Flashback 2024 – Die Feinheiten

Michael Haifls

Top 30

WITHERFALL – Sounds Of The Forgotten
HAVEN OF ECHOES – Memento Vivere
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – Wild God
THE CURE – Songs Of A Lost World
TOM LIWA – Primzahlen aus dem Bardo

SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM – Of The Last Human Being
40 WATT SUN – Little Weight
SHUMAUN – Opposing Mirrors
SATAN – Songs In Crimson
OPETH – The Last Will And Testament

BRUCE DICKINSON – The Mandrake Project
DEEP PURPLE – =1
FERRIS & SYLVESTER – Otherness
GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR – No Title As Of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead
GRENDEL’S SŸSTER – Katabasis Into The Abaton
JULIE CHRISTMAS – Ridiculous And Full Of Blood
LEVIATHAN – Stories Of Imperceptible Light
NEAL MORSE & THE RESONANCE – No Hill For A Climber
SAVAGE OATH – Divine Battle
VON HERTZEN BROTHERS – In Murmuration

DEMON BITCH – Master Of The Games
EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN – RAMPEN (apm: alien pop music)
INNER STRENGTH – Daydreaming In Moonlight
JUDAS PRIEST – Invincible Shield
PATRICK LEONARD – It All Comes Down To Mood
LOUISE PATRICIA CRANE – Netherworld
MARCO GLÜHMANN – A Fragile Present
NESTOR – Teenage Rebel
RITUAL – The Story Of Mr. Bogd – Part 1
THE CHRONICLES OF FATHER ROBIN – The Songs & Tales Of Airoea – Book III
[  alphabetisch  ] 

Späte 2023er Jubelfreuden:
THE BATHERS – Sirenesque
UNIVERS ZERO – Lueur
NOSPŪN – Opus

Sensationelle Auferstehung:
VOYAGER-X – Magic

Sensationeller Remix:
GROBSCHNITT Solar Music REMIX 2024

Sensationelle Veröffentlichung:
MILES DAVIS – Birth Of The Blue

Deutschsprachige Geilheit:
INTERNATIONAL MUSIC – Endless Rüttenscheid

Melodic-Metal-ReRelease:
MARCHELLO – Destiny

Prog Metal-Underground Re-Release
INTENSE CONFESSION – Whispers Of Fear/Into The Forbidden

45 RPM Vinyl-ReRelease:
DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES – Abandoned Luncheonette
DAVID CROSBY – If I Could Only Remember My Name
YES – The Yes Album

UHQR Vinyl Records:
BILL EVANS TRIO – Sunday At The Village Vanguard
BILL EVANS TRIO – Waltz For Debby

Große Jazz-ReRelease Wiedersehensfreude:
LOU DONALDSON – Midnight Creeper
JOHN COLTRANE – Giant Steps
JACKIE McLEAN – Action Action Action
DONALD BYRD – Byrd’s Eye View

Und die durften auch nicht unterschlagen werden:
IHSAHN – Ihsahn
MONO – Oath
KAMASI WASHINGTON – Fearless Movement

Marcus Köhlers

Top 30

HIGH ON FIRE – Cometh The Storm
MELVINS – Tarantula Heart
BLOOD INCANTATION – Absolute Elsewhere
TY SEGALL – Three Bells
CHELSEA WOLFE – She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She

KIM GORDON – The Collective
MANNEQUIN PUSSY – I Got Heaven
THE JESUS LIZARD – Rack
SHELLAC – To The Trains
KERRY KING – From Hell I Rise

Gerne gehört:
CHAT PILE – Cool World
DIE NERVEN – Wir Waren Hier
INTER ARMA – New Heaven
JACK WHITE – No Name
JON SPENCER – Sick Of Being Sick!
KIM DEAL – Nobody Loves You More
KNOCKED LOOSE – You Won`t Go Before You Have To
LAETITIA SADIER – Rooting For Love
LUCIFER – V
MARILYN MANSON – One Assassination Under God – Chapter 1
MARY TIMONY – Untame The Tiger
METZ – Up On Gravity Hill
ORANSSI PAZUZU – Muuntautaja
PISSED JEANS – Half Divorced
REDD KROSS – Redd Kross
THE LORD – Worship: Bernard Herrmann Tribute
THE OBSESSED – Gilded Sorrow
THE SMILE – Wall Of Eyes + Cutouts
THURSTON MOORE – Flow Critical Lucidity
TOUCHE AMORE – Spiral In A Straight Line

