My World of Music – est. 2013
Lord Dying hail from Portland, Oregeon and their debut album ‘Summon the Faithless’ hit the shelves in 2013, following two EPs. ‘Sludge’ is still what you hear and read often in the context of Lord Dying and of course, songs like the throbbing ‘Final Push Into the Sun’ show the doomy rawness of sludge. But... Continue Reading →
Los Angeles-based metal outfit Stygian Crown announced their sophomore album called ‘Funeral for a King’. The five-piece recorded nine songs for the album of which ‘Bushido’ has been revealed already and can be enjoyed here: https://youtu.be/vYyhY2S71HM?si=Otq0lm1qj2yYx8Rl ‘Funeral for a King’ follows the self-titled debut from 2020 and marks a next great step in the bands... Continue Reading →
ORO is hailing from Örebro, Sweden and shouldn’t be mixed-up with a band from Gothenburg, sharing the same moniker. The five-piece from middle Sweden is looking forward to their 10-years anniversary next year and to add a bit more music to their list of achievements Oro launch with ‘Vid vägs ände’ their sophomore release. In... Continue Reading →
Morne from Boston, Massachusetts deliver a very interesting album. It's not exactly easy going music, but rather metallic intensity somewhere on the spectrum of doom metal, post-metal and sludge. Morne started in 2005 and have released four longplayers to date. With 'Engraved With Pain', the fifth album is now in the record stores and the... Continue Reading →
Italian metal outfit Mortuary Drape are a band that’s already quite a while in business. Founded in 1986, the band released a few longplayers although the amount of new material was quite little during the last years. The band released with ‘Wisdom – Vibration - Repent’ an EP in 2022 but it took the guys... Continue Reading →
Green Lung is a band that was founded in 2017 and step by step gained popularity in the rock business. The debut ‘Woodland Rites’ and especially the sophomore release ‘Black Harvest’ helped the band the establish themselves as a serious player in the fields of gloomy rock and metal. After having released the first two... Continue Reading →
The musical spectrum of guitarist Greg Mackintosh is diversified. On the one hand, there is the central mosaic piece called Paradise Lost, with which Mackintosh enjoyed and celebrates his greatest successes. Next to it is Host, a project in which the guitarist, together with Nick Holmes, gives free rein to the influences of the 90s... Continue Reading →
Poland's sludge/doom band Dopelord have a new album in the pipeline. 'Songs for Satan' is the promising title of the album which pays tribute to the lord of the underworld with a total of seven songs. 'Songs for Satan' is the fifth album of the four-piece and follows up the 'Sign of the Devil' released... Continue Reading →
Norwegian heavy metal powerhouse Sahg has a new EP in the starting blocks. ‚Live Demons‘ is the title of a release that features, as not expected differently, four live songs. To celebrate the birthday of their sixth studio album ‚Born Demon‘ Sahg placed four tracks of the latest studio album on this EP. The songs... Continue Reading →
Porta Nigra hail from Koblenz, Germany and are dedicated to black metal. Even though this genre defines the foundation of the band's sound, the guys' new album blends countless other styles into a fascinating mix. 'Weltende' is the dystopian title of the fourth record of the avant-garde black metallers and it is genres like death... Continue Reading →
Japanese metal veterans Church Of Misery have finished work on their newest longplayer ‘Born Under a Mad Sign’. Seven songs is what the four-piece band recorded and a look on the line-up shows some significant changes. The first remarkable thing is, that frontman Kazuhiro Asaeda rejoined the Japanese metal force. The singer was already part... Continue Reading →
Australian powerhouse Witchskull started in 2014 and premiered in 2015 with an album called ‘The Vast Electric Dark’. This debut brought the band to the attention of Rise Above Records, the label of Lee Dorrian. The sophomore album ‘Coven’s Will’ was the first Witchskull album, released through the label and having unwrapped ‘A Driftwood Cross’... Continue Reading →
Elegant Weapons is an interesting new constellation of musicians, with the line-up including Richie Faulkner, a long-time Judas Priest guitarist. In addition, Ronnie Romero lends his voice to the band, while the rhythm section consists of Dave Rimmer (Uriah Heep) and Christopher Williams (Accept). Thus, there are experts at work in the band. The fact... Continue Reading →
Smoulder belongs to the group of exciting hungry epic metal bands. The group started 2013 and has its origins in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The debut was unleashed in 2019 and with ‘Dream Quest Ends, Smoulder launched an EP in early 2020. Also the quintet had to suffer from the pandemic, and everybody remembers Smoulder’s dramatic... Continue Reading →
MDXX is still relatively unknown and also surrounded by a cloak of mystery. What we do know is that MDXX consists of four musicians who call themselves V, T, C and A. The musical head of the band is V. V is the musical head of the band and is responsible for both music and... Continue Reading →
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