Grave Digger

Grave Digger, undisputed legends of German heavy metal, will release their new studio album “Faces Of Pain” via Reaper Entertainment on January 19, 2027! Below you'll find the first single from the album, along with the video for the…

Grave Digger, undisputed legends of German heavy metal, will release their new studio album "Faces Of Pain" via Reaper Entertainment on January 15, 2027! True to the straight-up old-school approach they showed on the previous album…

Performing: Crystallion, Power Surge, Grave DiggerDate: Thursday, 23 April 2026Venue: Zagreb / Boogaloo / Croatia Grave Digger made it to Croatia for the fourth time in their storied career on 23 April 2026! As part of a short…

The running order for today's heavy metal spectacle at Boogaloo in Zagreb is out. German heavy metal veterans Grave Digger take the stage, backed up by fellow German power metallers Crystallion and Zagreb metal revivalists Power Surge. …

The Grave Digger show, with the big legends of German metal due to play Zagreb's Hard Place club on Thursday, April 23, 2026, has been moved to a bigger venue, the Boogaloo club, because of the huge demand. Facebook event! All the…

Label: RPM-ROARRelease date: January 17, 2025Production: Chris BoltendahlAlbum length: 46.47 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 9.0/10 Grave Digger are legends of German heavy metal. Over a long career, the band has seen and been through…

Label: ROAR! Rock Of Angels RecordsRelease date: August 26, 2022Production: Chris Boltendahl & Axel "Ironfinger" RittAlbum length: 49.43 minGenre: Heavy Metal / Power MetalRating: 8.5/10 The comfort zone can be okay. Especially…

With “Fields of Blood,” Grave Digger has at least partly made up for some of the below-par albums it put out over the past ten years.

"Here are ten hand-picked power metal albums that came out twenty years ago, left a real mark on the power metal scene and the metal world in general, and make for especially sweet trips down memory lane."

With »The Living Dead«, Boltendahl hasn't handed fans yet another pig in a poke, but his 'gravediggers' still aren't in the kind of form that promises anything more than a solid-to-average effort, one that stays firmly in the shadow of…

On day three the weather finally took pity on us. Wednesday was marked mainly by the German heavy metal duo of Grave Digger and queen Doro, the blackjazz avant-garde of Norway's Shining, the acrobatics of their countryman Abbath, and a…

Location: Graz / Explosiv / AustriaDate: Saturday, 28.01.2017 The day had come when the author of this piece, a die-hard Grave Digger fan with a long career of fandom behind them, set off for their (round-number) tenth show by this…

An outstanding evening with the legendary German heavy metal band Grave Digger, who built the set around songs from the new album »Healed By Metal«, while still delivering an incredibly sharp and convincing show.

The new album confirms that, of all the German bands that came out of the German heavy metal wave at the turn of the '70s into the '80s, Grave Digger are the best example of a full-blown second childhood in their golden years.

"Day three of the legendary Bang Your Head festival 2016, closed out by Iced Earth!"

The third and final day of the 21st Bang Your Head!!! festival in the German town of Balingen finally brought a completely dry, sunny day. Iced Earth headlined, followed by Dirkschneider, Uriah Heep, Grave Digger, Great White, Tankard,…

Grave Digger being Grave Digger. What the name says is what you get. It's no longer news that the band bridges the wait for its new studio album, due out in 2016, perfectly with this release! A smart, effective move from a seasoned band!

Performing: Grave Digger, Victory, Stormwarrior, Bullet, DynamiteLocation: Balingen / Messegelände / Germany Date: Thursday, 10.07.2014 Another year has rolled around and a new edition of the Bang Your Head!!! festival is right on…

Another year has flown by, and a new edition of Bang Your Head!!! is right around the corner. It's the nineteenth one already. As tradition demands, no festival year can kick off without a warm-up day, held the day before the official…

Welcome back home, boys!

