the instrumentals are classic dirk, but I would not have recognized the vocals! what an amazing job you have done fitting the vocals to the music and content!  and I always like seeing your self-written lyrics. Wonderful Dirk!

Cool from start to finish, and very hard to disagree with you.

Good work ! Very strong message as well the music.

Great crossover style, Dirk...and a suitably angry lyric to match...super production on this!!!

A bit of RATM in here.... great song and go get ‘em!

Man you’re kicking out some killer songs. Really nice guitar playing. It’s tight.

Heartscore: Killer Rock: Thanks for making The Sharkman with us!

lyrics, vocals: Shark Teeth @shark_teeth93 
music, mix/master: Echo Garage

artwork by Shark Teeth

lyrics

I believe something a little crazy, a little out there
Inconceivable, inconceivable
I believe something, now hear me out man
I have seen saucers flying in the sky, flying in the sky
Cruising at warp speed, changing direction, then disappearing
Can't change my mind
I want to believe
I want to believe
I want to believe

The truth is out there for those who seek it
I know they're out there, seen 'em with my own eyes
The truth is out there, I want to find it
I know they're out there watching from the skies

I believe something a little spooky, a little kooky
Implausible, but not impossible
I believe something, open your mind man, truth is worth finding
If you've got the nerve, if you've got the nerve
We will go down the rabbit hole and discover worlds
Beyond your wildest dreams
Do you believe?
Do you believe?
Do you believe?

The truth is out there for those who seek it
I know they're out there, seen 'em with my own eyes
The truth is out there, I want to find it
I know they're out there watching from the skies

Don't call me crazy, you're the one that's crazy
You could never believe the things that I've seen
A stable form of element 115
Intelligence far greater than our own
They come and beam you up from your home
One way or another I've got to know
Even at the expense of getting probed
I want to look them right in the eye
I want an encounter before I die

Shark Teeth and Echo Garage - I Want To Believe

Don't miss the video for this track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_J4fMI34pg

This is the first track of Heartscore's upcoming album. I plan to publish the full album at the end of the year, approximately November. In the meantime I will promote this track as an appetizer together with the accompanying video, which you can find here: 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_J4fMI34pg 

The track and the album feature again the italian singer Giacomo Rossi on Lead vocals. Since I work with Giacomo the music of "Heartscore" has changed from Progressive Rock to Heavy Metal and the upcoming album will mean a further step into pure Metal-territory. You can expect Power-Metal in the tradition of Judas Priest, Manowar and Iron Maiden. But some tracks will also touch Thrash-Metal. 
It's also the first time in the history of "Heartscore", that I have written the lyrics myself and have not (ab)used old poems.
lyrics
Medusa’s head 

Raped by the god of the sea 
Beheaded by her enemy 
She was all alone 

Rage of a woman’s soul 
Turned into a brutal ghoul 
Her look turns men to stone 

Chorus: 

Medusa’s head was cut away 
But her glare still found its way 
Medusa’s head! Medusa’s head! 

Caused by Poseidon’s force 
Dead she gave birth to a horse 
Riding to the sky 

Snakes around her head 
Soon you would be dead 
Don’t look into her eyes 

Chorus 

She was beheaded so fast 
Cause Perseu’s weapons were too vast 
Sandals, helm and sword 

Holding the shield like a mirror 
He was able to beat her 
Put her head in a sack and corded it 

Chorus 

Chorus

Lead Vocals: Giacomo Rossi (www.youtube.com/c/GiacomoRossi92) 
All instruments: Dirk Radloff 
Music and lyrics: Dirk Radloff

Medusa's head

okay I fleshed it out and worked on the vocal...
NOTE: I finally took those annoying breaths out of the vocal track!

