My World of Music – est. 2013
'Deadlights' is Liar Thief Bandit's third longplayer and follows the debut from 2016 and the sophomore publication 'Straight Ahead' from 2018. The band, based in Malmö, Sweden dedicated themselves to garage rock, which the trio celebrates on twelve songs on the 'Deadlights' album. I have to admit that I wasn't familiar with the band and... Continue Reading →
'Fire in the Sky' is the new album from Escape, and not. Friends of AOR will surely know the band from Black Country/West Yorkshire from earlier times. It was in the beginning of 2011 when Vince O'Regan started this melodic rock band and two albums could be launched at that time before it became quiet... Continue Reading →
L.A. has the Hollywood Boulevard, Vienna has the Kärtnerstrasse. L.A. brought bands like Ratt and Mötley Crüe up to the surface, Vienna has Mädhouse. What all of these bands have in common is the shared passion for sleaze rock and glam metal. That Mötley Crüe, Ratt, Skid Row and others have been in a league... Continue Reading →
Female-fronted symphonic metal from The Netherlands, that brings a few names on the radar. Within Temptation, Epica and the disbanded Delain are bands that you think of right away. Blackbriar is a band that is passionate about the same genre and it was at the Delain concert in the early 2020 that I heard of... Continue Reading →
Riff and scream acrobats While She Sleeps started in 2006 and shared so far four longplayer with the metalcore community. The so far latest longplayer was send from the UK to the world in 2019 and was named ‘So What?’. The reception of the longplayer was a good one with the album entering the German... Continue Reading →
Vreid rose from the ashes of Windir and it was in 2004 when the band premiered with 'Kraft'. Since then, Vreid is a regular guest on the release schedule lists with eight longplayers that have been released so far. Following a kind of three years pattern, the year of 2021 is the one for a... Continue Reading →
Capra is a band, 'In Transmission' is an album and opinions can differ when it comes to the music. The wild blend of metal, punk and hardcore leads to music that is massive and furious. Although the start, '[Exordium]', is rather atmospheric, hell breaks loose with 'Hollow Doll'. 'In Transmission' is not an album that... Continue Reading →
Oceans published their full-length debut 'The Sun and the Cold' a bit more than a year ago and to keep the momentum rolling, the guys unleash with 'We are Nøt Okay' a next EP. With four songs, things are quite lucid and to the point. Compared to the debut, that was a bit all over... Continue Reading →
Mister Misery is hailing from Sweden and started in February 2018. Sparked by a passion for restless souls and the creepy stories, the quartet let their debut rise out of the casket in 2019. 'Unalive' is the title of the first Mister Misery longplayer and now it's time to focus on 'A Brighter Side of... Continue Reading →
The band name Ritual is certainly not a unique one. There are numerous bands with this moniker and one of the earlier bands under this banner are Ritual from the UK. It was in 1973 when the band was founded, and they have been active until 1995 before the trio disbanded. Ritual from London, UK,... Continue Reading →
The Flaming Sideburns is the brainchild of Eduardo Martinez, who moved at the end of the '80s to Finland, the home of his mother. Martinez found quickly his way into the Finnish rock scene and it was in 1995, when the official foundation of The Flaming Sideburns happened. The debut 'It's Time to Testify ...... Continue Reading →
Thrash metal in the '80s, that was the time of a new style in metal that slowly developed and brought bands like Metallica, Slayer, Exodus, and many more to the surface. San Francisco's Bay Area was one of the cradles for this rather aggressive way in heavy metal and while some bands made it to... Continue Reading →
If you listen to metal since the early ‘80s you are aware of the fact that there was traditional heavy metal around there even before Hammerfall pushed the re-active button in the ‘90s. One of the bands that unleashed longplayers at the time was Axewitch from Linköping. The guys premiered already in 1983 with an... Continue Reading →
Corrosion of Conformity, Motörhead, The Doors, Metal Church, and Down, these are the bands mentioned as influences for Sea Of Snakes and already the opener 'Let the Fire Burn' confirms what the label info promises. Sea Of Snakes, that is Jeff Murray, Mike Coffman, Jim McCloskey and Tracy Steiger. The quartet calls Los Angeles, California... Continue Reading →
Fresno, California is the homebase of Haunt, a band being the brainchild of Trevor William Church. Haunt is certainly belonging to the bands that is extremely productive. After having released a first EP called ‘Luminous Eyes’ in 2017, Church released with his powerhouse four longplayers with the fifth one being available since few days. ‘Beautiful... Continue Reading →
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