Effective period / Period of releases: 2018

Members: Dirk Radloff

Heartscore is the studio-project of the german multi-instrumentalist Dirk Radloff. Formed in 2000 Heartscore started as a "virtual" Progressive Rock Band, which never played live. The trademark of Heartscore is the use of poems by famous poets. From the beginning Radloff set poems of authors like Poe, Dickinson, Hughes and others to music in the manner of a classical composer. All songs are notated before the recording-process starts. While the debut "Sculptures" is still based on known Hardrock- and Prog-elements, the followers "Straight to the brain" and "Many directions" could establish a more original style and marched further into the progressive rock-direction. Discouraged by the ongoing critic about his vocals Radloff hired an anonymous studio-singer for the self-titled comeback "Heartscore" from 2016. In 2018 Heartscore went into a transition-phase. The 2018 album "Black riders part 1" experimented with a weird mixture of Metal, electronic and poetry. Latest on the 2019 "Black riders part 2" the Metal-elements in Heartscore's music took over and Radloff presented a new singer from Italy, Giacomo Rossi. Together with Rossi Heartscore turns more and more into a Power-Metal band. But in 2020 Radloff rerecorded the 2020 album "Sculptures" with Rossi replacing him as the singer.