My World of Music – est. 2013
Jim Peterik and Toby Hitchcock are the driving forces when it comes to Pride Of Lions and I’m not really sure if everybody back in 2003 expected the band to be such a long time in business. Two decades after the debut album saw the light of day it is ‘Dream Higher’ being the seventh... Continue Reading →
Guitar virtuoso Joel Hoekstra is a busy guy. Not only is he part of Whitesnake and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Hoekstra is also playing guitar for Revolution Saint and even finds time for a next solo release. Under the banner of Joel Hoekstra’s 13 the axeman has a next release in the starting blocks. ‘Crash of... Continue Reading →
Graywolf is a band hailing from Switzerland. With savvy musicians on board, having played for bands like Celtic Frost, Emerald and Pure Inc., the quintet has enough firepower and experience to create an album that rocks; and the self-titled debut really rocks. With the background of the involved musicians the assumption regarding sound of Graywolf... Continue Reading →
Envy Of None released their debut album in April 2022 and is the collaboration of the iconic Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson and Andy Curran, a founding member of Coney Hatch. The ones that might have expected a rocking album with progressive songs was certainly a bit disappointed since Envy Of None takes a slightly different... Continue Reading →
Without much ado, Rival Sons have put a new record into the record stores. 'Darkfighter' is the name of the latest work of the guys from Long Beach, California and it contains eight new songs. It was blues-driven ‘Nobody Wants to Die’ which announced the new record already in October 2022 and a lot of... Continue Reading →
Outlanders, that is the moniker of a collaboration, including EDM pioneer Torsten Stenzel and Finish singer Tarja. The latter is well-known from her time with Nightwish, but also the impressive solo career Tarja is driving since many years. ‘Outlanders’, that is also the title of a debut album, the duo worked on for 10 years... Continue Reading →
The story of Avkrvst starts almost like a trailer for a movie. Two kids at the age of seven make a pact that they would start a band and release an album as soon as they get older. Now, this isn’t the beginning of a new blockbuster movie. It is the starting point of a... Continue Reading →
Bergen in Norway is known as the rock and metal melting pot when it comes to Norway. Many bands are hailing from the city at the Norwegian west coast, mostly bands rooted in black metal. But there are other bands too and one of them is Vulture Industries. The band started in 1998 as Dead... Continue Reading →
Denton, Texas is the homebase of a band called Creeping Death. The formation started back in 2015 and released with ‘Wretched Illusions’ a rather astonishing debut album. The following EP, entitled ‘The Edge of Existence’ was equally powerful and now it’s the right moment for unleashing the untamed next records. ‘Boundless Domain’ is the title... Continue Reading →
Jag Panzer belongs to the spearhead of heavy metal and their debut ‘Ample Destruction’ is a timeless milestone album to date. Unfortunately, the band disbanded in 1988 but returned five years later. Since then, Jag Panzer is a constant deliverer of great metal, even if the time between releases is rather long. This time it... Continue Reading →
Serpent Corpse is a rather new band, hailing from Montreal, Canada. The heavyweights have unleashed the other day a debut album called ‘Blood Sabbath’, a nine-track album with a lot of firepower. Rooted in oldschool death metal the quartet stands for straight forward songwriting that at no point becomes boring. Entombed and Bolt Thrower are... Continue Reading →
Australian powerhouse Witchskull started in 2014 and premiered in 2015 with an album called ‘The Vast Electric Dark’. This debut brought the band to the attention of Rise Above Records, the label of Lee Dorrian. The sophomore album ‘Coven’s Will’ was the first Witchskull album, released through the label and having unwrapped ‘A Driftwood Cross’... Continue Reading →
Fifth Angel belongs to the bands, hailing from the greater Seattle area. Bands like Queensryche, Sanctuary and Heir Apparent have/had their homebase there. Fifth Angel comes from the same area although Bellevue, Washington is on the other side of the Lake Washington. However, Fifth Angel belong to the bands I’m following since the very early... Continue Reading →
One of the bands that had an impact on the 80s hard rock scene are Ratt. The band started in 1976 as Mickey Ratt before transforming into Ratt in 1981. The heydays of the group started in 1984 when the band released with “Out of the Cellar” a debut that featured with ‘Round and Round’... Continue Reading →
Swedish metal outfit Scar Symmetry has already quite a track record. The band started in 2004 and went through different phases in which they offered their version of melodic death metal. From the raw and progressive debut to the acclaimed rather catchy ‘Holographic Universe’ the band offered different versions of their interpretation of melodic death... Continue Reading →
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