My World of Music – est. 2013
Oceanhoarse hail from Finland and state 2016 as the year of their founding. Thus, the four Finns are not exactly to be called newcomers. At the same time, it took a little while for Oceanhoarse to get their debut album into record stores. In the midst of the pandemic, the quartet released 'Dead Reckoning' in... Continue Reading →
eMolecule is the band of Simon Collins and Kelly Nordstrom. With 'The Architect' the two have finished their debut album, which will hit the record stores these days. The collaboration of the both started already in 2005 in Vancouver, Canada and focused at the beginning on Collins' solo career. This fueled the creativity of the... Continue Reading →
ZSK is a German punk rock band, hailing from Göttingen. The guys started back in 1997 and unleashed a demo the same year. Nowadays ZSK belongs to the established bands when it comes to punk rock with a noticeable number of releases over the last 25 years. The second era of the band began in... Continue Reading →
We have known that hard rock made in Australia is a quality feature at least since AC/DC. In addition, bands like Rose Tattoo and Airbourne have delighted the world with excellent rock music. In addition, The Poor have been drawing attention to themselves since 1986 with well-made hard rock. Started as The Poor Boys, the... Continue Reading →
The good thing with ‘Homicidal Ecstasy’ is the fact, that the Sanguisugabogg album includes a sheet with vocals. This is mainly since Devin Swank ‘pukes’ out his growls in a way that you basically are impressed but don’t follow of what he is singing, or better growling. The band from Columbus, Ohio started in 2019... Continue Reading →
DeWolff belongs to the exciting acts in rock and blues. The Dutch outfit is active since 2007 and it’s Luka and Pable van de Poel as well as Robin Piso, who bring the sound od of blues to Holland. The career started in 2008 with DeWolff winning a national talent competition. This was the beginning... Continue Reading →
…And Oceans isn’t exactly what you call a new band. The Finns premiered already in 1998 with ‘The Dynamic Gallery of Thoughts’ and started to establish their interpretations of symphonic black metal. The band went to work with enthusiasm and added three additional longplayers to the books before they changed into Havoc Unit. This was... Continue Reading →
Issa, that is Oslo-born singer Isabell Øversveen who started the outfit in 2010. Issa has six longplayers in the books and number seven is marking the start of a new year in rock. ‘Lights of Japan’ is the title of the newest work piece of the Norwegian singer and contains eleven songs. ‘Live Again’ is... Continue Reading →
Big City is the brainchild of Daniel Olaisen who started the band and gave the outfit an 80’s rock and melodic metal sound. The 2014 released debut album gave a first taste of what the Norwegians stand for and the newest record ‘Sunwind Sails’ marks the fourth release of the five-piece band. In 2019, Big... Continue Reading →
Imperium Dekadenz belong to the longtimer players when it comes to German extreme metal. The duo, consisting of Vespasian and Horaz, started 2004 and brought black metal to the black forest. From their homebase Villingen-Schwenningen, the duo started to take metal fans heart by storm in 2006 when the band launched their debut album. ‘…und... Continue Reading →
After more than 50 years in the music business, it's not really necessary anymore to introduce Uriah Heep. Mick Box and his bandmates have released timeless hard rock classics with hits like 'Lady in Black' and 'Easy Livin'', just to name the most famous ones. Uriah Heep have just finished their '50 Years Anniversary' tour,... Continue Reading →
The name Victor Smolski should be familiar to most of you. The multi-instrumentalist started his solo career in 1996 when he released with 'Destiny' a first EP. With 'The Heretic' followed an acclaimed debut album and Smolski became really popular as guitarist of Germany's metal icons Rage. Smolski was part of their line-up from 1999... Continue Reading →
Katatonia have their roots in Stockholm. Jonas Renske and Anders Nyström started up a band in the Swedish capital, which today belongs to the true greats of dark and atmospheric metal. While in the beginning it was the doomy death metal music, the sound of the band has changed over the years. Katatonia became more... Continue Reading →
Dokken, this name stands for quality, at least in the 80s. Named after Don Dokken, who started the band in 1978, the band was joined a year later by former Xciter guitarist George Lynch, who became Dokken's songwriting partner, and it was this combination that brought the band great success. The debut album 'Breaking the... Continue Reading →
Steve Vai is definitely one of the all-time greats of rock music. His collaboration with Frank Zappa, countless solo albums, his time with Whitesnake, etc. made the guitarist one of the most important representatives of his craft. These days Vai releases a new album, which is actually not that new. Vai/Gash' contains songs that were... Continue Reading →
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