documentary. hi there and welcome to a brand new episode of pop explored bringing you the best in the german music my name is also and here's what's coming up today. montreal cover the bustle of make a surprise appearance in berlin. meeting element of crime after

the release of the a long awaited album. and the danish death metal band the feel obliged at the back end of. the. first job are the boss hosts love the berlin based country carly promoting their new album black is beautiful they had a saloon installed in a truck as a stage for small scale gigs my calling benedict i met up with the boss hall's frontman and alec in berlin to get in the cowboy spirit. of. the bottles came to berlin with their own truck to promote the new album black is beautiful before their kick in just converted struck me to german country rocker to test their cowboy skillz.

that's a good. practice for. you . you. were not in a kentucky saloon here way i can distract him hard but the story with the wood that's home to us kindly had not flown in from an old saloon in kentucky when it was torn down we got hold of this stuff and brought it into berlin and installed it in this trailer to make it look authentic and this is not what you always have to take with you in terms of what it is that i'm talking about it doesn't work without the guitarist. not there without perhaps in the whiskey of course. we've also got lots of afghans presence here that they've given us over the years some are kept in our studio and our home base. they make

a great decoration here in our mobile saloon. we've even got some tomahawks. first summer vacation in twelve years and twenty seventeen in the funds wondered is it over with us do you ever think about quitting. no never we thought it might be time to slow down a bit so we don't saturate the market so we don't get the hell in a fish or effect and everyone's sick and tired of just hearing all the time. you started out in two thousand and four covering well known pop and rock songs much of the boston hard stuff back then is still in your music. hundred percent even if. there's a developing country or the country roots are always there but with every new album we like to try out new things naturally want it we don't want to start running in a place we'd like to open up to see what we can do with.

when there is a clock a bus was alice saw. your life. and . see if you're up to your cowboy skills i know you've been moaning about the list so. i have no idea how to try but i know what it's supposed to look like and this is net but you've already answered your own question women musical cowboys and if we have anything to do with their already dad. taught. challenge the challenges of robot so do i went on not. always moaning these are

professionals complain first played. the part of his rope the truck and. boat had made it that was unlucky it was an accident. first he complained but then he made it alec directly hire a sick. but let's just leave his head was just a coincidence well and sasha has to practice just like me.

now on to international news the freddie mercury biopic bohemian rhapsody had cinemas around the world this week maker is up for mcqueen bandmates brian may and roger taylor were closely involved in the film's production. american act that rami malik portrays thinker and entertainer freddie mercury will sold over two hundred million records with. the film recounted the story of the band from the beginning to their legendary live a performance in nine hundred eighty five six years before mercury. this week what he meant rhapsody hit cinemas in germany and the u.s. . i will definitely go a few bohemian rhapsody not least because freddie mercury was born in my native tanzania onto a german artist now a twenty year old not enough. better known as the now she shot to fame here when

she played live either which in the b.b. and t. and m. will be serious but lean as not only an actress she's been writing songs for years she is just about to release her third album and here is the first single of her better than or rebels. thank you this is. about. us not getting them to listen to a. cut. above.

and. beyond to us. thanks. glenn. thanks. thanks thanks. again to. lead.

thanks. live dangerously stay young and be a rebel and that's when those messages in that song and i think i'll take that on board though you know i will start touring germany austria and switzerland in march twenty ninth eighteen more brand new music is coming up in this week's new releases . herbage bruno mars back with an album that's quite political and double hurts oh my music is sings in turkish for the first time. the theme of the song this longing whether for the next vacation destination or a second home a. modern

cold's is the debut album by holly graham from cologne they blend post-punk new wave incredibly uk later this year the five loves will set off in their big north american tour. and. it was once in the boy band cina girl band let's say it was a former member of culture condell and mandy cup first of monroe's now they have come together for a latin pop song mandy even sings part of it in spanish. class

kids use their asia tour to shoot a quick music video for the post hardcore band from wrecking house in germany is currently playing concerts around europe and the bill is of course the singles spun off their debut album. those were a this week's new release was valid for the morning of thousand kemang you we have a classic video from the ninety's lords of the lords of by crossover rockers want to aids was released twenty years ago and stormed the charts in five countries it's still if a ransom and snowboarders and skateboarders. and

the one waves are still going strong to day something they have in common with element of crime the elder statesmen of melancholy were upshall songs for three decades they have been delighting their fans while their albums have climbed but it's their latest album a shot that. once that one why is that which means cheap monsters and mice has also

been well received by the critics we let them to find out of the secrets of their success. elements of crime are back with their fourteenth studio album the music is always sounds like connick melancholy and easy going. to do the things we all like. the video for the first single depicts a boat trip coming one of palin's legs. felicitous me rivers the sea lakes and boats they have something calming about them it's a different kind of motion a smoother rocking kind that complements our music. smooth a shock in the us from moving on to of and so on was you can get.