Thanks to a twist of fate, the new Grave Digger are becoming the old Grave Digger again with this album. Of course, none of it would have worked if Axel Ritt hadn't plugged into the Grave Digger lineup effectively and on time. This time the…

A big »YES« for the new EP. It's worth checking out, and fans of the band will be rewarded most of all by the two bonus tracks that won't come out anywhere else (maybe on some live release down the road). The rest of us can at least partly…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Boogaloo / Zagreb / CroatiaConcert date: April 5, 2011Attendance: 130 Grave Digger, the classic old-school heavy metal band from Germany, are showing zero signs of cooling off.…

A less inspired, more cautious record, hinting that the guitarist swap has left a gap where charisma and expressive charm used to be. A good album, but nothing special. The faithful will still be happy with it.

And just like that, the third day of the festival was over way too soon.

Location: Rieden-Kreuth / Germany Date: 08/29/2009 The third day of Wacken Rocks South served up a weaker lineup than day two, which was closed out by thrash metal godfathers Slayer. Still, with names like Edguy, Stratovarius,…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Rieden-Kreuth / GermanyConcert date: August 29, 2009Attendance: 6,000Ticket price: €80.00 The third day of Wacken Rocks South served up a weaker lineup than day two, which wrapped…

Manni Schmidt is the guitarist of Grave Digger and the band's main "riff-maker". Before the band's show in Zagreb, part of the current "Ballads Of A Hangman" tour, he took a few minutes out for a great chat.

As an EP, Pray is an effective teaser for the new Grave Digger album "Ballads of a Hangman", with tracks that didn't make it onto the album itself and a perfect Motorhead cover!

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Boogaloo / Zagreb / CroatiaConcert date: February 4, 2009Attendance: 450Ticket price: €22.00 The new tour from the legendary German old school heavy metallers Grave Digger, which…

Author: Rok KlemšePhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: VPK Mediapark, LjubljanaConcert date: 02.02.2009Attendance: 250Ticket price: 23€ The legendary German heavy metal raiders Grave Digger were formed back in 1980 by Chris Boltendahl, today…

"Ballads of a Hangman" is the album where Grave Digger most successfully flirt with their old-school "The Reaper" roots in their "Schmidt era". A new Grave Digger bomb straight to the face!

"What is there to add after the 10th consecutive Bang Your Head!!! festival in Balingen, Germany? Mission accomplished. The festival ran smoothly, with no delays. Apart from Hardcore Superstar canceling and Rob Halford's worn-out vocals,…

Author: Aleš Podbrežnik Concert date: 28.06.2008Attendance: 2806Ticket price: 15.000 AGE OF EVIL: 09.30-10.10 On day two my head was seriously heavy thanks to a healthy dose of alcoholic derivatives. I staggered onto the grounds a…

Author: Rok Klemše Concert date: 07/29/2007Attendance: 16Ticket price: 8,000/day It was hard to believe a whole year could fly by that fast. It feels like I just got back from Metalcamp 2006 and was still nursing my post-festival…

Barely two weeks after the death metal feast with Kataklysm, Master of Metal has already treated us to another concert package. This time the Swedish power metal armored division Sabaton and the German heavy metal Gravediggers rolled into…

The new Grave Digger album. Not again… Holy cow, time flies, or maybe Grave Digger really are just cranking out records at lightning speed. Legends and one of the founders of German Teutonic classic

The story of the Ring of the Nibelung goes something like this. Three water nymphs guard a hoard of gold at the bottom of the river Rhine (Rhine gold). Only from this gold can the magical ring at the center of the tale be forged. A cunning,…

Brutal! With "The Last Supper," Grave Digger head back to 2001, to the spirit of their album "The Grave Digger." "Rheingold" (2003) was the record with the most epic pomp in the history of the band, those raw Teutonic lumberjacks. This time…

Aha, there it is. The first official live record from the gravediggers. And how damn alive it is! That's why it's a must for every fan to add it to their collection. Recorded smack in the middle of Wacken Open Air last August. The taped…

At last, it's here! The first real live document from the "gravediggers". Real in the sense of a proper headliner show, running well over two hours, with a proper set list that takes in every single one of Grave Digger's studio albums and…

Chris and company couldn't get over how devoted the Slovenian fans were, or how well they knew the band's lyrics. Whenever Chris asked the crowd for a response, a thunderous roar swept the hall and shook it to its foundations.