Flashback 2025 – Die Feinheiten

Michael Haifls

Top 30

CEA SERIN – The World Outside
Satoko Fujii GEN – Altitude 1100 Meters
NOOR – Mother’s Guilty Pleasures Part One
GREEN CARNATION – A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores Of Melancholia
HELLOWEEN – Giants & Monsters

DREAM THEATER – Parasomnia
PAVLOV’S DOG – Wonderlust
ECHOLYN – TimeSilentRadio II / TimeSilentRadio vii
DAVID JUDSON CLEMMONS – Everything A War
EVERON – Shells

AMPLIFIER – Gargantuan
ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF – Iconoclasts
CHRIS CHEEK – Keepers Of The Eastern Door
DEFTONES – private music
DISCIPLINE – Breadcrumbs
FLAMING ROW – Keeper Of The Scriptures / Hüterin der Schriften
HAREM SCAREM – Chasing Euphoria
HOUSE OF ARTIFACTS – House Of Artifacts
IHLO – Legacy
IQ – Dominion
JASON BIELER & THE BARON VON BIELSKI ORCHESTRA – The Escapologist

JEFF TWEEDY – Twilight Override
JEROME SABBAGH – Stand Up!
LACRIMOSA – Lament
MARCO BERNARD – Moby Dick
NEAL MORSE – Never Been Down This Road
NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM – Le Sacre Du Soleil Invaincu
SPECIES – Changeling
STEVEN WILSON – The Overview
THEM – Psychedelic Enigma

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Späte 2024er Jubelfreuden:
ANTHONY WILSON – Hackensack West

UHQR Vinyl Records:
BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS – Exodus
BILL EVANS TRIO – Sunday At The Village Vanguard

One-Step Pressings:
THELONIOUS MONK – Brilliant Corners
TOM PETTY – Wildflowers

Mehr Metal gewünscht?
AQUILLA – Sentinels Of New Dawn
BLIZZEN – Metalectric
FER DE LANCE – Fires On The Mountainside
JOHAN LANGQUIST THE CASTLE – Johan Langquist The Castle
PAGAN ALTAR – Never Quite Dead
PARADOX – Mysterium
SACRED STEEL – Ritual Supremacy

Mehr Satoko?
SATOKO FUJII QUARTET – Burning Wick
SATOKO FUJII THIS IS IT! – Message
SATOKO FUJII TOKYO TRIO – Dream A Dream

Live-Alben
DER W – Akustik Tour – Live Im Admiralspalast
LONG DISTANCE CALLING – Live At Lichtburg
MONIKA ROSCHER BIGBAND – Witchy Activities Live
RUINSZU – Jazzisdead Live

Marcus Köhlers

Top 30

DEAFHEAVEN – Lonely People With Power
YEAR OF THE GOAT – Trivia Goddess
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE – This Consequence
CORONER – Dissonance Theory
ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF – Iconoclast

MESSA – The Spin
DEFTONES – Private Music
SPECIES – Changelings
WINO – Create Or Die
SWANS – Birthing

AGNOSTIC FRONT – Echoes In Eternity
ARCH ENEMY – Blood Dynasty
ARCHITECTS – The Sky, The Earth And All Between
DEADGUY – Near-Death Travel Services
DESTRUCTION – Birth Of Malice
KING PARROT – A Young Person`s Guide To King Parrot
MACHINE HEAD – Unatoned
MANTAR – Post Apocalyptic Depression
MOTORPSYCHO – Motorpsycho
REVOCATION – New Gods, New Masters
SCOUR – Scour
SODOM – The Arsonist
TESTAMENT – Para Bellum
VOID – Forbidden Morals
WHITECHAPEL – Hymns In Dissonance

Konzerte:
MARILYN MANSON – Zürich
PANTERA/POWER TRIP/KING PARROT – Zürich
SLOWDIVE – Wiesbaden
Y&T – Frankfurt/M
W.A.S.P., DISMEMBER, DIRKSCHNEIDER beim „Rock Hard Festival“
WHITECHAPEL – Heidelberg
SLIPKNOT – Frankfurt/M
SCORPIONS/JUDAS PRIEST/ALICE COOPER – Hannover
KREATOR – Heidelberg
GUNS N` ROSES/SEX PISTOLS – Luxemburg
W.A.S.P. – Stuttgart
AC/DC – Karlsruhe
BLAZE BAYLEY (Iron Maiden Set), DESTRUCTION, THE OBSESSED beim „KIT Rising“
MEGADETH/DISTURBED – München
HIGH ON FIRE/NECROT – Wiesbaden
TANKARD – Mörlenbach
DIRKSCHNEIDER, AXEL RUDI PELL, THUNDERMOTHER, GRAVE DIGGER beim „Knock Out Festival”