Gerne wiedergehört:
JOHN CALE – Paris 1919
OASIS – Definately Maybe
SLINT – Tweez
SODOM – Tapping The Source
THE FLUID – Roadmouth + Glue

Gerne live gesehen:
THE JESUS AND THE MARY CHAIN – Heidelberg
METALLICA – München
KERRY KING – Enschede
MR. BUNGLE/OXBOW/SPOTLIGHTS – Zürich
JUDAS PRIEST/SAXON – Berlin
TY SEGALL – Berlin
AC/DC – Hockenheim + Nürnberg
KING DUNN – Köln
CHELSEA WOLFE – Zürich
METZ – Zürich

Gerne gelesen:
visions.de
rockhard.de
metalsucks.net
pitchfork.com

Harald Pfeiffers

Top 30

AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS – Cartoon Darkness
CEDRIC BURNSIDE – Hill Country Love
NEW SKELETAL FACES – Until The Night
THE COLD STARES – The Southern
THE GEORGIA THUNDERBOLTS – Rise Above It All
SNOWY WHITE – Unfinished Business
THE CURE – Songs Of A Lost World
DIAMONDS HADDER – Beyond The Breakers
LORD GOBLIN – Lord Goblin
24/7 DIVA HEAVEN – Gift

BLITZKRIEG – Blitzkrieg
JOE BONAMASSA – Live At The Hollywood Bowl – with orchestra
DARKEST HOURS – Perpetual | Terminal
ERADICATOR – The Paradox
GIANT DWARFS AND BLACK HOLES – Echo On Death Of Narcissus
HARLEM LAKE – The Mirrored Mask
Warren Haynes – Million Voices Whisper
ROBERT JON & THE WRECK – Red Moon Rising
LORD BUFFALO – Holus Bolus
MINDLESS SINNER – Metal Merchants
OCCULT WITCHES – Sorrow’s Pyre
RIFFORIA – Ghost Is A Woman
RUBY ATE THE FIG – Gilg
SEASICK STEVE – A Trip A Stumble A Fall Down On Your Knees
SISSIES – Cockroach Swing
SNAKEBITE – Cobra Crew
QUINN SULLVIAN – Salvation
[  alphabetisch  ] 

Re-Releases (Rangliste)
THIN LIZZY – Live And Dangerous At Hammersmith 16 Nov 1976
THIN LIZZY – 1976 (Boxset)
UFO – Lights Out (2024 Remaster)

Jürgen Tschamlers

Top 30

BOBBIE DAZZLE – Fandabidozi
HANDS OF GORO –  Hands Of Goro
STAR RIDER – Outta Time
ATROPHY – Asylum
BEAUX GRIS GRIS AND THE APOCALYPSE – Hot Nostalgia Radio

ATTACKER – The God Particle
CASTLE – One Knight Stands: Live In N.Y.
DOKKEN – Fighting Tooth And Nail (At The King Biscuit Flower Hour)
EXODUS – British Disaster! Live At The Astoria-The Battle Of ´89
FAST EDDIE CLARKE – Make my Day-The R`n`R Story of Fast Eddie Clarke
HALL AFLAME – Amplifire
IGNITOR – Horns And Hammers
JENNER –  Prove Them Wrong
KERRY KING – From Hell I Rise
KNIGHTS OF THE REALM – Darker Than Leather
LOVERBOY – Live in`82
MORBID SAINT – Swallowed By Hell
NEW HORIZON – Conquerors
RHETT FORRESTER – The Canadian Years
ROCK GODDESS – London, BBC FM Broadcast 1983
ROMEO’S DAUGHTER – Slipstream
SAINT – Immortalizer
THE DEAD DAISIES – Light` Em Up
THE RUNAWAYS – We`ll Love You Till It Hurts
TYGERS OF PAN TANG – Live Blood
TROOPS OF DOOM – A Mass To The Grotesque
VAIN – Disintegrate Together
WARBABIES – Vault
[  alphabetisch  ] 

Newcomer:
MIDNIGHT RACE – Heavy Metal Owls
LEATHERHEAD – Leatherhead
IMMORTAL SŸNN – Hellspawn
DESTRUKT – The Ascent
WRITHEN HILT – Ancient Sword Cult

Re-Releases:
WARRIOR SOUL – The Space Age Playboys (30th Anniversary Edition)
OBSESSION – Carnival Of Lies (Vinyl)
OBSESSION – Order Of Chaos (Vinyl)
NIGHT DEMON – Curse Of The Damned + 2 Bonus Tracks (Vinyl)

