My World of Music – est. 2013
It was in April this years when a band released an EP that cane right in time for the Roadburn festival. Gott is a quintet from The Netherlands, featuring well know musicians. Farida Lemouchi ( Molassess, The Devil’s Blood) , Twan van Geel (Soulburn, Legion of the Damned) , Thijs van Laarhoven (Severe Torture, William... Continue Reading →
Those who feel a certain longing for darkness even during the long sunny days in August can be helped. For one thing, the days in the northern hemisphere are getting shorter and shorter. At the same time there is a musical soundtrack that evokes gloom. Masters in the creation of these gloomy emotional spheres are... Continue Reading →
It was not so long ago that Hanging Garden presented with 'Skeleton Lake' a new longplayer. To be precise, it was May 2021, a month when life and colors returned, while the Finns created a well-done counterpoint with their dark melodies. A few months later, the dreariness of gray winter days prevails and the sun... Continue Reading →
Stuttgart in Germany, a city known for Mercedes, Porsche and Spätzle has also a rather vibrant music scene. One contributor is Schwarzer Engel, a gothic and dark metal project, driven by Dave Jason. Schwarzer Engel (German for Black Angel) has six longplayers under the belt und the next one is ready to be shipped to... Continue Reading →
If the name of a band is Funeral I don’t think that anybody expects happy sounds. In contrary. Funeral, hailing from Drammen, Norway, is into slower pace metal with a dark vibe that resonates in each of the songs of their newest delivery. Funeral started in early ‘90s and premiered with ‘Tragedies’ in 1995. In... 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 →
One of the most influential bands that called Brooklyn, NYC their homebase is Pete Steele’s legendary Type O Negative. Part of this outfit was Sal Abruscato who provided, as drummer of the band, the heartbeat for milestone releases like ‘Bloody Kisses’. After having been also part of Life Of Agony, the drummer started his own... Continue Reading →
GosT premiered in 2013 with ‘Skull’ and added a few more longplayers to the list of deliveries. The newest record from GosT is entitled ‘Rites of Love and Reverence’. Ten new songs continue a musical trip that covers a lot of dark wave and electronica, mixed with some metal-ish elements. The result is an album... Continue Reading →
Lacking the possibility of live shows led to a lot of streaming events during the last months. Most of those have been done with the approach of transferring the live spirit into a virtual room while others preferred a bit of a different strategy - like Paradise Lost. The UK-based metal veterans decided to perform... Continue Reading →
Finnish melodic death metal masters INSOMNIUM proudly present their new single “The Conjurer”. Follow THIS LINK to watch the video, which was once again created by renowned director Vesa Ranta.The band comments:"We haven't been idle during the pandemic. 'The Conjurer' is a tragic tale of jealous and searing love that opens this new chapter for Insomnium. Monumental composition... Continue Reading →
Wolvennest hail from Belgium and started their journey in 2015. The first milestone for the band was the release of the debut 'Void’. This was in 2018 and it’s the new longplayer ‘Temple’ that marks a next and important step for the band. Wolvennest’s new album is everything but light-hearted. Songs like the slowly growing... Continue Reading →
Paradise Lost performed a show, being part of the 2016 edition of the legendary Roadburn festival in Tilburg, The Netherlands. The band released the recording of this show today via their Bandcamp site. The entire show is a 45:11 minutes audio file, not cut into different songs. As with a concert, you listen to it... Continue Reading →
After the first single release, which was the title track, curiosity for Moonspell's new album was aroused. But step by step. The first time I ever listened to Moonspell was when the Portuguese opened for Tiamat in 1995. Impressed by the intensity of their music, the band's sound has stuck with me to this day,... Continue Reading →
Compared to the colorful cosmic trip of 'A Crimson Cosmos', the newest Lake Of Tears album appears dark and gloomy. It seems like a gigantic black hole absorbed all the colors and what remains is a cold and dark universe. It has been rather quiet about Lake Of Tears for the last ten years. 'Illwill'... Continue Reading →
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