Harald Pfeiffers

Top 30

MESSA – The Spin
LARKIN POE – Bloom
L.A. WITCH – Doggod
PATRIARCHS IN BLACK – Home
WHISKEY MYERS – Whomp Whack Thunder
JONATHAN HULTEN – Eyes Of The Living Night
HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY – Scorched Earth
CAMMIE BEVERLY – House Of Grief
ROKETS – Bad Choices
BYGONE – Bygone

DEVON ALLMAN – The Blues Summit
BLACK MAGIC TREE – Terra
GREYSTONE CANYON – Something Borrowed…Something New
JANIS IAN – From Me To You (Live in Bremen 2004)
JANUS – Gravedigger (Hybrid)
ROBERT JON AND THE WRECK – Heartbreaks And Last Goodbyes
THE LUNAR EFFECT – Fortune’s Always Hiding
NATTRADIO – The Longest Night
HEATHER NOVA – Breathe And Air
BJØRN RIIS – Filmbulvintern
SIENA ROOT – Made in KuBa
SPIDERGAWD – From Eight To Infinity
STARLIGHT RITUAL – Rogue Angels
SWIM SCHOOL – Swim School
WALTER TROUT – Sign Of The Times
ALLY VENABLE – Money And Power

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Re-Releases (Rangliste)
THIN LIZZY – 74-75 Nightlife/ Fighting (Box Set)
OVERKILL – Feel The Fire (Box Set)
GARY MOORE – Live: From Baloise Session
UFO – No Place To Run (Remastered)

Jürgen Tschamlers

Top 30

TOWER – Let There Be Dark
MYTH CARVER – Twist Of Fate
CHILDZPLAY – First Toy
MEZZROW – Embrace The Awakening
CHASING DEMONS – Echoes From The Past

AMBUSH – Evil In All Dimensions
BUCKCHERRY – Roar Like Thunder
COBRA – First Strike (inoffizieller Re-Release!)
CASTLE RAT – The Bestiary
CHEAP TRICK – All Washed Up
CORONER – Dissonance Theory
CRUCIBLE – Hail To The Force
DOROTHY – The Way
DESTRUCTION – Birth Of Malice
DREAM THEATER – Quarantieme Live In Paris
HELL IN THE CLUB – Joker In The Pack
ORIANTHI – Some Kind Of Feeling
PALANTYR – The Ascent & The Hunger
SACRED – Fire To Ice
SACRIFICE – Volume Six
STAINLESS – Nocturnal Racer
SKRÄCKEN – Echoes From The Void
STEELER – Come Hell Or Hollywood… 1981-1982
STEEL ARCTUS – Dreamruler
SANHEDRIN – Heat Lightning
TRENCHER – Skullcrusher
TEASER SWEET – Night Stalker
TERRORDOME – Plagued With Violence
VIGILHUNTER – Vigilhunter
WINGS OF STEEL – Winds Of Time

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Re-Releases:
Zuviele überragende in diesem Jahr um sie alle zu listen.
Aber einige wie NIGHT DEMON, E.X.E., LETHAL, DAMN THE MACHINE, KIX, FLOTSAM & JETSAM kann man dennoch erwähnen.

Lesenswert war:
The Final Assault-A Memoir by Glenn Evans,
Carl Canedy-Tales Of A Wild Dog,
Erik Grönwall – Power, Music, Death, Life
Gary Holt – A Fabulous Disaster

Live konnten auch einige überzeugen:
NASHVILLE PUSSY- Paunchy Cats
RIOT V – Time To Rock Festival
AMBUSH – 7er Club
PALANTYR – Straßburg
ORIANTHI – 7er Club
UNLEASH THE ARCHERS – Substage
TOWER – Göppingen
OBITUARY/DESTRUCTION – Wiesbaden
HANDSOME DICK MANTITOBA – Madrid
3 INCHES OF BLOOD – Weinheim
SACRED REICH/EXODUS – Frankfurt
CASTLE – Essen
RIVAL SONS – Frankfurt