This one’s gonna hurt, it’s gonna make me wanna cry
And turn things upside down, and still I’ll wonder why
You made me feel alive, but now I want to die
You took away my wings when you taught me how to fly

This one’s gonna hurt, more than anything I’ve known
It makes me question everything, what is right and what is wrong
What it means to be redeemed, to come off of that ledge
And you see the one you love still dancing on the edge

In this dirty dusty room, it’s like an empty tomb
There’s an echo in the hall, but no one there to hear me call
But know I tried to make it right
I tried to save us from the fall

I don’t know what to do, I can’t believe it’s true
I was lost inside a dream, but I know now what it means
To wake up in the cold, when everything went wrong
And the life we knew is gone

This one’s gonna hurt, and it’s more than I can stand
When I can’t hold you close, with these two empty hands
I was searching for a sign, to know how you would feel
I wish I could change your mind
But I know you never will…

This Ones Gonna Hurt (Complete Mix)

After a long time I come back with something controversial, so you should sit down before reading and listening further. I have created something very different inspired by the Ukraine-war. I needed a song to channel my aggression and this is the result. So I have recorded a Metal-HipHop crossover-track inspired by Public Enemy, who did the same on their legendary "It takes a million to hold us back"-album.
I have used this song to test also some new production-methods for my project "Heartscore". 

I grab my sniper-rifle and travel to Moscow

I’m sitting on the table with my family, 
Surrounded by hot coffee and calamities
It’s Sunday morning soon we will go to the park
But first my television will enlighten the dark
 
I wonder what I see feeling totally ashamed
An uneducated child is fucking the whole world
They try to negotiate, but I know that they will fail
Brutality is sometimes needed outside the jail

Somebody must take action to educate the child
Before it will destroy the toys and we are in the wild
If nobody stands up from his comfortable chair
The little monster dares what nobody has dared

I grab my sniper rifle and travel to Moscow 

The child is getting wild and kills the innoc ent
It can not play so properly, because of the past
When he was left alone and he was really the last
Raised in poverty, criminality, ambition to rise

From the deep hell the child has climbed to the top of the roof
It is looking down to the former play friends’ group
His envy has grown bigger than his wizen, tiny balls
He is putting on much Botox to cover the grief of a dwarv
 FCK FCK FCK PTN
Take me to the Kreml, driver

I sit on the backseat of a limousine
I spit on the head of the propaganda machine
I hit too late the face of brutality, but
I lit the revolution, I lit the revolution

A candle in the wind of the hot war
It’s the hope I have seen, I will see, I saw
Many people running round holding blank posters
Their lives were a lie, an empty rollercoaster.

Credits:
Drum-sample taken from "Behind the wall of sleep" by Black Sabbath
Vocals created with https://uberduck.ai
Music and lyrics written by Dirk Radloff
Guitar: Schecter KM-6 MK III

I Grab My Sniper-Rifle And Travel To Moscow

(Duran Duran; arr. Sharbaugh) 
Bonetender [ @bonetender ]: electric guitars 
Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ @michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: vocals, drums and drum machine programming, synthesizers and sequencer programming, and 'found sounds' 
Composed and Recorded ca. 1982 to March 16, 2022. 
sm83 [eM-The Mellow High Mix 02] [24WAV].

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"The original version of this song made Me who I am today: I heard #duranduran 's original version for the first time when I was 13, whilst doing homework at the dining room table, and was floored by its beauty.

By the time the song was halfway through, I knew that I wanted to make something as #haunting -ly beautiful, and set out to write #music and #poetry for the rest of My life.

This cover is a #homage to that ‘forever feeling’ -- of #dedication, and of the endless #devotion to My #musical craft. (’Till #death shall #music and I part!)

I have a #video in the works for it, and plan to release #remix -es soon!"

