My World of Music – est. 2013
The Cold Stars is a duo, hailing from Indiana, US. The guys announced their new album ‘Heavy Shoes’ which will be in the record stores on August 13th. The record will come via Mascot Records and features blues-laden songs like the great ‘Prosecution Blues’. The album title already indicates that ‘Heavy Shoes’ isn’t a light-hearted... Continue Reading →
In case you always wanted to know how stoner rock from Malta sounds like, not too bad I can tell you. A Broken Design is a band hailing from Malta and announced the reissue of their ‘Another Day in Hell’ album through Argonauta Records. Here is the title track: https://youtu.be/rVozcbuRCmQ
Finnish melodic death metal outfit Insomnium announced a new EP called ‘Argent Moon’. Release date is September 17th and the record comes via Century Media. "When the Corona outbreak forced us to cancel all the tours and shows, we pretty soon adopted a mindset that we better do something and keep ourselves in motion. We... Continue Reading →
A pandemic can stop live shows for a certain time span, but it certainly can’t stop music and creativity. In this context it also doesn’t surprise that guitar wizard Axel Rudi Pell used concert-less months to work on a next output from the studios. ‘Diamonds Unlocked II’ is the next chapter of cover version, newly... Continue Reading →
After having been in a hibernation for around a year, Australian powerhouse Mammoth Mammoth return in their classic line-up. Frank ‘Bones Trobbiani, Ben ‘Cuz’ Couzens, Mikey Tucker and Pete Bell have signed a deal with Golden Robot Records, and it will be a live album that will be released later this year. Knowing about the immense live power of... Continue Reading →
'Suffer, Then We're Gone' is the title of Mourn The Light's debut album. Mourn The Light is a band from Connecticut, US. It was in 2017 when the quintet started their metal adventure, and a first EP has been revealed one year later. This first release, together with a few singles, brought the band to... Continue Reading →
The best things in life are often the once you don't plan for. The beginning of The Hornets is such a moment, a band that wasn't planned and more or less just happened. It was in September 2016 when the two Francia brothers together with their neighbor formed The Hornets out of boredom and for... Continue Reading →
The wait has been extremely long, and the absence of live shows was one of the big downers over the last months. The longing for heavy music, played live in front of an audience was huge and that’s one of the reasons why the announcement of the ‘Revolt! Goes Planten un Blomen’ was received so... Continue Reading →
Melodic rock and Sweden is a recipe that more than once stood for professionally made rock music with an addictive factor embedded. Rian is a band that follows the tradition and releases with 'Twenty- Three' a new album, filled with eleven tracks that are supposed to continue an undertaking that started in 2017 with the... Continue Reading →
Iceland, a rather small country and a smaller island, but big when it comes to rock and metal. I guess that the amount of rock and metal bands in relation to the entire population is a rather high number. This time it is death metal outfit that share a new album with the world. Ophidian... Continue Reading →
Big City is the brainchild of Daniel Olaisen. The guitarist and songwriter worked out many song ideas over time and had the plan to record these songs together with some partners in crime. He found with Frank Ørland, Frank Nordeng Røe, Jørgen Bergersen and Miguel Pereira the right contributors for this endeavor and things were... Continue Reading →
Lacking the possibility of live shows led to a lot of streaming events during the last months. Most of those have been done with the approach of transferring the live spirit into a virtual room while others preferred a bit of a different strategy - like Paradise Lost. The UK-based metal veterans decided to perform... Continue Reading →
'Blood Carving Mantras' and World 'Sacrifice' have been the foundation-makers for 'Hades Unleashed', the new strike from Northern Germany. It doesn't take Temple Of Dread long to go full speed on their third longplayer. With 'Aithon's Hunger', the trio starts things off without any intro or warm-up phase. It's more of a sonic punch into... Continue Reading →
Having released 21 solo studio albums means that you’re real veteran with a long list of achievements. Yngwie Malmsteen is this guy that can look back on a long history in heavy metal. The guitar wizard and master of neoclassic power metal created an own sound which makes Malmsteen songs immediately recognizable. The Swedish guitarist... Continue Reading →
Like father like son. That could be the header for the debut album of Heavy Water. The band premiers on July 23rd with ‘Red Brick City and although the outfit is a rather new one, the names behind this moniker are well-known. Heavy Water is the lockdown project of Saxon’s legendary frontman Biff Byford und his... Continue Reading →
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