My World of Music – est. 2013
A band, that wrote one of the hymns of my youth is The Offspring. I don't know how often I listened to 'Self Esteem' and its iconic beginning. The songs had been played so often when we kids went out on the baseball field for circling the bases. That was in the '90s. In the... Continue Reading →
'Mutated Chaos', that almost sounds like a virus that is more than a disturbance of our daily life since a year. In this case, it's different. 'Mutated Chaos' is the title of a new EP, penned by Disembodiment. The quartet hail from the greater Montreal area in Canada and will release with 'Mutated Chaos' an... Continue Reading →
Cro-Mags have been ready to embark on a worldwide tour with a supposed start at Webster Hall in New York City in March 2020. The tour never got off the ground due to the upcoming pandemic, with gatherings and concerts having been banned. To not become paralyzed and passive, Harley Flanagan and band mates played... Continue Reading →
Brooklyn, NY's powerhouse Life Of Agony used the concert-less time of a pandemic to put the finishing touches to a documentary called 'The Sound of Scars'. It was two years ago, when UK-based director Leigh Brooks started the project, a documentary that was filmed across several countries while Life Of Agony was on and off... Continue Reading →
What's a real supergroup? Often, these kind of 'supergroups' should be labeled as 'bands with known musicians included'. In the case of Liquid Tension Experiment we can truly talk about a supergroup for two reasons: the stellar musical capabilities and the songs that are jaw-dropping. What the quartet delivers on the third longplayer is the... Continue Reading →
Any plans for May 1st this year? If not, Devin Townsend just announced a live stream event called 'Quarantine Project'. Townsend will perform the album ‘Ocean Machine: Biomech’ in its entirety via Single Music’s live stream platform. The show will be live on May 1st, 12 noon PDT, 3pm EDST, 20:00 GST, 21:00 CEST, 5am AEST. All... Continue Reading →
UK-based post-metal band Devil Sold His Soul started in 2004 and released one year later with 'Darkness Prevails' a first EP. Over the years three longplayers have been added to the discography of which the latest one so far is entitled 'Empire of Light' and was published in 2012. In 2013 founding member and frontman... Continue Reading →
Good news from the Cirith Ungol camp. The legendary epic metal powerhouse announce a new EP called 'Half Past Human'. Release date will be May 28th, 2021 and the release, that will come via Metal Blade, will feature four new tracks: Route 666Shelob's LairBrutish ManchildHalf Past Human What's new with the songs is the fact... Continue Reading →
It's not that 2021 lacks good death metal releases, thinking about the newest The Crown album and the latest longplayer of UK death metal machine Memoriam. Here comes a next candidate for your shopping list, this time from the beautiful city of Hamburg. It feels like Endseeker being in business already since a long time... Continue Reading →
I knew about The Lion's Daughter but never really made a bigger effort to explore their music in depth. This was before I received the new longplayer from the St. Louis-based trio. The Lion's Daughter started in 2007 and premiered in 2012 with 'Shame on Us All'. In the beginning it was blackened sludge that... Continue Reading →
The End Machine is one of the many projects that have been generated by Frontiers Music. The line-up of this outfit is an interesting one since it includes some well-known names in hard rock. With George Lynch and Jeff Pilson two main pillars of the successful Dokken line-up added their musical piece to The End... Continue Reading →
Hamburg-based Plattenkiste found a new creative way to handle the COVID crisis in an inspiring and heavily rocking way. It's a 3-CD set that is announce and here is the official statement from the Plattenkiste-Facebook site: "Since the governmental support package doesn't provide us with anything, we have to help ourselves in another way. The... Continue Reading →
Sweet Oblivion is a project that had its starting point in 2019, created and directed by Serafino Perugino, who is president and A&R director of Frontiers Music. One, if not the most important factor of this band is the fact of Geoff Tate being the singer of Sweet Oblivion. Tate, who was part of the... Continue Reading →
Hamburg's death metal powerhouse Endseeker worked on a new album that is in the starting blocks. 'Mount Carcass' will be unleashed on April 16th and Markus' Heavy Music Blog got the opportunity to talk to Endseeker guitarist Ben Liepelt. Enjoy reading what Ben has to tell about the new album and more. Markus' Heavy Music... Continue Reading →
One thing becomes crystal clear right away. The new Cheap Trick album brings a positive vibe to the plate that many of us need right here and now. It starts with the rocking and vibrant opener ‘The Summer Looks Good on You’. The irresistible melody catches your attention right away while the solo part manifests... Continue Reading →
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