Michael Rensen

Michael Rensen

Freier Mitarbeiter

Bei RockHard seit: 13.09.1994

Top 10 Platten

Top-10 Platten: 1. GENESIS - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (1974) Die 70er-Genesis-LPs sind der musikalische Schatz meiner Kindheit, ein nie verlöschendes Licht in dunklen Stunden. 2. YES - Yessongs (1973) Alles, was es im Progrock zu sagen gibt, auf drei heiligen LPs - mit 15 hat mich dieses monumentale Live-Triptychon monatelang paralysiert. 3. DAVE MATTHEWS BAND - The Gorge (Box) (2004) Multikulti-Jazzprog-Folkcountry-Jam-Rock - das Begnadetste, was der Welt seit 30 Jahren passiert ist. 4. QUEEN - A Night At The Opera (1975) Niemals klang Bombast-Rock leichtfüßiger, selbstbewusster, facettenreicher, farbenprächtiger und opulenter. 5. PSYCHOTIC WALTZ - A Social Grace (1990) Neben dem Nachfolger „Into The Everflow“ das beste Metal-Album aller Zeiten. Zum Flennen schön! 6. DREAM THEATER - When Dream And Day Unite (1989) Trotz „Images...“, „Awake“ und „Scenes...“: Nie proggte das Traumtheater wärmer und magischer als auf seinem Debüt. 7. THE WHO - Quadrophenia (1973) Das schlüssigste, zeitloseste, gesellschaftlich relevanteste und berührendste Konzeptalbum der Musikgeschichte. 8. THE BEATLES - Revolver (1966) Die unglaublich spannende und inspirierte Geburtsstunde des Albumformats als eigenständige Kunstform. 9. RUSH - Moving Pictures (1981) Knapp vor „Hemispheres“ und „A Farewell To Kings“ der kompletteste Klassiker der konstantesten aller großen Prog-Zauberer. 10. METALLICA - Master Of Puppets (1986) Das einzige Album, das ich mit meiner damaligen Teen-Thrash-Band vom ersten bis zum letzten Götterton coverte.

Reviews

DEVIN TOWNSEND - PowerNerd

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 449)

VOLA - Friend Of A Phantom

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 449)

BLIND EGO - The Hunting Party

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 449)

KINGCROW - Hopium

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 447)

LEPROUS - Melodies Of Atonement

(Dynamit, Rock Hard Vol. 447)

KAIPA - Sommargryningsljus

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 445)

GUENNA - Peak Of Jin´Arrah

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 445)

THE TANGENT - To Follow Polaris

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 444)

AYREON - 01011001 – Live Beneath The Waves

(Blu-ray & DVD, Rock Hard Vol. 444)

PLAN NINE - The Long-Lost Songs

(Dynamit, Rock Hard Vol. 444)

OU - 蘇醒 II: Frailty

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 443)

FULL EARTH - Cloud Sculptors

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 442)

NORTH SEA ECHOES - Really Good Terrible Things

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 441)

BIG BIG TRAIN - The Likes Of Us

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 441)

STEVE HACKETT - The Circus And The Nightwhale

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 441)

THE PINEAPPLE THIEF - It Leads To This

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 440)

THUNDER - Live At Islington Academy/Live At Leeds

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 440)

CALIGULA´S HORSE - Charcoal Grace

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 440)

PORCUPINE TREE - Closure/Continuation. Live.

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 439)

STEVEN WILSON - The Harmony Codex

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 436)

TESSERACT - War Of Being

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 436)

NEAL MORSE - The Dreamer – Joseph: Part One

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 435)

THE FLOWER KINGS - Look At You Now

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 435)

NMB - An Evening Of Innocence & Danger: Live In Hamburg

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 434)

BILLY TALENT - Live At Festhalle Frankfurt

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 434)

ENTERING POLARIS - Atlantean Shores/And Silently The Age Did Pass

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 433)

AMPLIFIER - Hologram

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 433)

MOTORPSYCHO - Yay!

