AFM Records

On January 21 2009 the Dutch rock & metal magazine Aardschok confirmed the rumours about Jorn Lande's return to his former band Masterplan. AFM Records has set an August 28 release date for "Dukebox", a 16-track best-of from Jorn Lande. The...

In this article: Jorn Lande, Masterplan, Unlocking the Past, Ronni Le Tekro, 1994 World Cup, Lonely Are The Brave, The Snakes, The Gathering, Norwegian national football team, and Starfire

...Fragile Equality was released on September 24 in Asia/Brazil by JVC and Laser Company Records and on October 17 in Europe/USA/Canada by AFM Records. Since in June 2007 Angra took a break for two years, Edu concentrated on Almah. The solo...

In this article: Angra, Edu Falaschi, Brazil, Felipe Andreoli, Europe, Orchestration, Edu Ardanuy, and Casey Grillo

...then released their debut album called 'Metal Will Stand Tall', to the Swedish market in May 2006. They inked a deal with Germany's AFM Records and then released the album in the rest of Europe on January 19, 2007. The single 'One Night of...

In this article: The Poodles, Pontus Norgren, Metal Will Stand Tall, Alcazar, Talisman, and Peter Stormare

AFM Records is a music label based in Schwalmstadt, Germany. They focus on the heavy metal musical genre, signing bands such as U.D.O., Doro , Kotipelto, Masterplan, Nostradameus, and Annihilator . In 2005, Candlelight Records signed a...

In this article: Kotipelto, Masterplan, Nostradameus, Doro, U.D.O., Candlelight Records, Annihilator, Schwalmstadt, and Germany

...was an affectionate epithet for Mr. Edgar Siedschlag, their math teacher at the time. After two demo s the band received a contract with AFM Records in 1995. Their first two albums were not very successful, but with Vain Glory Opera in...

In this article: Edguy, Tobias Sammet, Tinnitus Sanctus, Nuclear Blast, Hellfire Club, Vain Glory Opera, Ideology, Jens Ludwig, and Avantasia

...'Tage Mahal on the SPV label in 2004 Originally slated to be released on the same label in May 2006 , JOP subsequently signed to AFM Records for the release of the follow-up entitled Maniacal Renderings, due on September 4 2006. Oliva...

In this article: Jon Oliva, Jon Oliva's Pain, Circle II Circle, Savatage, The Beatles, Manticora, Europe, and SPV

...summer of 2007 he split ways with the company and for a short while that year he joined the ranks of AFM Records, again in order to assist the company in Greece. In December 2007, Spiliotopoulos dropped the German label in favor of Warner...

In this article: Dreamtone & Iris Mavraki's Neverland, Reversing Time, Rock Hard, Athens, Ronnie James Dio, Warner Music, and Nuclear Blast Records

...(two of which are on the special edition of the band's first CD). On December 2007, Neverland signed their first record contract with AFM Records and set out to record their debut album, Reversing Time. Teaming up with the guest artists...

In this article: Dreamtone & Iris Mavraki's Neverland, Reversing Time, Hansi Kursch, Tom Englund, and Turkey

...At Vance to quickly issue a followup in 2001's Dragonchaser. Barely pausing for breath, the next year saw the band switching to AFM Records, losing their bassist and keyboard player, releasing their fourth album Only Human, and then...

In this article: At Vance, MySpace, Mats Leven, Oliver Hartmann, Neo-classical metal, and Finnvox

...former Accept frontman Udo Dirkschneider, will release the follow-up to 2007's "Mastercutor", titled "Dominator", on August 21 via AFM Records. The track listing for the CD is as follows: In late 2009, U.D.O. is planning on hitting the...

In this article: U.D.O., Accept, Metal Hammer, Udo Dirkschneider, Mastercutor, South America, Europe, and Japan