My World of Music – est. 2013
Since Bloodbound started in 2005, they stay true to their style and sound. Melodic power metal from the North is what the guys stand for. Captured on various longplayers, the Swedes never disappointed and could build-up a solid fanbase over time. With 'Creatures of the Dark Realm', the next album, number nine, waits in line... Continue Reading →
One of the good things, 2020 provided, was some extra time that allowed us to do things that usually have been pushed forward to nowhere in time or never seemed to be the first choice of activities. What goes for individuals has been also the case for bands. Ventura, California-based Cirith Ungol made good use... Continue Reading →
Listening to Burning Witches' newest album is like a curveball that approaches you. The band from Switzerland released a great debut and also the sophomore record 'Hexenhammer' was a real heavy metal treat. A break came when singer Seraina Telli left the band in 2019. Dutch vocalist Laura Guldemond joined and it took a while... Continue Reading →
Esa Holopainen is known as founding member and guitarist of Amorphis, one of the strong representatives of Finnish metal. It was in spring 2020 when Holopainen received a phone call from Nino Laurenne, producer and owner of the Sonic Pump, which is a recording facility. The core question to the guitarist was, if it wouldn't... Continue Reading →
"1-2-3-4", this count brings different associations to the forefront. Musically it is very much connected to The Ramones and since a while it is a German band that uses the same counting, just totally different. German black metal stalwarts Abkehr have with 'In Blut' a third album in the pipeline, a four songs featuring release... Continue Reading →
Rock and metal from Switzerland, that’s for a lot of metal fans connected to names like Celtic Frost, Krokus, Gotthard, Shakra and others. A band that represent the post-metal scene, coming from Lake Geneva, is Impure Wilhelmina. Founded 25 years ago, the band established itself as an important act in their home country with growing... Continue Reading →
Who thought that the most creepy thing of a Lindemann concert isn't lyrics or the show. Looking at the newest release of the iconic singer, it is the big audience that came together at the beginning of the upcoming pandemic that seems so unreal these days. Lindemann, that was Till Lindemann and Peter Tägtgren until... Continue Reading →
In a time, when joy of heavy metal was a wider experience than listening to vinyls and watching streaming events, Finnish metal veterans Amorphis played a home-game show at Helsinki Ice Hall. The concert took place at December 7th, 2019, a time when the pandemic was already lurking in the East. It feels like it... Continue Reading →
It was in November 2019 when Marillion played a concert at St. David’s Hall in Cardiff, being part of the ‘Marillion With Friends from the Orchestra Live 2019’ tour. What paved the way for such an undertaking had its beginning in a collaboration of the rock veterans with the ‘In Praise of Folly’ string quartet,... Continue Reading →
Jess And The Ancient Ones are an exciting band. The Finns, hailing from Kuopio, started in 2010 and released three longplayers to date. Jess, Thomas Corpse, Fast Jake, Yussuf and Abraham, that’s the line-up that worked on the next release, an album called Vertigo’. The new longplayer is the carrier of eight new songs of... Continue Reading →
Starlight Ritual is a Canadian band that has it headquarter in the greater Montreal area in Canada. Founded in 2013, the quintet could unleash two EP and what was missing to date was the full-length debut. Five years after the ‘Age of the Universe’ has been revealed, Starlight Ritual close the gap with ‘Sealed in... Continue Reading →
A Pale Horse Named Death have announced their new album 'Infernum In Terra' for September 24th, 2021 via Long Branch Records / SPV. 'Infernum In Terra' is the fourth studioalbum by the band led by founding Type O Negative and Life of Agony member Sal Abruscato and has been mastered by Maor Appelbaum (Faith No More, Meat Loaf, Yes, Sepultura, Halford etc.) at Maor Appelbaum Mastering (California,USA) while the artwork was done... Continue Reading →
High Roller Records continues their re-release series with blasts from the past. Like the earlier re-issues indicated already, the label doesn't look too much into the well-known stuff. It's more of the underground bands and records from the '80s that face a new shine in the '20s. This time it is a record that has... Continue Reading →
As everybody know, Chris Boltendahl and Axel Ritt are the driving forces behind legendary Grave Digger. Next to ‘mothership’, the veterans had the idea of starting a project that puts the origin of metal to forefront, or how they call it “Dirty Kick Ass Heavy Metal”. Having such an idea is one thing and finding... Continue Reading →
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