My World of Music – est. 2013
Mantar belongs to the group of bands that fascinate since many years. It all started in 2012 in Northern Germany when Erinc and Hanno decided to make music together as Mantar. The duo released their debut album 'Death by Burning' via Svart Records in 2014 and initially leaned towards sludge. However, Mantar cannot be easily... Continue Reading →
For quite some time Entrails have been one of the established death metal bands from the land of elks. Having started Entrails in 1990, the Swedes worked for eight years without any great success, i.e. album release. Slowly the band fell into oblivion, but this changed in 2008. Entrails were suddenly back, and more productive... Continue Reading →
Nightbearer has been around since 2017 and the guys are very dedicated to death metal. The band from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany has been quite productive over the past few years, even with the pandemic. 'Stories from Beyond' was a first sign of life, an EP that hit record stores in 2018. Testimony Records quickly spotted... Continue Reading →
Polish death metal institution Decapitated unleash their next death metal strike as we speak. ‘Cancer Culture’, a nice word play, follows the 2017 release ‘Anticult’ and brings technically well-forged metal to the plate. ‘Cancer Culture’ is the eighth album from Decapitated after having premiered in 2000 with ‘Winds of Creation’. Their newest effort features ten... Continue Reading →
Septicflesh has a long track record and many records under their belt. The Greek metal outfit premiered in 1994 and established a symphonic version of death metal, allowing the quintet to enlarge their fanbase. With ‘Modern Primitive’ a new workpiece will see the light of day these days and five years after having let ‘Codex... Continue Reading →
Static Abyss is the brainchild of two death metal pioneers. Chris Reifert and Greg Wilkinson, both members of death metal legend Autopsy, worked on a project called Static Abyss. ‘Labyrinth of Veins’ is the title of the debut album; the duo releases these days. As not expected different, the ten songs on the album reflect... Continue Reading →
Heavy metal stands, amongst other things, for a rebellious spirit and provocation. A band that lives up to these attributes in excellent fashion is Watain. The Swedish black metal powerhouse has started their diabolic journey in 1997 in the greater Stockholm area and has a fanbase all around the globe. As often, the third album... Continue Reading →
German metal duo and recent Metal Blade Records signees, Mantar, will unleash their scathing new full-length, 'Pain Is Forever And This Is The End', on July 15th today unveiling the record's cover art, track listing, and first single! Founded in 2012 by guitarist/vocalist Hanno Klänhardt and drummer/vocalist Erinc Sakarya, Mantar stands among the leading forces... Continue Reading →
Umeå-based metal architects Meshuggah never make it easy for listener to dive into their music and records. Heavy, filigree, fragile and brutal, that is what characterized the sound of the Swedish metal veterans and their newest effort ‘Immutable’ doesn’t change this basic direction. Meshuggah are trailblazers when it comes to complex extreme metal and the... Continue Reading →
Dark Funeral can be regarded as one of the veterans of the Swedish Black Metal. The band, founded in the early ‘90s, belongs to spearhead of black metal and although the track records doesn’t contain countless releases, each of the so far unleashed six longplayers was a powerful ode to black metal. ‘Where Shadows Forever... Continue Reading →
Italy might be the country that one would call the epicenter of death metal. Still there are some bands, being committed to the extreme metal genre. Exceptions prove the rule. One of these bands is Dead Chasm. Founded in 2020 by Lorenza (guitar/vocals), Gigi (bass) and Dave (drums), Dead Chasm worked on a first release,... Continue Reading →
‘Damnum’ is the sixth album of Denver, Colorado based tech death metal outfit Allegaeon. The band, founded in 2008, delivers a musical curveball, combining the relentless heaviness of death metal with layers, known from prog metal bands. A song that shows all aspects of Allegaeon’s sound is ‘Into Ember’. Deep Florida-laden growls, excellent clean vocals... Continue Reading →
Today, Watain launched the second single from their upcoming album ‘The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain’. The song is entitled ‘Serimosa’ and unveils a gloomy and dark mood. E. Danielsson (vocals) comments: "'Serimosa' tells of the electric notion of the coming of a great power. The appearance of cracks in the dam that holds the... Continue Reading →
New York-based Immolation isn’t a band that floods the market with new releases. Their release pattern entails a new longplayer every 3-5 years and considering the fact of ‘Atonement’ having been unveiled in 2017 the time was right in early 2022 to launch a next smashing metal album. Immolation is still driven by the two... Continue Reading →
Italian metal outfit Mortuary Drape might have been ahead of the curve when they started their journey into extreme metal in the mid ‘80s. At least they belong to the pioneers when it comes to European death- and black metal. Driven by main man Wildness Perversion the band premiered in 1994 with ‘All the Witches... Continue Reading →
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