some three thousand fans came to a concert in hull in eastern germany to hear choose from the album the song sounds familiar but that's part of the chance element of crime having delighting their fans for first three years the dentist and the belief in a band is truly a hive when they create new songs when they understand each other's music and have fun together as once they don't the band starts breaking up because it has no value in itself or about to stay together for a long time and if it's fun and keeps moving ahead why shouldn't you keep at it even you got one real band in life after that you go shallow enough when there's a screw loose at once or. fifty seven year old friend a great man has also been writing novels for a while with great success his debut novel hell of a man was a bestseller it depicts the scene imbalance alternative. quarter by district where

the band members used to live as well in the early one nine hundred eighty s. the atmosphere was charged with energy punk and new wave became the new sound of the gray on the gray of the divided city it was the creation of power destruction and a good time to start back to. today are not the same. as used to be. they got their name from last frontiers surrealist attempt to film which probes the darkest depths of the human soul at first grade narrows his lyrics in english but with success elise if he switched to german now the band's albums regularly make the top ten. this is of course that has something to do with the fact that we've never had big hit singles nor a hit that gave us the big breakthrough this is. the band evolved over the years

and suddenly we've become popular in a bizarre kind of way. you could say elements of crime has crept in under the radar so we were afraid to do what we wanted his advise extreme five onto my preference for a boy. to. feel . good musicians are still doing what they want and that's carried their new album right up to the second spot in the german charts that music is smooth but not on quality and full of confidence it's the element of crime. a laid back guys with a laid back song element of crime if you want to find out what else is happening on the german music scene the satyr london hears the pop export.

electronic music star schiller dropped by to see genesis the sound studio phil collins as legendary band is known as the farm and located southwest of london christopher vaughn dial and was also known as schiller came by with his drummer of many years gary wallace who is known some original members of genesis personally is here to record percussion tracks for his upcoming album organ. is joined by genesis producer nick davis. a big stink went down over fun as unofficial a left wing punkers young man she got going his bandmates have been combating neil nazis and racism for years in early november they were to perform at the famous bauhaus design school in beso but when groups threatened to protest so the bauhaus foundation called off the concert saying they didn't want to become a site of political aggression. that triggered a storm event rage even germany's political parties discuss the consolation the

bond itself has remained controversial having once called for violence against the police now they've organized their own concert in death so twenty five years of raping and hide behind the german techno trio futures under jubilee tour front page pete baxter's fun members have been turning the world for over a year returning from a stray in russia their notes are in europe with a quick stop overdue but. good. thanks. the whole world of pop music on one facebook page to tell you music check out your favorite styles and the latest from the scene. done with us into the top universe

and follow us on facebook we'll see you then t w music. metal freaks it's time to let your hair down and start headbanging the extreme sounds of the night light from denmark the right music for the new comers a with a female singer that actually made it into the top five at this year's vaca and metal battle bands from around the globe flock to this competition at the renowned metal festival in the little village of bakken in northern germany so now make way for a scene of light. sound of light at the two thousand and one came open as possible razor sharp riffs our

comebacks are from coming in the middle back home you come this competition don't you scream when talk against twenty seven miles. oh i'm just a drummer but you know so so melodies and stuff amuse totally foreign. but these guys over here all like for me that makes them really really special and unique melodies that i don't think has been explored that much by many bands so i think that's a kind of the it's we have and always we have make it here was just you know powerball . back and it is the world's biggest heavy metal festival ever you have a mecca for metal head stores around seventy five thousand fans from all over to an area of some two hundred forty hectares and a small village in the. when germany. make you a waste of mathematical battle is a dream come true for any newcomer and sin of light is no exception. i was dreaming when i was a teenager to go to my parents like no you have to be eighteen before you go out so

fast so i was just waiting to turn eighteen and for free years i went to and then i've been exploring some other festivals since but i've been aching to come back and i had no idea it would be on. so just just incredible. three hundred kilometers north of this in a client's home town. a sign of the famine april two thousand and seventeen and i've been going nonstop ever since metal is booming in denmark. so many concerts all the time. i think maybe sometimes a bit too much because people are so. full they never need more because there's always the i think denmark and norway and sweden with finland yeah that's like a full countries that has the most middle bands per you know because it's what you

know forever it's you know so that's why we're so happy that we won the national finals because there is so much stiff competition out there. seen a black swan the national qualification and then to secure the best part and the muslim powerful in vacuum having had just twenty minutes to show what they can do. it was the biggest gigafactory a so far how does it feel. it's great. they were with us. throughout the even had a big circle pit which. would never had such a he was before so it was. a bit overwhelming i don't think any of us understands quiet what happened yet. winning the crowd

is one thing when in the jury another the suspense was nearly unbearable have you ever heard of. our. fourth place to sing about. the band decided to invest the two thousand euros prize money in new found much and that just as devices have fans as half of them seen of light extreme metal from denmark. i want to. tour out of the show here is for something completely different and ninety's than say it's played by an orchestra in twenty seventeen producer alex

cousins and was successful with that formula for a first album now it's really is the classical ninety's dance part two so we bid you good by what the video to the song another night it's off the album the origin all was released by the german project the real mccoy now it's rendered by us singer ass asia in london enjoy and see you soon on pop explored. the i. am. going. to. be the best. way. to. get to the

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