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KANSAS - Today a Phoenix

Drummer Phil Ehart, who brought the original Kansas line-up together in 1973, is as so often on tour with his band. Nevertheless, the 65-year-old finds time for a half-hour chat about the current Kansas album "The Prelude Implicit", which heralds the end of a 16-year studio break, before the sound check begins in Wendover/Nevada. It's not just a work of contract fulfilment, on the contrary: the band is fully motivated again - which is why "The Prelude Implicit" can't be classified as a farewell gift, but as the beginning of a new era.

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URIAH HEEP - Remember the time

The Uriah Heep veteran Mick Box is a humorous person on and off stage. No matter when and where I met or spoke to the musician personally in the last thirty years, he always had time for shakehands and a nice anecdote or two. Even if you criticize his band, he stays cool. Meanwhile he even reacts calmly when his counterpart talks about Ken Hensley, Heep's former mastermind. After all, it's now also a pleasant experience for him when Ken - like last year in Moscow - returns to the stage with his old band for a gig.

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The prisoner of Belfast - VAN MORRISON would rather be a veterinarian...

It's been over 30 years since the little, corpulent man spoke to a German magazine. Not because he has something against the country where he earned his first musical spurs in the early 60s (with the Monarchs), but simply because he doesn't like interviews. Not at all.

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Too good to be brave - MEAT LOAF says goodbye...

The songs were written as hoped by "Bat Out Of Hell" mastermind Jim Steinman. Among them also the opener "Who Needs The Young" which is questionable at least among rock fans. On the interjection that the track is strangely placed in the first place, as it seems more like a musical number, you can feel how the elemental force breaks out of Meat Loaf, which you painfully miss at some points of the album. "This is the first song Jim ever wrote. It was to be recorded first for 'Bat', but did not fit into the songframe.

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Music From Time And Space Vol. 62

MARILLION - The New Kings (IV): Why Is Nothing Ever True? (3:10)
Album: FEAR - Fuck Everyone And Run (2016)
Label/Distribution: earMUSIC/Edel

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Play Busuki! - THEODORE from Athens presents his brilliant album debut

Theodore never thinks while composing about what his listeners expect when they hear his music. "I play on it when I have an idea in my head," says the 24-year-old Greek, "and in these moments it's all about creating atmosphere. I don't like classical pop music like that. My stuff is more theatrical or cinematic. Three minute radio pieces are not for me." "It Is But It's Not" is the cryptic title of the first "real" album of the Athenian prodigy, after it threw the exclusively digital fragment "7" into the world in 2012.

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The Eighth Symphony - DGM perform brilliant passages on "The Passage

It only takes a few moments until the band DGM is named and the bow to Symphony X is made. "Of course we were proud that their guitarist Michael Romeo played the lead guitar for our new song 'Dogma'", DGM bassist Andrea Arcangeli makes clear. But especially with their meanwhile eighth album "The Passage" the Italian band certainly doesn't bake small rolls anymore. Symphony X are certainly still a great influence, but the songs of guitarist and band boss Simone Mularoni are often very genre-typical, but they can certainly compete with the best tracks of Romero's New Jersey group.

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It could have gone down in the pants - COOGANS BLUFF present a retro highlight

With "Flying To The Stars", the Berlin/Leipzig quintet Coogans Bluff has released a new studio album, which is retro in an excellent and unusual way, but does not swim on the current retro wave.

eclipsed: To fall right into the house with the door: Is the new album "Flying To The Stars" your best album so far? If so, why? If not, why not?

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THE PINEAPPLE THIEF - Enduring perseverance

The George Hotel in Hamburg. The lobby exudes the flair of the British Empire, a London club in Victorian times. Bruce Soord, mastermind of The Pineapple Thief, is ready for an interview a few days after the Brexit referendum and just before the England vs Iceland European Championship round of sixteen. There is a lot to tell about the new album "Your Wilderness" - and about football and the Brexit.

eclipsed: Are you a football fan?

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The eclipsed check - The 150 greatest rock anthems of all time

The definition of what a rock anthem is should be clear - but in fact it's not always. Sometimes rock anthem and rock ballad overlap. But the unmistakable thing about the rock anthem - the name says it all - is its hymnal, often solemn character.

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