Tag Archives: Mad Max

Gig review: FIREFEST – Manchester Academy, 11-13 October 2024

Posted on October 27, 2024 by andynathan

For a decade through to 2014, Firefest built a reputation that most festivals would kill for. It wasn’t just the stellar line ups of melodic hard rock acts, from the rising stars through to long dormant bands from the eighties … Continue reading →

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Album review: LESSMANN VOSS – Rock Is Our Religion

Posted on July 24, 2022 by brianmc

Atomic Fire Records [Release date: 22.07.22] This Lessmann Voss, Rock Is Our Religion album would be easy to write off because it seems so out of time. Bonfire’s Claus Lessmann and Mad Max’s Michael Voss are clearly not keen to … Continue reading →

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Album review: MAD MAX – Stormchild Rising

Posted on August 27, 2020 by jason

SPV Records [Release date 21.08.20] The undoubted star of Mad Max’s umpteenth album is Michael Voss’s guitar. It provides blistering solos and fine textural detail, often in the space of a single track. That’s nothing new, but it might be … Continue reading →

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Album review: MAD MAX – 35

Posted on August 17, 2018 by Davoski

Steamhammer/SPV [release date: 10.08.18] ‘35’ denotes the number of years that Mad Max have been together. Top marks for endurance. The melodic hard rockers formed in Munster, Germany have waited five years to follow-up 2013’s studio platter, ‘Interceptor’. Despite the … Continue reading →

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Album review: ROCK WOLVES (Michael Voss, Herman Rarebell, Gudze)

Posted on November 3, 2016 by GRTR! HQ

Steamhammer/ SPV [Release date 28.10.16] Here’s a collaboration of three significant melodic/hard rockers who in the past few years have worked mainly with others such as Michael Schenker. Michael Voss (Mad Max, Casanove) has produced many artists from his studio … Continue reading →

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Album review: SIMULACRUM – Sky Divided

Posted on December 15, 2015 by david.wilson

Self Release [Release date 28.08.15] This is the second album from Finnish prog metallers Simulacrum and rather good it is too. The band are led by Niklas on vocals and Chrism on keyboards who take care of the lyrics and … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: MAD MAX, BLACK TRIP

Posted on August 25, 2015 by jason

BLACK TRIP – Shadowline SPV www.spv.de [Release date 28.08.15] Drawing heavily on the influences of very early Maiden and other NWOBHM band of that era and ilk, Sweden’s Black Trip have followed up 2014’s “Goin’ Under” with new release “Shadowline”. … Continue reading →

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Album review: WOLFPAKK – Cry Wolf

Posted on September 14, 2013 by jason

AFM Records Wolfpakk are Michael Voss of Mad Max fame and Mark Sweeney of Swiss band Crystal Ball plus a host of guest stars. This follow up to 2011’s self-titled debut features the talents of Amanda Somerville, Ralf Scheepers (Primal … Continue reading →

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MAD MAX – Another Night Of Passion

Posted on March 1, 2012 by jason

SPV www.spv.de Mad Max have always had a cult status in the melodic rock world after their 1987 album ‘Night Of Passion’ received rave reviews but never sold like it should have. There have been various Mad Max line-ups in … Continue reading →