My World of Music – est. 2013
It looks like a pandemic can't stop the passion for music of Long Distance Calling. A new album released a year ago, an EP unveiled a few weeks ago, some summer shows in 2020 and now new dates for summer 2021 is a clear signal that you can follow your musical heart, although with new... Continue Reading →
'To the End' is the title of Memoriam's new album and we can all hope that it's just the title of this longplayer since this band is so good that we don't even want to think about an end. Memoriam started in 2016 when former Bolt Thrower frontman Karl Willetts and Benediction bassist Frank Healy... Continue Reading →
Wheel pt.2 - in a way. Important is not to mix up Wheel from Germany with the Finnish prog metal band, sharing the same moniker. In this review we are talking about the quartet, hailing from Dortmund, Germany and instead of progressive metal sounds it's more the slo-mo doom riffs that break ground on 'Preserved... Continue Reading →
Vektor released a split EP together with Dutch thrash metal unit Cryptosis in February this year. 'Activate' and 'Dead By Dawn' are the two songs penned by the progressive thrashers from the US. Vektor, together with District 19, took the decision, based on fans requests, to release the two songs separately also as a CD... Continue Reading →
Swedish riff merchants Screamer are a rather established band with four longplayers in the credit column. Enriched by a few single releases the only thing the guys were missing was a live album, a gap that was closed earlier this year. In a time when bands are condemned to idleness, at least when it comes... Continue Reading →
Akvan is a one man black metal project hailing from Iran. The multi-instrumental musician recorded a 4-track EP which was released in 2020, called 'Two Centuries of Silence'. Now it's Subsound Records that is releasing the EP in a limited vinyl format (red (100 copies) and black (200 copies)). Akvan's music is quite interesting since... Continue Reading →
Time flies and a moment that makes you aware of it is the fact when you realize that a band like The Quill is already more than 25 years in business. The self-titled debut was released in 1995 and a solid amount of longplayer followed. The latest record was the 2017 release of 'Born From... Continue Reading →
Just a few weeks ago it was Alice Cooper who unleashed with 'Detroit Stories' a 2021 highlight album and here comes another icon from Detroit rock city. Three years after having presented the 'No Control' album the legendary Suzy Quatro has with 'The Devil in Me' a new longplayer in the starting blocks. Suzy Quatro... Continue Reading →
Finnish melodic death metal masters INSOMNIUM proudly present their new single “The Conjurer”. Follow THIS LINK to watch the video, which was once again created by renowned director Vesa Ranta.The band comments:"We haven't been idle during the pandemic. 'The Conjurer' is a tragic tale of jealous and searing love that opens this new chapter for Insomnium. Monumental composition... Continue Reading →
German metal veterans Helloween had to postpone their tour also more than once due to the pandemic. Now, new dates have been announced. Under the banner of 'United Forces Tour 2022' the metal flagship will embark in March 2022 and with them on tour is no less than Hammerfall. 25-Mar-2022 NOR Oslo - Sentrum Scene26-Mar-2022 ... Continue Reading →
The concert Udo Dirkschneider played at Roman Amphitheater in Plovdiv, Bulgaria in Sept. 2020 was remarkable from two perspectives. First and most important, I guess it was the concert with the biggest audience in the pandemic year of 2020. U.D.O. performed in front of 2,500 fans and although the show took place in full compliance... Continue Reading →
Bergen-based metal pioneers Arve Isdal (Enslaved), Ivar Thormodsæter (Ulver) and Matias Monsen teamed-up under the banner of DROTT and it was a couple of weeks ago that the trio unleashed a first EP. The self-titled offer features four songs, all reflecting a wider range of sounds and musical influences. The EP begins with 'SHIKOBA', a songs... Continue Reading →
’Spiritual Violence’ is the new longplayer from Budderside, a band that premiered with a self-titled debut in 2016. It took a while for the guys to unleash their sophomore record but now it’s in sight. ’Spiritual Violence’ ends the waiting time and what we can state right away, with 39 minutes it’s again not an... Continue Reading →
A concert on March 15th, 2020 was certainly one of the last live events in the known setup. March 15th last year was the date of Lindemann performing two gigs in Moscow. The Rammstein frontman together with Peter Tägtgren played a couple of shows at VTB Arena in the Russian capitol right before worldwide lockdown... Continue Reading →
Six years after having unleashed their first live album, Swedish metal powerhouse Enforcer is ready to delight the metal community with a next live release. ‘Live by Fire II’ is a chronological next step that follows the 2015 release ‘Live by Fire’. Enforcer toured heavily in 2019 and amongst many other countries it was Mexico,... Continue Reading →
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