My World of Music – est. 2013
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 →
Firewing, not Gus G.’s Firewind, is a new metal band in town, hailing from the US. The quintet consists of Airton Araujo (v), Caio Kehyayan (g), Bruno Oliveira (g), Peter de Reyna (b) and Chris Dovas (d). With a passion for symphonic metal, the five guys penned 14 songs which found a spot on the... Continue Reading →
Witchbound is a band that has its roots in the early days of Stormwitch. With Stefan Kauffmann und Peter Langer, two of the Stormwitch veterans are on board and Witchbound might not be around if Stormwitch mastermind Lee Tarot wouldn't have started work on new songs before he passed away far too early in 2013.... Continue Reading →
After having unchained re-issues of the two Zed Yago classics 'From Over Yonder' and 'Pilgrimage', Velvet Viper release a new longplayer called 'Cosmic Healer'. It's the fifth album from Velvet Viper and it features ten songs plus an acoustic version of 'Götterdämmerung', originally from the 'The Pale Man is Holding a Broken Heart' album. Fans... Continue Reading →
In the second half of the glorious '80s, shredding was gaining momentum and brought some quite interesting bands and projects to surface. On of these shred guitarists was Marty Friedman, who, together with Jason Becker, was a driving force of Cacophony. After the duo disbanded, Friedman joined no less than thrash experts Megadeth and was... Continue Reading →
Gilby Clarke is known for his time with Guns’n’Roses during the first half of the ‘90s and there is much more too. Clarke released several solo albums, starting with ‘Pawnshop Guitars’ in 1994, He was part of bands like Candy, The MC5 and work with Slash in Slash’s Snakepit in 1995. With ‘The Gospel Truth’... Continue Reading →
Wait a second, is Bruce Dickinson singing in a new band called Icon Of Sin? The answer is 'no'. What leads to the impression though is the voice of Icon Of Sin frontman Raphael Mendes who reminds a lot of the iconic Iron Maiden singer. I can remember that I read in a comment on... Continue Reading →
To introduce Motörhead is like carrying sand to the beach. If you haven’t lived under rock for the last decades you couldn’t miss the band and their legendary frontman Lemmy Kilmister. Although Lemmy passed away far to early a few years ago there is still material available that faces a release. In this case it... Continue Reading →
Gore-iented lyrics and a splatter artwork, that belongs to Cannibal Corpse as well as the controversy discussions resulting of it. If a band can release 14 album though until now, it seems like the discussions never added any harm to Cannibal Corpse's rise in the fields of extreme metal and also the new longplayer 'Violence... Continue Reading →
High Roller Records started a while ago with a re-release series of metal classic that deserve attention and never really got the focus, when having been originally released. One of the longplayers is Tokyo Blade's sophomore record 'Night of the Blade', that belongs to the classics in heavy metal. At the time, Tokyo Blade was... Continue Reading →
Their are quite interesting news that reach us from Argentinian power metal unit Feanor. The South American sword and steel warriors started in 1996 and premiered in 2005 with 'Invencible'. In a five years rhythm, two additional longplayers have been unleashed before an interesting turn started to happen. Sticking to the five years rhythm, the... Continue Reading →
The Limit is a collaboration from the veterans having a history in punk and doom. Members of The Stooges and Testors reflect the punk attitude while Bobby Liebling (Pentagram) adds the doom metal influences and with Dawnrider, also metal impacts the sound on 'Caveman Logic'. What sounds like a wild combination works out in reality... Continue Reading →
Bewitcher, hailing from Portland Oregon, hit the road to the gates of hell in 2013 when M. Von Bewitcher and A. Magus began work on a first demo tape. After having added a drummer to the line-up things could evolve in a fast fashion with the self-titled debut being the first offer from Bewitcher. The... Continue Reading →
A band, that wrote one of the hymns of my youth is The Offspring. I don't know how often I listened to 'Self Esteem' and its iconic beginning. The songs had been played so often when we kids went out on the baseball field for circling the bases. That was in the '90s. In the... Continue Reading →
'Mutated Chaos', that almost sounds like a virus that is more than a disturbance of our daily life since a year. In this case, it's different. 'Mutated Chaos' is the title of a new EP, penned by Disembodiment. The quartet hail from the greater Montreal area in Canada and will release with 'Mutated Chaos' an... Continue Reading →
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