Live Highlights:
(Alphapetic order)
ATROPHY – Oberhausen
ARMORED SAINT – Wacken Festival
BEAUX GRIS GRIS AND THE APOCALYPSE – Rüsselsheim
CASTLE – Karlsruhe
CHERIE CURRIE – Den Haag
TEMTRIS – Tilburg
WINGS OF STEEL – Neurod

Meistgehörte Songs:
BEAUX GRIS GRIS AND THE APOCALYPSE – The Runaway
WILDE STARR – Immortal
XYZ – Inside Out
LION – Forgotten Sons
LA CHINGA –  Light It Up
CHRIS ISAAK – Wicked Game
GORDON LIGHTFOOT – Sundown
GORDON LIGHTFOOT – Early Morning Rain
ROUGH CUTT – Queen Of Seduction
ATTAXE – Pedal To The Metal
WARBABIES – Watch Me Bleed
BOSTON – Higher Power
DOKKEN – In The Middle

Wiederentdeckte Perlen aus der Sammlung:
STEVE WALSH – Schemer Dreamer
DOKKEN – From Conception-Live 1981
FOGHAT – Nightshift
TEAZE – Tour Of Japan
CAGE – Darker Than Black
BOW WOW – Holy Expedition-Live
XYZ – Take hat You Can…Live
HAVOC – The Grip

Bücher:
Heroes Of The Metal Underground
Heavy Sounds In The West

Und sonst so?
Die üblichen Verdächtigen haben sich auch im Jahre 2024 als Volltrottel und Arschlöcher geoutet.
Vinylpreise sind auf Kotzniveau.
Die Bootleg-Schwemme aus Portugal gehört gestoppt.
Die „Ist Megarar und Geil-Idioten“ bleiben weiterhin lächerlich und haben immer noch nicht verstanden, dass „rar“ nicht grundsätzlich musikalisch gut ist.
Die mistige EU macht den kleinen Labels und Distributer das Leben noch schwerer mit den beschissenen GPSR Regelungen. Fazit: Platten/CDs werden teurer.
Ich muss meinen Konsum von Veröffentlichungen einschränken und das Geld besser verleben

Less Leßmeisters

Top 30

BLOOD INCANTATION – Absolute Elsewhere
CRUSHER – Uprising
DAYFLY’S DIARY – See The Light
DIAMONDS HADDER – Beyond The Breakers
FOLTERKAMMER – Weibermacht
IHSAHN – Ihsahn
MISTRA – Waltz Of Death
SAMSAS TRAUM – Kalk
SEVEN STEPS TO THE GREEN DOOR – The?Truth
VANDEN PLAS – The Empyrean Equation Of The Long Lost Things
[  alphabetisch  ] 

ATLANTIS DRIVE – Atlantis Drive
BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION – V
BORKNAGAR – Fall
CHAPEL OF DISEASE – Echoes Of Light
CULT OF SCARECROW – In Nomine Filiorum
DEMON – Invincible
EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN – RAMPEN
FARO – Nu-Man
HAMMER KING – König und Kaiser
HARPAZO – The Crucible
IOTUNN – Kinship
JULIE CHRISTMAS – Ridiculous And Full Of Blood
LEVIATHAN – Stories Of Imperceptible Light
LORD GOBLIN – Lord Goblin
LUCIFER – V
MANTICORA – Mycelium
RAGE – Afterlifelines
SATAN – Songs In Crimson
THE BEAUTY OF GEMINA – Songs Of Homecoming
WITHERFALL – Sounds Of The Forgotten
[  alphabetisch  ] 

MAINSTREAM UND SPASS DABEI
BETH HART – You Still Got Me
BRUCE DICKINSON – The Mandrake Project
DAVID GILMOUR – Luck And Strange
JUDAS PRIEST – Invincible Shild
MARILYN MANSON – One Assassination Under God – Chapter 1
NEW MODEL ARMY – Unbroken
NIGHTWISH – Yesterwynde

THE SHORT STRAWS
JANUS – Sonne (EP)
CHAOS INSIDE – Violence In B-Minor (EP)

Sinnvolle RE-RELEASES & FORGOTTEN GEMS
INFERIOR – Two Faced World
RED RAVEN / PROPHET – Future Fortunes

TWO X-MAS ALBUMS TO RULE THEM ALL
MAJESTICA – A Christmas Carol
FLAKE – Flake feiert Weihnachten

