My World of Music – est. 2013
(8/10) Elvenking came into the picture in 1997 when singer Damna started the band. After having inked a deal with AFM Records the band premiered with ‘Heathenreal’ in 2001, the beginning of a fruitful cooperation over nearly two decades. 2019 is a kind of jubilee for Elvenking. Their new longplayer ‘Reader of the Runes –... Continue Reading →
(*/10) Metal pioneers Riot V, formerly Riot, are a band that is one of the most under-rated bands in powerful Heavy Metal. The guys are inspiration to so many younger bands are rose to underground legends. Unfortunately the step from underground to the big stage never really happened. Records like ‘Fire Down Under’ and ‘Born... Continue Reading →
(4/10) What started in a great fashion in 1989 became a trivial copy of their own peak moment. German J.B.O., hailing from Erlangen, started as a fun project with songs that metalized non-metal songs, cobined with some own tunes. 'Walk With an Erection' and 'Gimme Doop Joanna' are just two examples of the debut, songs... Continue Reading →
(*/10) Lordi belongs to group of bands everybody most probably has an opinion about. Some like them a lot while some others probably are happy when not hearing anything new from the Finns. However, Lordi started with 'Would You Love a Monster Man' something, that became a humorous horror show that was probably frightening to... Continue Reading →
(7/10) Kryptos is a forerunner when it comes to Heavy Metal hailing from India. The four-piece band from Bangalore has their roots in traditional Heavy Metal, spiced up with a solid portion of Thrash Metal. The quartet can look back on a long history in Metal and it was last year when Kryptos celebrated its... Continue Reading →
(8/10) D-A-D is one of the most important musical exports coming from Denmark. The band that premiered in 1986 with ‘Call of the Wild’ achieved a break-through three years later with the acclaimed ‘No Fuel Left For the Pilgrims’. Together with the equally good ‘Riskin’ It All’ longplayer D-A-D celebrated big successes and definitely had... Continue Reading →
(7/10) In times of Spotify, Deezer and others mixtapes lost it's fascination or better, were replaced by anonymous playlists. Actually you don't even get tapes anymore the way it was in the 80's when cassettes were the only way to capture music yourself. Mixtapes featured the essence of music you liked and/or were a cheap... Continue Reading →
(9/10) In case you read some of my earlier reviews you know that Toronto belongs to my favorite places. The Canadian metropole, also home of the Blue Jays, is the homebase of quite some rock- and metal bands with Danko Jones being one of them. The singer and guitarist premiered with 'Sugar Chocolate 7 in... Continue Reading →
(7/10) Swedish Bloodbound releases new records on a regular base and here‘s the newest one. ‚Rise of the Dragon Empire‘ is their first longplayer that comes through AFM Records, while there isn't that much other new. It‘s melodic power metal in the typical fashion you get offered by the Swedish sextet. Hooks, big melodies and... Continue Reading →
(8/10) Fans of Teutonic metal can positively look forward to March, the month when German metal veterans Iron Savior will release their newest album. It’s entitled ‘Kill or Get Killed’ and it’s the bands 11th full-length studio record. Band leader Piet Sielck started the band in 1996 together with no less than Kai Hansen and... Continue Reading →
As they prepare to finish a three-week U.S. headline tour tonight in Seattle, the Canadian hard rock trio Danko Jones has unveiled the Amir Chamdin-directed music video for their latest single, 'Dance Dance Dance'. The clip can be seen at this location. Photo: Dustin Rabin
(8/10) Rhapsody Of Fire is a band that found their success formula rather early in their career and they stick to it since then. ‘Legendary Tales’ introduced their symphonic metal in 1997 and was the starting point for 12 more records with ‘The Eighth Mountain' being the newest one. You don’t need to have a... Continue Reading →
(8/10) Herman Frank is best known for his work with German metal pioneers Accept. He was part of the legendary 'Balls to the Wall' album before he left the band after the album work was done. Frank returned to Accept in 2005 for some festival shows, followed by a reunion and three new longplayers. But... Continue Reading →
(8/10) The metal year 2019 starts fulminant. Swedish Evergrey spend some time in the studio during 2018 and recorded with ‘The Atlantic’ their next milestone. The record, being number 11 since 1993, is the final chapter of a trilogy that started in 2014 with the ‘Hymns for the Broken’ album. A second chapter was added... Continue Reading →
(8/10) In 1986 Internet wasn’t existing and the main source of information when it comes to metal were fanzines and partly radio.Especially the latter dealt with metal as being a side note in music and therefor it was even more appreciated that Swiss radio station DRS3 dedicated 2 hours to metal on a weekly base.... Continue Reading →