~ Michael

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Anyone Out There? (feat. Bonetender)

... on Spotify >>>

"Anyone Out There?" (a Duran Duran cover [1983]) - Michael Ash Sharbaugh (feat. Bonetender)

Latest short Track off off the New Album ''Eat Your Carrots''

Memory To Me

Don't miss the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mRPf8n5qTo

Vocals: Giacomo Rossi @giacomo-rossi-5
Instruments, production: Dirk Radloff

This is the first track of the upcoming Heartscore-album, which will hopefully be released at the end of 2022. The song is about an American female serial-killer called Jane Toppan or "Jolly Jane", who killed around 30 persons during her work as a nurse. She was fascinated by the moment of death, so the legend says, that she hugged her victims right before they died and looked into their eyes. 
Musically I follow the route, which I have set with "Medusa's head": Simple, but powerful Metal-songs in the tradition of Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Manowar. I plan to be even more consistent on the upcoming album. Therefore I will try to avoid all sidesteps towards ballads, prog rock and other styles for wimps :-) Expect only face-melting, true Metal!
lyrics
The final hug

Hear my name is Jolly Jane
And I was born into the madness
My father "Kelley the crack" was known
To sew his eyelids closed in sadness
My mother died so fast
My childhood would not last

My father put me in an asylum
My sister went to be a bitch
Ann C. Toppan finally took me home
She did not know I was a witch

Chorus:
Slide to the other side
It will be your last ride
I will share my love with you
Are you still alive, dear
Can you feel me so near?
The time is now to give a
FInal hug to you

When I worked so hard in hospitals
My curiosity arose
What would happen, if I ram a shot
Of Morphine right into your nose?

Chorus:
Slide to the other side
It will be your last ride
I will share my love with you
Are you still alive, dear
Can you feel me so near?
The time is now to give a
FInal hug to you

Trained with poison, merciless
I know how I will get my will
I drug you first and before the kiss
Comes Strychnine, which will slowly kill
I look into your eyes
While you will miserable die!

Thirtyone I killed with so much joy
I touched them alive, I touched them dead
Don't believe, that I am just insane
It's me, your trusty Jolly Jane!

Chorus:
Slide to the other side
It will be your last ride
I will share my love with you
Are you still alive, dear
Can you feel me so near?
The time is now to give a
FInal hug to you
credits
released May 2, 2022 
Giacomo Rossi: Lead Vocals
Dirk Radloff: All instruments, mix mastering, artwork, lyrics, music
license
all rights reserved

The Final Hug

No Where  Than Somewhere (Acoustic)

Half Blind Lucy - Morning Face

Support Heartscore and buy the full album on Bandcamp (10 tracks)
https://heartscore.bandcamp.com/album/the-edge-of-times

Highway killer

I don’t care about the price of gasoline
I push the pedal to the max
I’m speeding on the left trail and when I see swine
I’m counting on my fast reflex

Out off my way! 
Hear what I say!
Crash into you!

I’m the Highway killer, I’m the Highway killer
The meanest Porsche chiller!

Rolling, rolling over children, mom and dad
Grandma’s rollator was not fast enough
Slow, old pedestrians are driving me so mad
I crush them with a subtle laugh

Out off my way! 
Hear what I say!
Crash into you!

I’m the Highway killer, I’m the Highway killer
The meanest Porsche chiller!

Hunting animals with my radiator-grill
Some trophies hanging on my wall
Who would dare to stop me against my will
I shoot policemen in the head

Out off my way! 
Hear what I say!
Crash into you!

I’m the Highway killer, I’m the Highway killer
The S.U.V. caviller!

Giacomo Rossi: Vocals https://www.youtube.com/@GiacomoRossi92
Dirk Radloff: All instruments, production
Music and lyrics by Dirk Radloff

Highway Killer

This song features Erika Bach (lolademo) on Lead Guitar & Backing Vocals. Erika also mixed and mastered this song engineering and composing the massive intro & exit to this well managed piece. Erika did this with mediocre tracks from my mediocre machine from across oceans and made it wholesome and enjoyable to listen to bringing out the true essence of the moment! Adam & I are deeply grateful for her time and energy. She is a true Rock & Roll Diva that deserves the worlds recognition for her numerous contributions to the art! She is and always will be in my Rock & Roll Hall of Fame...The Screachey One
 
if you haven't been to lolademo or lola lofi it's a endless stream of perfectly made music that will make you very happy! Once you have found your way to Ithaca Greece check out Headcharge777 & MsBessieBell too! The Island has really good water!   

