Review: Hartmann – Twenty Times Colder Sonic 11/ Pride & Joy Music (September 19th 2025) Reviewer – Grant Foster The good thing about this job, is that most of the time, the bands I get to review, I have never heard of before. It opens my eyes to other styles of rock music, that otherwise […]
Review: Hartmann – Get Over It Sonic11/ Pride & Joy Music (September 16th, 2022) Reviewer: David Pearce The German rock legend Oliver Hartmann is back with his band Hartmann whose tenth album is called ‘Get Over It’. Hartmann himself plays guitar and is the lead singer, Mario Reck is his fellow guitarist, Armin Donderer is […]
Oliver Hartmann, well known as singer and guitarist is considered with his band Hartmann since their debut ’Out In The Cold’ (2005) as one of the best modern German Rock-/Hardrock acts. He’s also known as part of metal-megaseller Avantasia, projects as Rock Meets Classic, ex-At Vance singer and as front man of the German Pink Floyd […]
Review: Hartmann – 15 Pearls And Gems Pride & Joy Music (April 17th 2020) Reviewer: David Pearce Hartmann are a band formed 15 years ago by Oliver Hartmann, a leading light in the German rock scene. As well as Hartmann, he has been the singer for rock band Avantasia and lead singer for Echoes, a […]
The history of Hartmann started in 2005 with the debut ‘Out In The Cold‘, often reviewed as ‘Album of the month’ in a wide range of rock magazines all over the world. With their successful followers ‘Home‘ (2006), ‘3‘ (2009), ‘Balance‘ (2012), the live & acoustic DVD/CD ‘Handmade‘ (2008) and the compilation ‘The Best Is […]
After numerous tours as part of Avantasia, Rock Meets Classic and as mastermind of the successful Pink Floyd Tribute Echoes the exceptional singer and guitarist Oliver Hartmann now presents his new fifth studio album ‘Shadows & Silhouettes‘ with Hartmann after nearly four years break since the latest release ‘Balance‘. The new album will be released […]
The Melodic & Hardrock Festival – to be held at the famous Rockfabrik club in Ludwigsburg/Germany (near Stuttgart) will be a two-day-event for the first time. The 7th edition of the festival introduces an impressive international line-up with some artists who haven’t played in Germany for a long time or even have never performed here before! Besides the […]
Starting off this week with an interview with Fredrik Bergengren of Colorstone, and playing a couple of tracks from their album ‘Into The Garden’ 3 play is new music from Redrum & Reason plus a track from Hartmann. The 2 From 1 is courtesy of Humbucker, and finishing off with some Dirty White Boy. Tune […]
A good mixture for you this week in a packed 60 minutes. Kicking the show off is new music from Trail Of Murder. The 3-Play consists of Tattoo Rodeo, Blue Tears & Doro. A new section next, 2 from 1 with the very first band to feature – Tango Down. The last two blocks of […]
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