My World of Music – est. 2013
‘Dreams of Yesterday’ is the continuation of a project that had its beginning in 2021. Seb Byford and his father, the legendary Biff Byford worked together under the banner of Heavy Water and unveiled an album called ‘Red Brick City’. Originally being a lockdown project, the guys discovered a lot of fun working without boundaries... Continue Reading →
Primordial is one of the bands that I had of course all the time on my radar and I actually think the music is quite good. However, for reasons I can't explain, I had never looked deeper into the music of the four-piece from Ireland. A few days ago the new album 'How It Ends'... Continue Reading →
The new Graveyard album got a pretty simple title. ‘6’ is a statement as it is, what a surprise, the sixth longplayer from the Gothenburg-based rock band. More than five years after having release ‘Peace’ it is the new longplayer that brings nine new songs to the plate. It took Graveyard a while to finish... Continue Reading →
Black Stone Cherry is ‘Screamin’ at the Sky’, starting on September 29th, 2023. The four-piece of course isn’t literally screaming at the sky. It is their eighth studio album that listens to ‘Screamin’ at the Sky’ , a longplayer that carries 12 new songs. The songs were written while having been on tour and the... Continue Reading →
Subsignal belong to the great progressive rock bands hailing from Germany. Founded in 2007 as a side project following the end of the legendary Sieges Even, Subsignal evolved to one of the main players in this genre. After having launched their debut album ‘Beautiful & Monstrous’, the band added four additional records to their discography... Continue Reading →
Twenty years after started a success story with Volbeat, Michael Poulsen returns to his death metal roots. The singer and guitarist formed a death metal band called Dominus with which he launched four longplayers before moving on to Volbeat. Now he returns to his roots with Asinhell. Originally the moniker should be Full Of Hell,... Continue Reading →
Callejon belong to the most successful German metalcore bands. There albums enter the German charts on a regular base and their latest longplayer ‚Eternia‘ made it into the Top 10. Singer of the band is Bastian Sobtzick whose ceative flow is wider than Callejon only. In his role as creative director Sobtzick signs responsible artworks... Continue Reading →
German death metal outfit Necrotted started in 2008 and releases these days with ‘Imperium’ their fifth full-length album. The five-piece placed nine songs on the tracklist and each of them is a brutal riff assault that fuses blackened death metal with some deathcore moment. The blasting ‘Sow Sorrow For Victory’ shows the various influences very... Continue Reading →
From the moment Brujeria started back in 1989, there was a kind of mytserious hype about band. Much has to do with the fact that the band includes a lot of band members, well-known from other bands which makes Brujeria more to a collective than a band. With ‚Eso Es Brujeria‘ the next strike from... Continue Reading →
Balingen in Germany is known for the Bang Your Head festival which unfortunately doesn’t exist anymore. Now it is up to Traitor, hailing from there, to keep metal alive in Germany’s southwest. After having released four studio albums the band launch a new live album. It is already the second live release of the Teutonic... Continue Reading →
Cannibal Corpse belong to the trailblazers when it comes to death metal. Since 1988 the band belongs to the spearhead of a genre they actively supported to shape. Two years after having unleashed the ‚Violence Unimagined‘‘ album the five-piece returns with ‚Chaos Horrific‘. On their 16th longplayer, the masters of death metal continue their trip... Continue Reading →
German metal outfit Bonfire started in 1972. Guitarist Hans Ziller founded the band as Cacumen before a renaming into Bonfire took place in 1986. Sailing under a new flag, the band created some attention right away. ‚Don‘t Touch the Light‘ was the debut album that saw the light of day in 1986. The album didn‘t... Continue Reading →
Sunny California is the home of 3Teeth, the band that delivers these days their newest offering called ‚EndEx‘. Four years after having launched ‚Metawar‘ the band returns with their fourth album and delivers 12 new songs. As on the previous release, 3Teeth deliver industrial metal that reminds of bands like Marylin Manson. At the same... Continue Reading →
‚Mourning Moon‘ is the debut album of a band called Frozen Gasp. The Boston-based outfit released with Baptism of Desire‘ and ‚Hauntin Whispers‘ already two EP‘s, leading to a deal with Relapse Records. Musically, Frozen Gasp works in the fields of dark rock and metal. On the one hand I was reminded of some doom... Continue Reading →
‚Polar Veil‘ is the sixth album from Hexvessel and Mat McNerney managed for another time to give the current release an extra twist. Relying on the trademarks Hexvessel offer a blend of various genres. Black metal, folk, doom and rock; it all finds a spot in the eight songs that made it on the album. ... Continue Reading →
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