My World of Music – est. 2013
French metal outfit Fractal Universe started in 2013 and let the debut album ‘Engram of Decline’ off the leash in 2017. This record paved the way for the band to sign a deal with Metal Blade Records, who released the sophomore album ‘Rhizomes of Insanity’ in 2019. Another three years later the quartet add a... Continue Reading →
A CEO is defined as Chief Executive Officer and the definition is now enlarged with The CEO also being a metal band, hailing from the US. The Georgia-based powerhouse features with Vince Hornsby the bassist from Sevendust, who together with his bandmates Chase Brown, Beau Anderson and Joseph Herman stands for The CEO and band... Continue Reading →
Timing is often everything. Being at the right moment at the right place is as good as delivering the right album at the right time. ‘Stranger D’Amour’ is such an album that fits perfectly into the European summer season. Fargo, the name says it already, is the brainchild of Fargo Peter Knorn. ‘Fargopedda’, together with... Continue Reading →
Timo Tolkki, that was one of the driving forces of Stratovarius, the Finnish metal outfit that released a solid number of excellent metal albums in a time, when a lot of metal bands struggled. After having parted way with Stratovarius, the guitarist started with Timo Tolkki’s Avalon and own project/band that premiered in 2013. The... Continue Reading →
Crowne and ‘Kings in the North’, that seems to be a very royal release that we get offered by Frontiers Music. If the Swedish melodic rock powerhouse will become the king in the North is something, future will bring to surface, or not. What is a given is the fact that the prerequisites are in... Continue Reading →
Fear Factory is a band that has great albums being part of their discography. Album like the legendary ‘Soul of a New Machine’ and ‘Demanufacture’ are classics, featuring music that perfectly fuses the power of metal with the cold chill of industrial sounds. Also part of Fear Factories story are quite some changes in the... Continue Reading →
Interloper from California, that is Andrew Virrueta, Aaron Stechauner and Miles Baker. The foundation of Interloper happened in 2014 and it took a while before things became tangible. Two independently released singles have marked the start that led to a contract signing with Nuclear Blast and a first EP, that was revealed in early 2021.... Continue Reading →
Do you miss hair spray metal from the eighties? Or are band like Mötley Crüe, Ratt, Loverboy and Def Leppard you favorite hard rock outfits? In case you can at least answer one of the questions with ‘yes’, then you shouldn’t miss this quintet from Nottingham, UK. Midnite City is the name of a band... Continue Reading →
Heavy metal and the Cavalera family, that was always a tight entity. Sepultura, Soulfly and the Cavalera Conspiracy, all these band were and are closely connected to the name Cavalera and with Go Ahead And Die a next band continues the endeavor. Was it so far the brothers Max and Igor, being the metallic forces,... Continue Reading →
Lacuna Coil isn’t short of live albums with the latest live release being ‘The 119 Show – Live in London’ from 2018. From this angle, a next live album wasn’t a necessary thing, but in a time when only the uncertain is certain, things changed. Not being able to tour and play shows in front... Continue Reading →
Italian metallers Rhapsody Of Fire released their latest album ‘The Eighth Mountain’ in 2019. To bridge the waiting time for the next full-length longplayer, the symphonic metal powerhouse decided to release an EP that is available since a few days. ‘I’ll Be Your Hero’ is the precursor of the new album and features a new... Continue Reading →
Grief Collector is a band name that is certainly known by doom metal insiders. This can have various reasons, but the two most plausible ones are that one listened already to 'From Dissension to Avowal', the EP that was released in 2019. And/or you know frontman Rob Lowe from his time with bands like Candlemass,... Continue Reading →
It was in November 2016 when the news of Helloween United travelled around the globe in no time. Hamburg's metal institution announced a world tour and the sensational part was the fact of Michael Kiske and Kai Hansen rejoining the legendary band and the, at the time, operating line-up. This news was almost too good... Continue Reading →
Fans of American metallers Pharaoh had to be patient for quite a while. They had to wait nine long years before the fifth album of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania- based quartet finds a way into the record stores. The guys premiered in 2003 with the 'After the Fire' album and went through a pretty consistent release... Continue Reading →
Let's start this review with some name-dropping. Tracii Guns, Rudy Sarzo, Jeff Duncan, Snowy Shaw and some more, all these exquisite musicians are part of Social Disorder. The mainman of Social Disorder though is someone else. The project is the brainchild of Swedish-born Anders Rönnblom (Killer Bee, X-Romance and Wolfpakk). 'Love 2 Be Hatred' is... Continue Reading →
