My World of Music – est. 2013
Karnivool, one of Australia’s most important alternative and progressive rock bands, was ready to go for the ‘Decade of Sound Awake’ tour, a road trip with concerts that focus on the 'Sound Awake’ album from 2009. Since the plans were disrupted by a pandemic, Karnivool decided to go live in another shape and form. The... Continue Reading →
Rock from Canada has a long tradition. Bands like Rush, Danko Jones, Harem Scarem and many others have their home base in the land with the maple leaf. Another band that has been somewhat forgotten in recent years is The Tea Party. The Tea Party is Jeff Martin, Stuart Chatwood and Jeff Burrows. All three... Continue Reading →
Arjen Lucassen has with ‘Revel in Time’ a new Star One album in the pipeline. Release date is scheduled for February 18th, 2022 and the album will come via InsideOutMusic. To bridge the wait, a new song, taken from the album, has been revealed. ‘Fate of Man’ is the opener of the album and got... Continue Reading →
The first time I heard songs from Molybaron was when the band opened for A Pale Horse Named Death. Even though their music didn’t fit exactly to the dark metal of APHND, the band still could win over some fans with their passionate show at the Baroeg in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. That was almost to... Continue Reading →
Dream Theater never released a disappointing album. Still there are some longplayers that created more excitement compared to some others. The first three Dream Theater records are milestones and the latest longplayer ‘Distance Over Time’ belongs for me to the real highlights of an anyhow impressive discography too. The New York-based quintet belongs to the... Continue Reading →
Prog rock veteran Steve Hackett is quite busy these days. Not that he can perform his great songs and musical repertoire on stage. It’s the new releases allowing the iconic guitarist to stay in touch with a very strong fanbase. Driven by the emotional roller-coaster caused by a pandemic, Hackett release a calm and silent... Continue Reading →
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Leprous, the Norwegian prog metal passionists from Notodden, started in 2001 and it took a while before the big day of releasing the debut came. After having published two demos, it happened in 2009 that Leprous premiered with ‘Tall Poppy Syndrome’. The album was a stepstone towards inking a deal with Inside Out Music, the... Continue Reading →
There are artists and bands that seem to benefit from an endless creative flow. One of them is Neal Morse, together with his band members of NMB, formally known as The Neal Morse Band. Now, with the abbreviation being the band name, the quintet will release a next album that continues the streak of extremely... Continue Reading →
Norwegian Rock outfit Leprous are today introducing a new single entitled “The Silent Revelation” off their upcoming studio album “Aphelion”, out August 27th, 2021 worldwide via InsideOutMusic.Check out “The Silent Revelation” in a video clip directed by Tobias Hole Aasgaarden / South Coast Creative here: https://youtu.be/S7bOg3oercgFollowing up on 2019’s highly acclaimed “Pitfalls” album, LEPROUS recorded “Aphelion” throughout the last year at three different... Continue Reading →
Prog metal veterans Dream Theater just announced their next Studio Album, entitled ‚A View From the top of the World’. Release date is October 22nd, 2021 and the album comes via InsideOut Music. “We just love to play our instruments,” observes Petrucci. “That never goes away. I love to be creative, write, and exercise that... Continue Reading →
Devin Townsend’s creativity seems to be an unstoppable force with even a pandemic not being able to stop the Canadian guitar wizard from finding an outlet for music. Probably unhappy, but not moaning about the pandemic situation that keeps the world in suspense, Townsend started already in 2020, a series of quarantine shows. Some of... Continue Reading →
'Innocence & Danger' is the title of the upcoming The Neal Morse Band album that will be available on August 27th via Inside Out Music. With 'Do It All Again' a first single has been unleashed, supported by a video, created by Christian Rios. Mike Portnoy says this about the track, “This was the first... Continue Reading →
Classic rock veterans Kansas released their sixteenth full-length album ‚The Absence of Presence’ in 2020, being a next great addition to a long list of records, released over the last decades. The band, that started in 1974, has the ability to write and record timeless songs that survived all trends and hypes with hymns like... Continue Reading →
Progressive rock outfit Frost* finished work on their newest release 'Day and Age', an album that in the meantime arrived at the record stores. 'Day and Age' is the forth longplayer, Jem Godfrey and bandmates release over the span of 15 years. The outfit is the brainchild of the keyboarder and singer, that started the... Continue Reading →
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