My World of Music – est. 2013
Statement from Nuclear Blast: Exodus' drummer Tom Hunting has revealed that he has been diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma. Today Tom begins his treatment and hopes his story helps raise awareness. Important statement from our man Tom Hunting: "Today I will be starting treatment for a squamous cell carcinoma. It's a gastric tumor that was diagnosed in my upper stomach... Continue Reading →
Flotsam And Jetsam, the Arizona-based thrash metal powerhouse, announced a new album. ‘Blood in the Water’ is the title of the upcoming new record that will be available on June 4th, 2021 and comes via AFM Records. The band unleashed with ‘Burn the Sky’ a first song that can be watched HERE. Says frontman Eric A.K.: "While... Continue Reading →
To introduce Motörhead is like carrying sand to the beach. If you haven’t lived under rock for the last decades you couldn’t miss the band and their legendary frontman Lemmy Kilmister. Although Lemmy passed away far to early a few years ago there is still material available that faces a release. In this case it... Continue Reading →
Gore-iented lyrics and a splatter artwork, that belongs to Cannibal Corpse as well as the controversy discussions resulting of it. If a band can release 14 album though until now, it seems like the discussions never added any harm to Cannibal Corpse's rise in the fields of extreme metal and also the new longplayer 'Violence... Continue Reading →
High Roller Records started a while ago with a re-release series of metal classic that deserve attention and never really got the focus, when having been originally released. One of the longplayers is Tokyo Blade's sophomore record 'Night of the Blade', that belongs to the classics in heavy metal. At the time, Tokyo Blade was... Continue Reading →
Their are quite interesting news that reach us from Argentinian power metal unit Feanor. The South American sword and steel warriors started in 1996 and premiered in 2005 with 'Invencible'. In a five years rhythm, two additional longplayers have been unleashed before an interesting turn started to happen. Sticking to the five years rhythm, the... Continue Reading →
The Limit is a collaboration from the veterans having a history in punk and doom. Members of The Stooges and Testors reflect the punk attitude while Bobby Liebling (Pentagram) adds the doom metal influences and with Dawnrider, also metal impacts the sound on 'Caveman Logic'. What sounds like a wild combination works out in reality... Continue Reading →
Bewitcher, hailing from Portland Oregon, hit the road to the gates of hell in 2013 when M. Von Bewitcher and A. Magus began work on a first demo tape. After having added a drummer to the line-up things could evolve in a fast fashion with the self-titled debut being the first offer from Bewitcher. The... Continue Reading →
I cannot remember The Treatment having released a bad album and their newest longplayer 'Waiting For Good Luck' is no break of this tradition. The guys from the UK premiered in 2011 with 'This Might Hurt' and has with the newest longplayer already their fifth record listed in the record stores. Good time rock'n'roll, catchy... Continue Reading →
A band, that wrote one of the hymns of my youth is The Offspring. I don't know how often I listened to 'Self Esteem' and its iconic beginning. The songs had been played so often when we kids went out on the baseball field for circling the bases. That was in the '90s. In the... Continue Reading →
'Mutated Chaos', that almost sounds like a virus that is more than a disturbance of our daily life since a year. In this case, it's different. 'Mutated Chaos' is the title of a new EP, penned by Disembodiment. The quartet hail from the greater Montreal area in Canada and will release with 'Mutated Chaos' an... Continue Reading →
Cro-Mags have been ready to embark on a worldwide tour with a supposed start at Webster Hall in New York City in March 2020. The tour never got off the ground due to the upcoming pandemic, with gatherings and concerts having been banned. To not become paralyzed and passive, Harley Flanagan and band mates played... Continue Reading →
Brooklyn, NY's powerhouse Life Of Agony used the concert-less time of a pandemic to put the finishing touches to a documentary called 'The Sound of Scars'. It was two years ago, when UK-based director Leigh Brooks started the project, a documentary that was filmed across several countries while Life Of Agony was on and off... Continue Reading →
What's a real supergroup? Often, these kind of 'supergroups' should be labeled as 'bands with known musicians included'. In the case of Liquid Tension Experiment we can truly talk about a supergroup for two reasons: the stellar musical capabilities and the songs that are jaw-dropping. What the quartet delivers on the third longplayer is the... Continue Reading →
Any plans for May 1st this year? If not, Devin Townsend just announced a live stream event called 'Quarantine Project'. Townsend will perform the album ‘Ocean Machine: Biomech’ in its entirety via Single Music’s live stream platform. The show will be live on May 1st, 12 noon PDT, 3pm EDST, 20:00 GST, 21:00 CEST, 5am AEST. All... Continue Reading →
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