My World of Music – est. 2013
When Attic premiered in 2012 with ‘The Invocation’ immediate attention was guaranteed. The most obvious reason were the falsetto vocals by frontman Meister Cagliostro which remined so much of King Diamond. His way of singing in a high-pitch is still one of the trademarks of Attic while it is face-paint that also shows where the... Continue Reading →
Human Abyss is a band, hailing from Berlin. The musical focus of the five-piece band is on oldschool death metal, which they blend with a blackened foundation. The band delivers with ‘death Obsessed’ their second longplayer and it is another raging and melancholic journey through the realms of the human soul. In a way the... Continue Reading →
Alligatoah is an artist some of you might have heard of but maybe not have listened to. One of the reasons might be the fact, that the singer is more connected to rap and pop than rock and metal. Even more, one of the songs on the latest studio album is entitled ‘Fuck Rock’n’Roll’. The... Continue Reading →
‚Demons‘, that’s the title of Nonexister’s debut album that hits the shelves these days. The band is the brainchild of Marco Neeser and Nik Leuthold. Both guys have a different musical imprint that goes from electronic sounds to punk rock and after running into each other on several occasions, the duo decided to start a... Continue Reading →
One of the most established extreme metal bands from Belgium, that is Aborted. Although the origins of the band are rooted in East Flanders, Aborted became more and more a multi-national band and it is frontman Sven de Caluwé who keeps things up and running. The band premiered in 1999 with an album called ‘The... Continue Reading →
Linda, Ben and Freed are back. The three joined forces in 2016 and have been on the go as Scorched Oak ever since. The debut album 'Withering Earth' followed a few years down the line, in 2020 to be precise. For well-known reasons, this was a difficult time for the entire industry, but Scorched Oak... Continue Reading →
Hamilton, Ontario, that’s the homebase of Lutharo. The band started in 2014 and it took a few years before the guys could launch a debut album. ‘Hiraeth’ is the title of this first full-length release which helped the band to get the attention Atomic Fire Records. With ‘Chasing Euphoria’ the sophomore album waits in the... Continue Reading →
The mixture of Irish roots and punk music is nothing new, and here is a band from Germany that puts together what belongs together. Mr. Irish Bastard is a group from Münster, Germany that was founded in 2006. Their first release, an EP called "St. Mary's School of Drinking", was launched in 2008 and along... Continue Reading →
‘In the Twilight Grey’ is Necrophobic’s tenth studio album and it took the band a bit longer than usual to finish work on this longplayer. To blame is the pandemic as the predecessor ‘Dawn of the Damned’ has been released in 2020 and moment to promote the release have been very rare. Therefor a lot... Continue Reading →
Whom Gods Destroy is a new group with well-known protagonists. Derek Sherinian and Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal are part of this outfit and with Dino Jelusick, a talented singer takes over the vocal parts, while Yas Nomura and Bruno Valverde form the rhythm section of Whom Gods Destroy. Sherinian and Thal initiated the group, both having... Continue Reading →
Portland is the home base of a four-piece band that embarked on a journey through the realms of death metal in 2011. The name of the band: Skeletal Remains. The group released their debut album in 2012, followed by three additional full-lengths over the past few years. Now, 'Fragments of the Ageless' marks the next... Continue Reading →
More than just a few veteran thrash metal bands returned during the last years and here is another one. Atrophy have with ‘Asylum’ a new longplayer in the starting blocks and what will reach us from Tuscon, Arizona is a thundering thrash metal release. Atrophy belong to the fwave of thrash metal bands with roots... Continue Reading →
There are just a few bands like Judas Priest. For 19 albums and more than 50 years of heavy metal, the band has shown no signs of fatigue. Despite a few controversial albums, Judas Priest has never really disappointed, and it was the return of metal god Rob Halford in 2003 that gave the band... Continue Reading →
Wade Black, some of you might remember the singer from his days with Crimson Glory. Black was part of theline-up that recorded the ‘Astronomica’ album which was Crimson Glory’s attempt to connect to the great debut and the excellent ‘Transcendence’ album. Even though the album wasn’t a bad one, Crimson Glory didn't unveil the vibe... Continue Reading →
It wasn’t the best time for a thrash metal band to start in the early 90s. After metal in general had its peak during the 80s the upcoming subgenres of rock and metal took attention in the next decade and made life for bands like Exhorder not very easy. Despite this trend, the band unleashed... Continue Reading →
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