Bone Collector

2025 will not only mark the 45th anniversary of German iconic metal institution, Grave Digger, but the release of their 23rd studio album “Bone Collector”, that is slated for a release on January 17, 2025 via ROAR! Founded in 1980 in Gladbeck, they set out to conquer the world; who would have thought that 45 years later Grave Digger would be one of the most important, consistent and influential metal bands from Germany. With the release of their ground-breaking debut "Heavy Metal Breakdown" in 1984, an unprecedented career began that will find its logical continuation more than four decades later with the band's much-waited new masterpiece “Bone Collector”, an album that sees the band going back to their old school roots.

Little can be said about Grave Digger that hasn’t already been expressed by me or a thousand other metal reviewers. In existence since 1982, this Germanic heavy metal institution has crossed an ocean of time, tide, shifting scenes, and countless lineup changes while continuing to churn out their tried-and-trve brand of Accept-meets-Manowar metal. Bone Collector is their 21st freaking album and it’s more of the same meat and grave-y, done with an admirable amount of energy and grit considering the advanced age of some of these geez-lords. Longtime guitarist Alex Ritt is out, replaced by former Ordan Ogan axe Tobias Kersting, but the sound and style remain largely unaffected.

Filmed on location in Montreal and New York, The Bone Collector is a suspense thriller that combines Rear Window and Seven. Two cops on the trail of a brutal serial killer must see as one, act as one, and think as one before the next victim falls. Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington) is an intelligent forensics detective who was paralyzed in the line of duty. The author of several books, he has a keen eye for detail and nose for clues that have made him a legend in the law enforcement community. Amelia Donaghy (Angelina Jolie) is a street-smart policewoman in her twenties. On her last day as a street cop, before being transferred to a desk job, Amelia discovers a badly mutilated corpse. Rhyme is asked to investigate the case, but he declines. To him, it is an open-and-shut case not worth his time. But when he takes a close look at the evidence, he is intrigued, as the photos reveal complex messages in their details.

Quadripeligic ex-cop Lincoln Rhyme was looking forward to his assisted suicide when he got the news: some sicko was abducting people in a taxi and leaving them to die in particularly sadistic ways. With time counting down between each abduction and possible death, Rhyme recruits rather-unwilling Amelia Donaghy, haunted by her cop father's suicide and thinking she's next, into working the crime scenes to track down the killer.