My World of Music – est. 2013
It feels like Venom Prison being around since a long time and sure, seven years isn’t just yesterday. Still, considering that the band founded in 2014 shows that they are a rather new outfit. With two albums under their belt, of which ‘Samsara’ from 2019 is the latest one, the quintet from South Wales worked... Continue Reading →
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 →
There is not only one metal band that thought Deathcult is a pretty cool sounding moniker. In this case we are dealing with a quartet from peaceful Switzerland. Deathcult are from Zurich and formed in 2010. After two years the guys had finished a demo which led to the 'Pleading for Death … Choking on... Continue Reading →
What arrives from Greece on January 28th is dark and heavy. Vicious Knights from Thessaloniki have finished their debut album 'Alternation Through Possession' and will share it with the metal community. What you can expect is music that is raw and wild. Vicious Knights started in 2016 and thus are a relatively young band. After... Continue Reading →
Sarcasm is back with a new album. 'Stellar Stream Obscured' is the title of the disc that will usher in the new metal year in January, or even better, hammer it in. The new album is the fourth full-length album so far, something you wouldn't expect considering that the band has its origins in the... Continue Reading →
‘Acid River’ is the title of Dark Millennium’s fifth longplayer and ‘seven’ is a figure that describes the album well. There are seven songs on the tracklist and each of them is beyond a seven-minute finishing line. And release date is on January 7th. Besides this little sidenote, ‘Acid River’ is built on a storyline.... Continue Reading →
Legendary Cannibal Corpse frontman George 'Corpsegrinder' Fisher unveiled with 'Acid Vat' a new song featuring Erik Rutan. The lyric video can be watched here: https://youtu.be/xPTtv19ZE14. The video is created by Randall Hammer while the artwork comes from Dan Goldsworthy. The song is taken from the upcoming Corpsegrinder self-titled debut which will be released on February... Continue Reading →
Atrocity belongs to the veterans of German death metal. After renaming from Instigator to Atrocity Alex Krull and bandmates premiered in 1990 with an album called ‘Hallucinations’. The sophomore album, ‘Todessehnsucht’, followed in 1992 and in-between the band recorded a four-song demo that will be re-released by Massacre Records on January 7th, 2022. Each of... Continue Reading →
And the year ends with ‚Invoking the Primal Chaos’. Now, hopefully not more and different than related to the new mini album from Chile’s death metal outfit Atomic Aggressor. The band, hailing from Santiago de Chile, has an inconstant vita that started in 1985, the founding date. Mainly demos and slit releases is what the... Continue Reading →
Iconic Benediction frontman Dave Ingram announces an new metal band, Hellfrost And Fire. Inspired by the legendary Celtic Frost, Ingram and his new band (Rick "Dennis" DeMusis (g/b), Travis Ruvo (d)) recorded ten songs, being the tracklist of 'Fire, Frost and Hell', the debut album. Release date of the debut is scheduled for March 18th,... Continue Reading →
In a world that is full of animations it is bands like Unanimated that reflects the oldschool spirit of heavy metal. The Stockholm-based outfit started in the end of the ‘80s and premiered with ‘In the Forest of the Dreaming Dead’ in 1993. A sophomore album followed before the band went on a long hiatus... Continue Reading →
Genocide Pact began in 2013 and released a well-received debut album titled 'Forged Through Domination'. The album paved the way to a deal with Relapse Records, through which the sophomore album was released. Three years later it is the self-titled third album that once again puts all the brutality of death metal into 33 minutes.... Continue Reading →
If Lock Up is a supergroup, I don’t know. What I do know is that this outfit is a collective of death metal and grindcore greats that firm under the moniker of Lock Up. It was in 1998 when Shane Embury, Nicholas Baker and Jesse Pintado started this sonic wreckingball. Embury and Baker have been... 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 →
‘The Everlasting Plague’, an album title that fits so perfectly when thinking about these crazy pandemic times. That was also the thinking of Pathology when working on their eleventh album. Inspired by a song title from their 2012 album ‘The Time of Great Purification’, the band transferred the idea into the here and now. Pathology’s... Continue Reading →
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