Less Leßmeisters

Top 30

ADORNED GRAVES – Dream I
AURORA FERRER – Time Crawlers
FLAMING ROW – Keeper Of The Scriptures / Hüterin der Schriften
FRONT ROW WARRIORS – Running Out Of Time
JONATHAN HULTÉN – Eyes Of The Living Night
LORD VIGO – Walk The Shadows
SACRED STEEL – Ritual Supremacy
STYX – Circling From Above
VOID – Forbidden Morals
WINTERLAND – Life’s What You Make It

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BEHÖLDER – In The Temple Of The Tyrant
CORONER – Dissonance Theory
DESTRUCTION – Birth Of Malice
DOROTHY – The Way
ERJA LYYTINEN – Smell The Roses
EVERON – Shells
HAMMER KING – Make Metal Royal Again
JACOBS MOOR – Anthems For The Apocalypse
LACRIMOSA – Lament
LARKIN POE – Bloom
MESSA – The Spin
PALANTYR – The Ascent & The Hunger
PAVLOV’S DOG – Wonderlust
SANHEDRIN – Heat Lightning
STEVEN WILSON – The Overview
TEMTRIS – Queen Of Crows
THEM – Psychedelic Enigma
TOWER – Let There Be Dark
VENAMORIS – To Cross Or To Burn
WUCAN – Axioms

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MAINSTREAM UND SPASS DABEI
ALICE COOPER BAND – The Revenge Of Alice Cooper
HAMMER KING – Make Metal Royal Again
HELLOWEEN – Giants & Monsters
HERBERT GRÖNEMEYER – Unplugged 2
MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP – Don’t Sell Your Soul
SPOCK’S BEARD – The Archaeoptimist
VANJA SKY – Access All Areas Live

LORDS OF THE UNDERGROUND
SATIN WHITE – Born

 Sinnvolle RE-RELEASES & FORGOTTEN GEMS
ABRAXAS – Shattered By A Terrible Prediction
RATT – Out Of The Cellar
TIBET – Tibet

THE MISSED JEWELS OF 2024
BROERS + KLAZINGA – Second Thoughts
DUST BOLT – Sound & Fury
HEATHER NOVA – Breath And Air
INFRINGEMENT – Black Science And White Lies
LEAGUE OF DISTORTION – Galvanize
LOCH VOSTOK – Opus Ferox II – Mark of the Beast
ROSALIE CUNNINGHAM – To Shoot Another Day
SOUNDDIARY – FourWord: Fairy Tales For Cyborgs
THE CRYPT – The Crypt

THE SHORT STRAWS – DEMO / EP
AGARTHA – The Hidden (EP)

 EYE TO EYE
BLACK MIRROR
LOVE, DEATH & ROBOTS
WEDNESDAY

YES I WAS LIVE
A CHANCE FOR METAL
AGAINST EVIL
EPIC FEST
HEADBANGERS NIGHT
KEEP IT TRUE
ROCK HARD FESTIVAL
SICKING HIGH ROCK 

HIGH HOPES FOR 2026
THE BEAUTYFUL DEAD finden ein fähiges Label
allen durchgeknallten Fascho-Narzisst*innen wächst die Vagina zu oder fällt das Glied ab

COVERART FOR THE DAMNED
The Best

 The Worst

Sir Lord Dooms

Vorläufige Top 25

PENTAGRAM – Lightning In A Bottle
PAGAN ALTAR – Never Quite Dead
IMHA TARIKAT – Confessing Darkness
MEAN MISTREATER – Do Or Die
DUN RINGILL – 150 – Where The Old Gods Play Pt. 2
BENEDICTION – Ravage Of Empires
VULTURE’S VENGEANCE – Dust Age
SACRIFICE – Vol. 6
AMORPHIS – Borderland
ZLORTCHT – A Cynical Theocracy

IV SIGILLO – Quarto Sigillo
INSULT – Reside Infernus
GRÀB – Krémess
LIGHTBRINGER – Der Schutz Des Feuers
MORAX – The Amulet
BENGAL TIGERS – Cry Havoc
BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO – Storie Invisibili
TUMENGGUNG – Back On The Streets
SARCASM SYNDROME – The Offering
CASTLE RAT – The Beastiary
GARDE – Harbinger Of Revenge And War
NAEVUS – Back Home
ANGEL OF DAMNATION – Ethereal Blasphemy
BLIZARO – Light And Desolation
PHANTOM DRUID – The Edge Of Oblivion

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

Harald, Jürgen, Less, Sascha,
Marcus und Michael

im Namen des gesamten SaitenKult-Teams!