My World of Music – est. 2013
Essen-based The Night Eternal belong to the rising starts in the current times. The first time The Night Eternal appeared on the scene was in 2019 when the guys released a self-titled EP. With the pandemic ahead, the timing wasn’t perfect, and it speaks to the willpower of the band to bit through. Commitment and... Continue Reading →
The last time I saw Eleine live was when the guys have been on the acoustic tour with Sonata Arctica. That was in autumn last year and a few months later the band returns with their next studio album. I honestly wasn’t too much thrilled when it comes to the first three longplayers. I was... Continue Reading →
Evile, hailing from the UK, started in 2004 after having been around for five years as Metal Militia. After having unleashed the debut album ‘Enter the Grave’ back in 2007, the four-piece band managed to establish themselves as a young and hungry metal outfit with great songs. 2023 faces the next Evile longplayer and it... Continue Reading →
Withering Scorn is new outfit, featuring Henning Basse on vocals, Glen Dover (g), Joe Dibiase (b) and Shawn Dover on drums. The band was founded in 2020 and is the brainchild of Dover brothers. The four-piece band focusses on heavy metal without frills and gimmicks. The power of the riff is what drives the sound... Continue Reading →
When I was a kid I was fascinated by ‘Nobel Savage’, the classic from Virgin Steele. Music and artwork fit perfectly together and each song on this record is a little treat. Virgin Steele continued with a few additional records, thinking about longplayers like ‘Invictus’. End of June, the next Virgin Steele longplayer will be... Continue Reading →
Vendetta from Schweinfurt, Germany belongs to the veterans of German metal. Having released with ‘Go and Live … Stay and Die’ and ‘Brain Damage’ two acclaimed longplayers in the 80s the band decided to part ways in 1990. After years of absence Vendetta returned in 2002 and released with ‘Hate’ a new longplayer. Having found... Continue Reading →
European Song Contest (ESC) and Season Of Mist is a combination that one might not have expected to read a couple of years ago. But times constantly changes, and Voyager is the bridge between the two poles. The Australians have been the first band from Down Under that joined the song contest and ended up... Continue Reading →
One of the shining stars of progressive music stopped at one of the most established venues in Hamburg and the best thing, the show was recorded and is now available in various formats. It was nearly a year ago that The Neal Morse Band (NMB) played a show at Markthalle, Hamburg in front of enthusiastic... Continue Reading →
‘Tailgunner’, that is a song from Iron Maiden who published the track on the ‘No Prayer For the Dying’ album and I guess it isn’t a coincidence that a new powerhouse from UK named themselves Tailgunner. Inspired by the NWoBHM and the sound of the 80s, the quintet from England charged their album with a... Continue Reading →
To celebrate 40 exciting years in sci-fi thrash metal, Canadian powerhouse Voivod is turning as we speak and just played a thunderous show at Markthalle, Hamburg. Furthermore, the quartet has with ‘Morgöth Tales’ a new album in the starting blocks. A look on the tracklist of the album shows some familiar titles and the question... Continue Reading →
Massachusettes-based Death Ray Vision unleash their third studio album called ‘No Mercy from Electric Eyes’, a 12-song featuring longplayer with a lot of punching power. The band started in 2010 and three years later the debut ‘We Ain’t Leavin’ Till You’re Bleeding’. The guys are rooted in hardcore and punk but always have been open... Continue Reading →
Japanese metal veterans Church Of Misery have finished work on their newest longplayer ‘Born Under a Mad Sign’. Seven songs is what the four-piece band recorded and a look on the line-up shows some significant changes. The first remarkable thing is, that frontman Kazuhiro Asaeda rejoined the Japanese metal force. The singer was already part... Continue Reading →
Steve Lukather is since 1977 one of the crucial pillars of rock outfit Toto. He started the band together with Bobby Kimball, David Paich. David Hungate and Jeff Porcaro. The band embarked on an exciting musical journey that is ongoing to date. In parallel Lukather also unleashed solo albums of which the ninth one reaches... Continue Reading →
It was a lot of buzz the moment The Hu appeared on the metal scene. Mongolian folk metal wasn’t something headbangers have heard before and metal with some added traditional Mongolian instruments felt ike something exciting. That was back in 2016 and in the meantime The Hu evolved to an established player in metal. With... Continue Reading →
Inspired by a legion of bolt throwers and packed with Viking muscles, that is what characterizes the sound of the multi-national death metal horde called Extermination Order. Then five-piece powerhouse features musicians from California, Iceland, and Germany. With guitarist Maik Weichert (Heaven Shall Burn) and drummer Matthias Voigt (former Heaven Shall Burn) two guys with... Continue Reading →
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