https://soundcloud.com/lolademo
https://soundcloud.com/lola-lofi
https://soundcloud.com/headcharge777
https://soundcloud.com/msbessiebell

Michael Walker - Rhythm Guitar, Bass, Vocals
Erika Bach - Lead Guitars, Backing Vocals
Adam Coppock - Drums

Mastered & Mixed by Erika Bach
Song by The Screachey One Himself... 

the-groove

It’s just another Saturday night
And I don’t feel right
I can’t seem to get myself in the groove 

It seems no matter what I try
I can’t even get myself high
I can’t get into the groove

I guess it’s just not all that big a deal
I guess I’ll have to be myself
I’ll have to be real, real, real

Just as long as I have you by my side
I’ll have myself a natural high 
I’ll find the groove

I guess that will just have to do
Were gonna get into it
Gonna find the groove me & you


The Groove

(lyrics)

THESE RICHES THEY COME AT A COST 


They be talking that shit
But I don’t understand 
Ima need connotation 
Shawty ovulating 
And wanting relations 
I can’t conversate
8 blunts in rotation
Built this
Brick by brick
Like a mason
Amazingly 
How we gon get it
These riches they come at a cost

Like the time on your watch

Won’t die on my watch
Tie-dying my socks
3d printing some glocks 
3 deep
Gang taking your guap
Want what I want when I want ima boss
Going up like a stock
Oh
Lost profit
Yeah you hearing his thoughts
I gotta b and she suck on the c 
X3

The song paints a picture of an artist who has achieved wealth and success, but at significant personal costs. There's a constant tension between enjoying the fruits of his labor and dealing with the sacrifices, both in terms of time, relationships, and personal integrity. The references to material items, indulgence, and control reflect a larger-than-life persona, but the underlying message remains clear: THESE RICHES THEY COME AT A COST

THESE RICHES THEY COME AT A COST

Here are three songs from my new album, which will be released on 11/1/2019. 

Order the new album at:

https://heartscore.bandcamp.com/album/black-riders-part-ii

The new heartscore-album "Black riders part 2" is again based on poems by the american author Stephen Crane. I have compiled eight poems from his collection "Black riders and other lines" and also the Guitar-instrumental "To my tiny throes and struggles" is named after a Crane-poem. Only the final instrumental "Mankind" is titles by myself and the title shall point back to the sister-instrumental "Gods" on the previous album. The album is released digitally on all platforms and additionally I have produced a small vinyl-edition. I learned again from the experience with the release of part one and will only make three copies for sale. So don't hesitate and buy one, because actually there are only three available worldwide and I will only order more, if three are sold out. 
Shortly after the release of "Black riders part 1" I met an old friend again online, the italian singer Giacomo Rossi, whom I knew from my Soundcloud-years. We did a cover-song together and I was so blown away by his performance, that I immediately decided to get him for the next full heartscore-album. His voice reminds me on the great vocalists of 80s Metal, think on Rob Halford, Bruce Dickinson, Michael Kiske and others. A high, dramatic tenor with a wide range and many colors. And of course I was influenced by his voice, when I composed the songs for this new album, so many tracks will probably remind you in parts on the great bands mentioned above, but of course you get also a good portion of the old heartscore-trademarks: Choir arrangements, tricky breaks and a beautiful piano-ballad. The new album is for sure much more accessible than its predecessor and I believe, that it could attract more listeners. 
credits
releases November 1, 2019 

Vocals: Giacomo Rossi 
Instruments: Dirk Radloff 
Lyrics: Stephen Crane (1871-1900) 

All music composed, arranged and produced by Dirk Radloff 
Artwork and sleeve design by Dirk Radloff 
Photos are licensed from shutterstock.com 
The norse font was created by joel carrouche 
Mixed and mastered at home 

Special thanks to: my little darling and my beautiful children, Stefan Platte, Anja Radloff, Lee Lucas, 
Gordon Midgley, Marquis Zane, Russell Sinfield, 
Darren Douglas Danahy, Rock Flexible and all those other online musicians, who helped me with 
feedback and suggestions. 

bad homburg, november 2019

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