My World of Music – est. 2013
(8/10) Venom is without any doubt a pioneer in metal. Not only that albums like ‘Welcome to Hell’ and ‘At War With Satan’ added a new level of extremeness to metal, but the band also set with ‘Black Metal’ a base for a totally new genre. All this happened in the first half of the... Continue Reading →
(8/10) Unearth belongs to the spearhead of US metalcore, being one of the most impactful outfits in this genre. The roots of Unearth go back to 1998 when the band started with an EP entitled ‘Above the Fall of Men’, the springboard for a successful career in metalcore. Since then things grew dramatically and to... Continue Reading →
(8/10) If members of bands like Extol, The Dillinger Escape Plan and Sea + Air combine forces the result must be a heavy and complex beast. And as expected this combination is like experimental metal dynamite. The four musicians that started a collaboration with the moniker Azusa are Eleni Zafiriadou (v), Liam Wilson (b), Christer... Continue Reading →
(7/10) A geographical area you usually don't connect to metal is South Tyrol in the Italian Alps. Wine, apples, food and a lot of sun is what stands for this region, a great place for vacation. However, there's also metal hailing from Bruneck, shading the hot South Tyrolean sun. Organic calls the city their home... Continue Reading →
Triptykon will return to Roadburn Festival in 2019 to perform the complete Celtic Frost/ Triptykon three part Requiem, complete with orchestral accompaniment. Having previously performed at the festival in 2010 and 2014 with Triptykon, and taken on curatorship duties for the former (selecting bands such as Sarke and Thorr's Hammer to perform); it's our pleasure to welcome... Continue Reading →
(8/10) 'The Arrow of Satan is Drawn' is album number two of the Nick Holmes era and it is the premiere of Craft guitarist Joakim Karlsson on the six-string guitar. Four years after 'Grand Morbid Funeral' alighted from the abyss it is the new album that delivers new morbid songs. Two oldschool smashers kick-off the album.... Continue Reading →
(8/10) Demonic black metal band Behemoth is back with a monstrous new album entitled ‘I Loved You at Your Darkest’. The title might sound unusual for a black metal band but digging into detail unveils the fact that the title is a quote, taken from the bible. The sentence acted as a base for the... 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 →
Norwegian black metal warrior Abbath embarked on a six stop road trip through Europe. The mini tour includes five different countries and The Netherlands was one of them. Actually the show at Gebr. de Nobel in Leiden was the start of this tour and it was Danish newcomers Baest that got the opening spot. With... Continue Reading →
(8/10) Death metal veterans Deicide invested quite some time when it comes to work for their 12th longplayer. 'Overtures of Blasphemy', so the title of the metal blast, was done over several months in a two years period. All the work and effort led to a twelve track album with songs not reaching the four... Continue Reading →
(9/10) A duo in metal is something that for sure doesn’t belong to the usual line-ups. Mantar, hailing from Bremen, Germany, is such an exception from standard. Hanno Klaenhardt (v/g) and Erinc Sakarya (d/v) founded the band five years ago and what the duo achieve in such a short period of time is rather impressive.... Continue Reading →
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