My World of Music – est. 2013
The new Amorphis album 'Halo' will hit the shelves in less than a month and to create extra excitement, the band unleashed with 'On the Dark Waters' a next song. Directed by Pekka Hara, the video was recorded in the winterly Finnish nature, a scenery that fits perfectly to the song itself. 'On the Dark... Continue Reading →
It was not so long ago that Hanging Garden presented with 'Skeleton Lake' a new longplayer. To be precise, it was May 2021, a month when life and colors returned, while the Finns created a well-done counterpoint with their dark melodies. A few months later, the dreariness of gray winter days prevails and the sun... Continue Reading →
Founded in 1992, doom metal band Memory Garden didn’t lose any time and released first a demo and then an EP. The full-length premier followed a couple of years later. It was ‘Tides’ that hit the shelves in 1996 and four additional longplayers followed over time.‘Doomain’ was the latest record so far and eight years... Continue Reading →
If the name of a band is Funeral I don’t think that anybody expects happy sounds. In contrary. Funeral, hailing from Drammen, Norway, is into slower pace metal with a dark vibe that resonates in each of the songs of their newest delivery. Funeral started in early ‘90s and premiered with ‘Tragedies’ in 1995. In... Continue Reading →
W.E.B., that is band name that leads to many hits when putting into a search-engine. With a dot between the letters things get a bit more precise and last but not least it still possible to find some information about the Greek metal outfit on the World-Wide-Web. The band from Athens founded in 2002 and... Continue Reading →
Paradise Lost is a well-sounding name when it comes to dark gothic metal. The band went through different phases. The quintet has excellent longplayers in their discography. The latest records as well as the ‘Icon’ and ‘Draconian Times’ are timeless releases that helped to define a whole genre. There are two longplayers that paved the... Continue Reading →
I guess that Jyvaskyla is one of the most important cities in Finland when it comes to rock and metal. More than just a handful of bands call the city their home and one of the is Swallow The Sun. The Finnish sextet premiered in the early days of the new century with an album... Continue Reading →
Apostle Of Solitude grew to an important player in the fields of epic doom over the last 17 years. Five longplayers have been published so far and the sixth one is ready to be unleashed in November. November in the Northern hemisphere means autumn, darkness, and shades of grey. ‘Until the Darkness Goes’ is the... Continue Reading →
‘The Humming Mountain’ is the new mini album delivered by Gaahls Wyrd. The Norwegian Grammy (Spellemannprisen)-winning band recorded five songs that lead to a 30-minute running time. The reason for releasing a mini album is because Gaahl wanted to provide more music to fans than what a usual EP delivers. Secondly, the concept of ‘The... Continue Reading →
The longer it is silent the louder the thunder resounds, in this case the thunder of doom. For a long time it was quiet around Count Raven and their mastermind Dan Fondelius and it was hard to keep the confidence in a new album. Count Raven is a band whose work can be divided into... Continue Reading →
Time is flying, which maybe has to do with my age too. It certainly doesn’t feel like three decades when Katatonia started their exciting trip into the worlds of progressive and dark metal. The journey wasn’t a very straight one in the beginning after Jonas Renske and Anders Nyström started the band in the 90s.... Continue Reading →
Moonspell will re-release a compilation via MDD Records, an album that features many songs the helped to define a new sound. ‘The Great Silver Eye’ has been originally revealed in 2007 with a 16 songs featuring tracklist. Now it is MDD records that provides a re-issue of this compilation that represents the earlier era of... Continue Reading →
One of the most influential bands that called Brooklyn, NYC their homebase is Pete Steele’s legendary Type O Negative. Part of this outfit was Sal Abruscato who provided, as drummer of the band, the heartbeat for milestone releases like ‘Bloody Kisses’. After having been also part of Life Of Agony, the drummer started his own... Continue Reading →
Summer in Scandinavia means either a very short night or just a dawn that bridges from one day to another. And it’s a silver shimmering moon, some stars and a long shades having the potential to let grow melancholia. Such a scene is captured on the artwork of Insomnium’s newest delivery. ‘Argent Moon’ is the... Continue Reading →
Jyväskylä, Finland isn’t a city that you reach by coincident. 270 kilometers North of Helsinki it is nature that surrounds the town, endless forests that unveil their beauty in every season of the year. Besides that, Jyväskylä is also know for a vital rock and metal scene with bands like Swallow The Sun belonging the... Continue Reading →
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