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Already this is a contender for my album of 2020! Looking at the name I expected it to be peppered with a shitload of guitar solos and no songs but I could not be more wrong! Axel Rudi Pell will release Sign Of The Times via SPV/Steamhammer on May 8th …

The title of this album is fairly self explanatory – it’s a live album to mark 30 years since German guitarist Axel Rudi Pell released his first solo album. In the last 30 years he’s released 17 studio albums, various compilations and four live albums (6 if you include DVDs). …

German guitarist Axel Rudi Pell released his first solo album way back in 1989. Now 29 years later he’s releasing his 17th solo studio album. That’s a lot of albums and doesnt even include live albums or solo albums, so he’s clearly not the type of person to take things …

German guitarist Axel Rudi Pell releases his new album on 21st April 2017.  Entitled “The Ballads V”, it is as the name suggests, a collection of ballads.  You’re not wrong about the “V” either – yes this is his fifth Ballads album, which seems a lot even considering how long …

It’s safe to say that when it comes to heavy metal guitarists some of the biggest names have come out of European countries, from Yngwie Malmsteen (from Sweden) to Jari Mäenpää (Wintersun and from Finland.) Yet there is one name who for over a quarter of a century has stood …

German guitarist Axel Rudi Pell will release ‘Game Of Sins’, his 16th studio album, on 15 January, via Steamhammer / SPV Records, on 15 January. The first single from the album, ‘King Of Fools’, is set for digital release tomorrow (Sunday 6 December. “[It] is about a pimp, the King …

This was a special one-off concert, that was filmed and recorded on 11th July 2014 at the ‘Bang Your Head’ festival in Balingen, Germany to celebrate German guitarist Axel Rudi Pell’s 25 years as a solo artist in the music business. You can get this as a Digipak 3 CD, …

It was a hot summer night and the beach was burning… Wrong song, wrong place! But the weather gods smiled on Axel Rudi Pell on that memorable magic evening of July 11th 2014:  There had been a severe weather alert, but in the end the floodgates of heaven opened only …

.@Planetmosh reviews #IntoTheStorm by #AxelRudiPell, out now on #Steamhammer It’s hard to argue with German axeman Axel Rudi Pell‘s pedigree… this is his 15th studio album in around 25 years  – which is a feat (especially when you couple that prodigious output with nearly as many cover sets, live releases …

The biggest Metal Festival of the world! Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) takes place annually in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. With 70,000 festival visitors, it attracts all kinds of metal music fans, such as fans of black metal, death metal, power metal, thrash metal, gothic metal …

This is gonna be a tough one to review, the latest cd from axel features only 3 new songs, and two of those are covers. Its been 7 years since Rudi released “Ballads 3”, so you might have expected this new record to feature all new material, it doesn’t, it …