blade of Betrayal
- When the Elders Rise
- Horrors Vile (featuring David Ingram of Benediction)
- Legacy of the Damned
- Rot Riffs
- Hollow Husk
Dave Matrise (vocals, guitars) comments:
“Let’s start off by saying what an amazing accomplishment it is to hit 12 releases in my career. Never would I think I’d still be doing this 30+ years later. I guess be careful what you wish for. I’m very grateful to all of our fans that have supported us for so many years and for never giving up on us. To my bandmates for all of their hard work and dedication to me and JRot over all these years.
“‘Cruel Face Of War’ will not disappoint. It’s full of crushing grooves and violent hooks that will surely break anyone’s neck.”
Preorder now from our webstore – ORCD.CO/CRUELFACEOFWAR
