My World of Music – est. 2013
(6/10) Swedish Devil's Gun fires with 'Sing for the Chaos' a salvo of solid metal on you. The Småland metal unit, hailing from Växjö, premiered in 2016 with 'Dirty'n'Damned' and after a longer search it was traditional Heavy Metal that gave most energy. Therefor it's not a big surprise that also the the sophomore album... Continue Reading →
Today, German heavy metal powerhouse, ACCEPT, announce the addition of Martin Motnik on bass and Rebekah Rahman on violin as the band prepares to launch the Symhonic Terror Tour on April 20th in Wuppertal, Germany. Born in Ludwigshafen, Germany, Motnik has been playing music since he was seven years old and has been a member... Continue Reading →
(8/10) 'Black Bombs' is an in between release from Danish metal outfit Slægt. After having released the critically acclaimed 'The Wheel' album it's this two-tracks single release that offers more songs taken from the recording session. The title track is a blackened metal anthem that sounds extremely well. Heavy rolling riffs, hoarse vocals and a... Continue Reading →
(8/10) What comes to your mind if you read about Astral Doors? I guess it's Dio, Black Sabbath and more traditional heavy metal. Frontman Nils Patrik Johansson was often compared with the legendary Ronnie James Dio and the voice do have similarities. However, Astral Doors is more than a clone of the iconic frontman and... Continue Reading →
(7/10) What's much more reliable than German speed trains is German speed metal and Vulture is one outfit that represents German steel with speed. The guys recently inked a deal with Metal Blade and a first countable result of this collaboration is a 7" single entitled 'Beyond the Blade'. Vulture, that's oldschool speed metal and... Continue Reading →
(8/10) Since a few years German thrash veterans Exumer are back with excellent thrash metal. After returning in 2012 band released with ‘The Raging Tides’ an excellent album, followed by very energetic live shows. Three years later Mem von Stein and bandmates are back with a new offer. It’s entitled ‘Hostile Defiance’ and comes with... Continue Reading →
With the announcement of two more bands the 2019 edition of Rock Hard Festival has a full line-up. Next to The Spirit it's US metal pioneers Lizzy Borden being part of the festival. Here are all the bands and the days they perform: Friday, 7.6.WATAINLIZZY BORDENTYGERS OF PAN TANGTHE IDIOTSCHAPEL OF DISEASEVULTURESaturday, 8.6.GAMMA RAY CANNIBAL... Continue Reading →
(*/10) This release brings back some nice memories. It was in 1989 when metal powerhouse Iced Earth released a first demo entitles 'Enter the Realm'. It was the only demo of Iced Earth and the moment I started to listen to the tape I was excited about what got out of the speakers. Basically it's... Continue Reading →
(8/10) Hamburg - Rock City? This can be clearly answered with 'Yes'. Not only that band like Helloween and Gamma Ray and many more have their homebase in the Hansestadt, also German metal veterans Paragon call Hamburg their home. The quintet never made it to the top, but the fact that they add with 'Controlled... Continue Reading →
(8/10) April 2019 starts very well for fans of Swiss-based Folk Metal band Eluveitie. The eight-piece band from the Alpes returns with a new studio album entitled 'Ategnatos', their first one since 2014 when 'Origins' saw the light of day. Eluveitie belongs to the group of forerunners of folk metal and started their career in... Continue Reading →
(9/10) There are many reason why Toronto is a great city. There are very friendly and open-minded people, there’s a good vibe in the city, they have with the Toronto Blue Jays a cool, and hopefully soon also successful baseball team, and so on. Furthermore it’s the home base of metal bands like the legendary... Continue Reading →
A few weeks ago Cellar Darling released their sophomore longplayer ‘The Spell’ and embarked on a tour to promote the new longplayer. One of the stops of this road trio is De Helling in Utrecht. It was the last one of this tour, that mainly focused on the UK ‘The Spell’ is an impressive album,... Continue Reading →
(7/10) Metall is a band not that many of you have on the radar although the quintet has a starting date that was in 1982. The first three years were mainly used to stabilize their line-up before the guys started to record first songs. Metall, and the two ‘l’s aren’t a typo, didn’t have the... Continue Reading →
(7/10) Fatal Curse is a new player in the fields of heavy metal and consists of singer Mike Bowen, drummer Chris Bowne and guitarist Dave Gruver. This trio debuts with ‘Breaking the Trance’ in April this year, an album that features seven song. With running time of less than 30 minutes the release is more... Continue Reading →
(7/10) A few days ago I posted a review of Ritual’s “Trails of Torment’ album, which is re-released by Pure Steel Records. Now it’s another band from the ‘90s that benefits from a re-issue of one of their albums. Attika is the name of the band, a quartet that released their ‘When Heroes Fall’ album... Continue Reading →
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