SONGS OF GLORY TO LAST LONGER THAN 2024
BLACKBITCHFAMILY – Helmsman (Single)
CRIMSON GLORY – Triskaideka
HARPAZO – Two Witnesses

COVERART FOR THE DAMNED
FOLTERKAMMER – Weibermacht
WITHERFALL – Sounds of the Forgotten
SAMSAS TRAUM – Pussy Supremacy
ATROPHY – Asylum

YES I WAS LIVE
IRON FEST
JANUS
ROCK HARD FESTIVAL
ROCK THE FOREST
SAMSAS TRAUM & ASP
SICKING HIGH ROCK
STORM CRUSHER FESTIVAL

EYE TO EYE
FURIOSA: A Mad Max Saga
ALIEN: Romulus

High Hopes for 2025
CRIMSON GLORY Comeback Album
RA’S DAWN Reunion Album
THE BEAUTYFUL END OF LORD VIGOs DEAD MUSIC All-In-One-Album

Sir Lord Dooms

Top 30

Nachtmystium – Blight Privilege
Scald – Ancient Doom Metal
Darkthrone – IT beckons US all
Blood Incantation – Absolute elsewhere
Sentry – Sentry

Perchta – D’muata
Vemod – The deepening
Nocturnus AD – Unicursal
Coltre – To watch with Handy, to Touch with eyes
Trelldom – By the shadows

Vendel – Out in the Fields
The Obsessed – Gilded sorrow
Warlord – Free Spirit soar
Seasons Of The Wolf – Orna verum
Curse The Son – Delirium
Crank – Mean Filth riders
Kerasfora – Six nights beyond the serpent’s threshold
Invernoir – Aimin’ for oblivion
Blissful Stream – Fighting for the Cross
Tyr – Battle ballads

Jupiter Cyclops – Age of Ufonaut
Angel Sword – World Fighter
Whoredom Rife – Den vrede Markt
Friends of Hell – God damned you to hell
Daevar – Amber eyes
Castle Rat – Into the realms
Exhorder – Defectum omnium
Grand Magus – Sunraven
Kanonenfieber – Die Urkatastrophe
Writhen Hilt – Ancient Sword cult

Markus Gps’

Top 30

1 WITHERFALL – Sounds Of The Forgotten
2 LEVIATHAN – Stories Of Imperceptible Lights
3 AIWAZ – Darrkh… It is!
4 ROSALIE CUNNINGHAM – To Shoot Another Day
5 MYRATH – Karma

6 VOLA – Friend Of A Phantom
7 SEVENTH CRYSTAL – Entity
8 SAVAGE OATH – Divine Battle
9 NESTOR – Teenage Rebel
10 MONKEY3 – Welcome To The Machine

BLACK DIAMONDS – Destination Paradise
DEEP PURPLE – =1
HAVEN OF ECHOES – Memento Vivere
INNER STRENGTH – Daydreaming In Moonlight
OPETH – The Last Will And Testament
SHUMAUN – Opposing Mirrors
SUNBURST – Manifesto
TIERRA SANTA – Un Viaje Épico
TURBULENCE – Binary Dream
VON HERTZEN BROTHERS – In Murmuration
[  alphabetisch  ] 

Leibhaftige Highlights (chronologisch)
TIERRA SANTA (Sevilla / ESP)
GLACIER (Göppingen)
RECEIVER / SOLITARY SABRED / DOMINE & ARRAYAN PATH (Open The Gates / Nikosia/CYP)
CHANDELIER (Stuttgart)
WINGS OF STEEL & SAVAGE OATH (Keep It True / Lauda-Königshofen)
OVERHEAD (Rüsselsheim)
TREAT (Rock&Loc Festival / Markt Wald)
CALIGULA’S HORSE & THE HIRSCH EFFEKT (Köln)
FIFTH ANGEL (Trübbach / CH)
A KEW’S TAG/CRIMSON GLORY & THE ANCHORET (Prog Power Europe / Baarlo/NL)
ANGRA & WITHERFALL (Rorschach / CH)
NESTOR (Memmingen)
ALKALOID (Stuttgart)
ROSALIE CUNNINGHAM (Geislingen)

Tanzflächenreißer des Jahres
SEVENTH CRYSTAL – Mayflower

Film des Jahres
Großes Kino gibt es nur auf Bühne und Tonträger

Frohes Fest und einen “Guten Rutsch” ins neue Jahr wünschen Euch

Harald, Jürgen, Less, Sascha,
Marcus, Markus und Michael

im Namen des gesamten SaitenKult-Teams!