My World of Music – est. 2013
(7/10) Baseball fans know Cleveland since it’s the home of the Cleveland Indians. Non-baseball fans might know the baseball team due to the movie from the eighties and metal fans know the city, because of its vital metal scene. One metallic ambassador, hailing from there, is Wretch. The quintet has already two albums on their... Continue Reading →
(7/10) ‘Flames of Eternity’ is Imperia’s fifth album, featuring 11 new songs and a piano version of ‘Mother’. The quartet with band members from various countries has its roots in the early 2000th. Imperia is the brainchild of singer Helena Michaelsen, being the drivers of the band that also includes Steve Wolz, Gerry Verstreken and... Continue Reading →
(9/10) Legendary rock guitarist Steve Hackett doesn't need a long introduction. Everybody, who's excited about rock music, knows the guitarist from London, either from his years with Genesis, his appearance on the two GTR albums or from his numerous solo releases. The master of soulful guitar play finished work on his new solo album, which... Continue Reading →
(8/10) Rhapsody Of Fire is a band that found their success formula rather early in their career and they stick to it since then. ‘Legendary Tales’ introduced their symphonic metal in 1997 and was the starting point for 12 more records with ‘The Eighth Mountain' being the newest one. You don’t need to have a... Continue Reading →
(8/10) Six long years went by with the metal world not facing a new album of Swedish Diabolical. The wait has an end though. 'Eclipse' will be unleashed mid February, an album that comes with nine new songs. 'Eclipse' is a concept album focussing on the dark sides of humanity. This concept is weaved into... Continue Reading →
(7/10) Well, it's this kind of releases that are a curveball for reviewers. What to say about Beast In Black's second strike? The band, started by former Battle Beast member Anton Kabanen, released a debut in 2017, which is now accompanied by the sophomore release 'From Hell With Love'. Actually not that much changed within... Continue Reading →
(10/10) The rise of Avantasia, happening during the last almost twenty years, is an impressive one. Mainman and founder Tobias Sammet started the project in 1999 with “The Metal Opera’ being the first longplayer that hit the record stores. What started rather small became one of the most remarkable metal opera projects in the here... Continue Reading →
(8/10) Singer Mikael Erlandsson isn't a new kid at the block. The Gothenburg-based frontman started his career in the late '70s as a drummer of punk band, something that's hard to imgine while listening to his new solo album 'Capricorn Six'. Erlandsson's main band though is Last Autumn's Dream, but it has been the solo... Continue Reading →
(8/10) UK rockers Inglorious had to face some rough times. There was a lot of movement when it comes to the line-up of the Hard Rock powerhouse. Band leader Nathan James had to renew the band after Colin Parkinson, Andreas Eriksson and Drew Lowe left in autumn 2018, after recording Inglorious' third album. The work... Continue Reading →
(7/10) Rosy Vista is a band that might not be known by many metalheads. The all-girls-band was active between 1984 and 1989, a period in which they released an EP and two 7” singles. Also some tour activities took place in those five years, opening for act like Uriah Heep and Motley Crue. What could... Continue Reading →
(8/10) 'Gun to Mouth Salvation' is an album you couldn't really expect. Carnal Frorge released their previous longplayer back in 2007, faced a hiatus and returned in 2013. The band pulled oneself together and started to work on new material, although the next longplayer wasn't in sight at that time. 'When All Else Falls', a... Continue Reading →
(7/10) Germany's thrash metal scene includes with Kreator, Destruction and Sodom some real pioneers and it's these legendary thrash bands that constantly inspire young bands up to date. Bands like Traitor gained momentum over the last years and here comes another band that wants to leave their footprint. Ravager from Lower Saxony was founded four... Continue Reading →
(7/10) 'One Night in Milan' isn't the first Frontiers Music live release that was recorded in the Italian metropol and I guess it will not be the last one either. This time it's hard rock veterans Quiet Riot that played a show at Frontiers Rock festival 2018, a show that has been recorded and is... Continue Reading →
(9/10) German metalers Deserted Fear come up with their fourth longplayer and it’s certainly the best to date. Originally hailing from Eisenberg (Translated into English it means Iron Mountain), Manuel Glatter (g/v) and Fabian Hildebrandt (g) moved to Jena during the last years, which added a new dynamic to Desert Fear’s music. ‘Drowned by Humanity’... Continue Reading →
(7/10) Kane Roberts is known for being the guitarist of Alice Cooper in the second half of the ‘80s and he’s also known for his ‘Rambo-like’ appearance that makes a guitar look like a tooth stick (although it was shaped as a M-80 machine gun). Next to the successful collaboration with Alice Cooper, Roberts also... Continue Reading →