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 433)

EINAR SOLBERG - 16

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 432)

YES - Mirror To The Sky

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 432)

BLACK MOON CIRCLE - Leave The Ghost Behind

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 431)

JETHRO TULL - RökFlöte

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 431)

ICE AGE - Waves Of Loss And Power

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 430)

EMPYRE - Relentless

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 430)

HAKEN - Fauna

(Dynamit, Rock Hard Vol. 429)

CONNOR SELBY - Connor Selby

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 429)

TRANSATLANTIC - The Final Flight - Live At L´Olympia

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 428)

ROBESPIERRE - Sandclocks Of Eternity

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 428)

KANSAS - Another Fork In The Road - 50 Years Of Kansas

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 427)

SAMMAL - Aika Laulaa

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 427)

THRESHOLD - Dividing Lines

(Album des Monats, Rock Hard Vol. 426)

ARENA - The Theory Of Molecular Inheritance

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 426)

MOTORPSYCHO - Ancient Astronauts

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 423)

SIX BY SIX - Six By Six

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 423)

PORCUPINE TREE - Closure/Continuation

(Album des Monats, Rock Hard Vol. 421)

THUNDER - Dopamine

(Dynamit, ROCK HARD Vol. 419)

Rock - Teil 5

(Buch & Fanzine, ROCK HARD Vol. 419)

COLD YEARS - Goodbye To Misery

(Album, ROCK HARD Vol. 419)

JOE SATRIANI - The Elephants Of Mars

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 418)

STAR ONE - Revel In Time

(Dynamit, Rock Hard Vol. 417)

THE FLOWER KINGS - By Royal Decree

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 417)

LALU - Paint The Sky

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 416)

JETHRO TULL - The Zealot Gene

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 416)

STEVE VAI - Inviolate

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 416)

INFECTED RAIN - Ecdysis

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 415)

LIMP BIZKIT - Still Sucks

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 415)

DEEP PURPLE - Turning To Crime

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 414)

ELECTRIC GUITARS - Freewheeler

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 414)

ELDRITCH - Eos

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 414)

KATATONIA - Mnemosynean

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 412)

YES - The Quest

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 412)

THE NEAL MORSE BAND - Innocence & Danger

(Dynamit, Rock Hard Vol. 411)

BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME - Colors II

(Dynamit, Rock Hard Vol. 411)

LEPROUS - Aphelion

(Dynamit, Rock Hard Vol. 411)

AYRON JONES - Child Of The State

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 409)

STYX - Crash Of The Crown

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 409)

KANSAS - Point Of Know Return Live & Beyond

(Album, ROCK HARD Vol. 408 mit HELLOWEEN-Titelstory + CD!)

SUBTERRANEAN MASQUERADE - Mountain Fever

(Album, ROCK HARD Vol. 408 mit HELLOWEEN-Titelstory + CD!)

POVERTY'S NO CRIME - A Secret To Hide

(Album, ROCK HARD Vol. 407 mit BROILERS-Titelstory + CD)

MOTORPSYCHO - Kingdom Of Oblivion

(Album, ROCK HARD Vol. 407 mit BROILERS-Titelstory + CD)

LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT - LTE3

(Album, ROCK HARD VOL. 406)

THUNDER - All The Right Noises

(Dynamit, ROCK HARD VOL. 406)

NOFX - Single Album

(Album, ROCK HARD Vol. 405)

STEVEN WILSON - The Future Bites

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 404)

TRANSATLANTIC - The Absolute Universe - The Ultimate Edition

(Dynamit, Rock Hard Vol. 404)

AYREON - Transitus

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 400)

MOTORPSYCHO - The All Is One

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 400)

NEAL MORSE - Sola Gratia

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 400)

KANSAS - The Absence Of Presence

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 398)

DEEP PURPLE - Whoosh!

(Dynamit, Rock Hard Vol. 398)

PROTEST THE HERO - Palimpsest

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 398)

CALIGULA´S HORSE - Rise Radiant

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 397)

KATATONIA - City Burials

(Album des Monats, Rock Hard Vol. 396)

THE CRYPTEX - Once Upon A Time

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 396)

SUBSIGNAL - A Song For The Homeless - Live In Rüsselsheim 2019

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 396)

AYREON - Electric Castle Live And Other Tales

(Blu-ray & DVD, Rock Hard Vol. 395)

KHYMERA - Master Of Illusions

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 395)

THE NEAL MORSE BAND - The Great Adventour - Live In Brno 2019

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 394)

ARCHON ANGEL - Fallen

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 394)

BLIND EGO - Preaching To The Choir

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 394)

DEEP PURPLE - Live In Rome 2013

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 393)

...AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD - X: The Godless Void And Other Stories

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 393)

DeWOLFF - Tascam Tapes

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 393)

ELECTRIC GUITARS - 10 Songs 10 Cities

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 392)

MARILLION - With Friends From The Orchestra

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 392)

KAMCHATKA - Hoodoo Lightning

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 392)

THE WHO - Who

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 391)

THE FLOWER KINGS - Waiting For Miracles

(Album, Rock Hard Vol. 391)

BLIND GUARDIAN TWILIGHT ORCHESTRA - Legacy Of The Dark Lands

(Dynamit, Rock Hard Vol. 390)