My World of Music – est. 2013
(9/10) Darkthrone, that's Fenriz and Nocturno Culto, both a well attuned duo in harsh Black Metal. Seventeen longplayer over the period o more than 30 years speak volumes and in contrary to the title of their newest release these guys are for sure no 'old stars'. As if there would be no tomorrow that duo... Continue Reading →
(7/10) California-based Doom Metal veterans Saint Vitus have a new album in the starting blocks. Simply entitled 'Saint Vitus' the longplayer ends a seven years wait. Founding members Dave Chandler and Scott Ranger, together with their bandmates Henry Vasquez and Pat Bruders, that's the current line-up of the Doom legends. After having suffered from many... Continue Reading →
(7/10) High Reeper is based in Philadelphia and plays doom and stoner rock. The band was formed in 2016 and the newest longplayer ‘Higher Reeper’ is their sophomore album after having premiered in 2016 with ‘High Reeper’. Although the title of the sophomore release is more kind of playing with words the new longplayer is... Continue Reading →
Doom pioneers Saint Vitus revealed some first details of the upcoming album. The album contains a tracklist that looks like this: 1. Remains (6:23)2. A Prelude to... (3:20)3. Bloodshed (3:04)4. 12 Years In The Tomb (5:24)5. Wormhole (5:22)6. Hour Glass (5:23)7. City Park (4:01)8. Last Breath (6:38)9. Useless (1:32) The album is simply entitled 'Saint Vitus' and... Continue Reading →
(9/10) Exactly four years ago, I had the chance to visit Jyvaskyla in Finland, which is a smaller city North of Helsinki. Every time a new Swallow The Sun album is on its way, I'm reminded of walking through the wintery streets of Jyvaskyla, which, on a grey day, feels like someone seriously swallowed the... Continue Reading →
Swedish doom metaller Candlemass unveiled a new song entitled 'The Omega Circle'. The track is part of the upcoming 'The Door to Doom', an album that features the return of Candlemass' first singer Johan Langquist. Tracklist: Splendor Demon MajestyUnder The OceanAstorolus - The Great OctopusBridge Of The BlindDeath´s WheelBlack TrinityHouse Of DoomThe Omega Circle
Was it so far just one day, metal fans in The Netherlands can enjoy a 2-days Dynamo Metalfest this year. The DMF team added with Friday, July 19 another day of metal and what's exciting news too is the line-up. Arch Enemy, Carcass and Soulfly are just some of the confirmed bands to date and... Continue Reading →
(7/10) The first funny thing that happened after I uploaded this album to my player was that all six tracks had the same title, 'Above'. For one second I though that this might have been a weird but planned way to distract, but of course it's not. Each of the six songs on Pillars new... Continue Reading →
(9/10) Doom masters The Skull premiered not that long ago. OK, it was in 2014 when “For Those Which are Asleep’ hit the record stores, an album that was equally acclaimed by fans and media. One of the reasons for success was and is an experienced gang of musicians that came together to do what... Continue Reading →
German metal veterans Undertow spend quite some time in the studio for recording their next power strike, entitled 'Reap the Storm'. The album will be released on September 21st, via El Puerto Records. Markus 'Brandy' Brand and Joachim 'Joschi' Baschin spend some time with Markus Heavy Music Blog and did a track-by-track session, giving more... Continue Reading →
(7/10) Entierro is an interesting band, hailing from Connecticut. The outfit, that originally started as Treebeard in 2010, is consisting of Christopher Taylor Beaudette (v/b), Christopher Begnal (g), Dave Parmelee (d) and Victor Arduini (g), the latter known from his time with metal pioneers Fates Warning. This quartet recorded an album that features eight songs,... Continue Reading →
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