My World of Music – est. 2013
Canada-based Metal force Katakylsm release their new longplayer 'Unconquered' as we speak (read). It's their 14th longplayer in the bands long history, a story that started nearly 30 years ago in Montreal, Quebec. 'Unconquered', a well-chosen title for the world we are living in in right now, has an approach of brutality beating filigree. Kataklysm's... Continue Reading →
Chief growler Chris Barnes is back with his Death Metal crusher Six Feet Under. 'Nightmares of the Decomposed' is already album number seventeen, penned by Barnes. I don't consider myself being the biggest Six Feet Under fan but what Barnes and bandmates deliver with their newest offer is thrilling. With many band members joining and... Continue Reading →
The other day an album crossed my path that might has been a bit under-represented this year. The moniker of the band is Gaupa and the guys are from Sweden, from Falun to be precise. Gaupa is a quintet, consisting of Erik Jerka-Sävstroem (b), Jimmy Hurtig (d), Danial Nygren (g), David Rosberg (g) and Emma... Continue Reading →
The Northmen return with a new album called 'Utgard', three years after 'E' was shipped from Norway to the rest of the world. 'Utgard', the outerworld, has its roots in Nordic mythology. There is with Midgard the area of humans and there is Asgard, where the Gods are at home. Utgard is beyond the two,... Continue Reading →
In difficult times, live albums at least bring a bit of a live feeling to your home. Such a live release is now announced by Autopsy, the band's first live album ever. The Death Metal veterans recorded a how they played on March 7th, 2020, so right ahead of the lockdown, at Reggie's Rock Club... Continue Reading →
The Metal trolls are back and different to the internet trolls these ones are very welcome. It’s Finntroll that launch their next longplayer in September, a next chapter of a story, Somnium and Katla probably didn’t have in mind when founding the band in a rehearsal room back in 1997. Deviating from traditional Black Metal,... Continue Reading →
The collective is back. Nearly two years after 'Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic' entered the German album charts, The Ocean return with their eighth album. 'Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic' features eight songs, being the announced second part of the conceptual approach the band started in 2018. Both records are supposed to close the gap between 'Precambrian'... Continue Reading →
Norwegian death metallers Cadaver announce a new longplayer a few month after returning with the 'D.G.A.F.' EP. Release date is November 27th and the record comes through Nuclear Blast. Anders Odden comments, "I met Dirk Verbeuren during the 70000 Tons Of Metal festival in 2014. He was sitting in for Frost in SATYRICON and we played 2... Continue Reading →
Latest activities at My Dying Bride led to a next EP the band announce for November 20th this year. The band raise the curtain for 'Macabre Cabaret', a new EP that also includes 'A Secret Kiss'. Singer Aaron Stainthorpe states:“'Macabre Cabaret' delves into the shadow empire of dark love and the consequences of unchecked sexuality. The deep... Continue Reading →
Dream Theater announce a live release called 'Distant Memories - Live in London'. The album is scheduled for November 27th and it will be their ninth live album. Base for this release is a sold-out show at Apollo Theater in London, focussing on 'Distance Over Time' and the 20 years anniversary of 'Metropolis Part 2... Continue Reading →
'Suffer For Nothing' is Morta Skuld's second album in their second era. The band that started in the early '90s and added some releases to the books of which 'Surface' marked the ending of the first phase of brute Death Metal. The veterans from Milwaukee re-started their Death Metal engine in 2012 and it took... Continue Reading →
Stockholm-based Lik (the Swedish word for "corpse), release with 'Misanthropic Breed' their third album, a longplayer with a title that's very relevant these days in various ways. Lik was founded in 2014, with a debut album that alighted from the moistly soil of Stockholm in 2015. 'Misanthropic Breed' follows 'Carnage' from 2018 and marks a... Continue Reading →
The last show of Steve Hackett's 'Genesis Revisited 2019'-tour took place at Hammersmith Eventim Apollo in London, England. As the title of this tour announces, Hackett went back in time, days when he was guitarist with Genesis. 'Selling England by the Pound', originally released in 1973, is Genesis' fifth full-length album and Hackett's favorite record... Continue Reading →
Brother Firetribe started their ear-candy production again and the result is their fifth longplayer called 'Feel the Burn'. That the guys are on fire when it comes to catchy Rock songs is what they showed on their earlier records and the new release didn't bring a change of musical direction. Three years after having launched... Continue Reading →
Norwegian Art-Rock veterans Gazpacho are for sure belonging to spearhead of progressive music, hailing from the Scandinavian country. Delivering numerous longplayers in 17 years means a lot of experience the guys utilize for working on new material. This approach and effort capitalizes in a new offer from Gazpacho, called 'Fireworker'. Although being the opener, 'Space... Continue Reading →
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