What was already a standout moment of this year’s Wacken Open Air, the world’s largest metal festival, turned into something even bigger when Michael Schenker pulled a surprise no one saw coming. After delivering a fierce ‘My Years With UFO‘ (review here) set to tens of thousands of attendees on Thursday night, the architect of […]
Time To Rock Festival have announced the first bands and released the tickets to Time To Rock Festival 8-10 July 2023 with a pre-party on July 7. We start out with legendary guitar wizzard Michael Schenker and his MSG. From Jacksonville, Florida comes the mighty southern rock band Molly Hatchet and from the UK the […]
The rock anthem ‘A King Has Gone’, taken from MSG’s new album ‘Universal’, and its intro ‘Calling Baal’, also available on ‘Universal’, both have a special significance: The track, sung by Helloween frontman Michael Kiske, is a tribute to the immortal Ronnie James Dio, and in particular to his performance on the 1976 hard rock classic ‘Rainbow Rising‘. For this reason, Michael Schenker has brought together an original Rainbow rhythm section consisting […]
‘Emergency’ is the haunting opening track of MSG’s upcoming new studio album ‘Universal’. The first single comes along with an official music video, produced by Justin Griffiths. “‘Emergency’ is quite a complicated song with different rhythm’s but catchy at the same time. It’s fun to play and to listen to. Enjoy and Keep On Rocking”, Michael Schenker comments. Listen/stream/download ‘Emergency’: here ’Universal’ will be released on May 27th, 2022, via Atomic Fire Records and is available as Digipak CD (incl. 2 bonus tracks), colored vinyl, Earbook (CD incl. 2 bonus tracks) and digital album, […]
There are few rock guitarists on this planet who have had such a lasting influence on so many renowned musicians as Michael Schenker. With his outstandingly fluid style, inexhaustible wealth of ideas and instinctive feel for hooks and melodies, Michael Schenker is a living legend who, despite his longstanding and distinguished history, still impresses with his unflagging energy and […]
Now in its 5th year Stonedead is an outdoor, one day, one stage, monster of a festival where rock music reigns eternal. We place the rock fan experience at its core. The festival is organised by volunteers and created for music fans, Stonedead is a festival experience not to be missed. Stonedead Festival is carrying […]
Michael Schenker is proud to announce new UK tour dates for October 2021, in celebration of his 50th anniversary in music and his upcoming MSG studio album, ‘Immortal‘, due out on 29th January via Nuclear Blast. If this wasn’t enough, the queen of rock and metal Doro Pesch and her band will be playing every night as […]
Guitarist Michael Schenker has today revealed the artwork for the brand new MSG album, ‘Immortal‘ which is set to be released via Nuclear Blast on January 8, 2021. The cover artwork for Immortal, created by Zsofia Dankova. “We have a lot of guest musicians, who will undoubtedly help to make the album an exceptional success“, […]
Review: Michael Schenker Fest “Live” Tokyo in-akustik (March 2017) Reviewer: Dan Mann Unbelievably it’s 35 years since ‘One Night At Budokan‘ was released, and here we have Michael Schenker return to Japan, this time at The Tokyo International Forum Hall, accompanied by three vocalists who’ve made appearances on a plethora of MSG releases. The vocalists […]
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