My World of Music – est. 2013
US rockers King Buffalo decided to go for a quite ambitious undertaking in 2021. The plan is to release three longplayers in one year and the fact that we are already in May makes it necessary to welcome the first out of three. ‘The Burden of Relentlessness’ is the start to this three-leg journey and... Continue Reading →
Portland, Oregon is the homebase of stoner rock outfit Red Fang. The quartet premiered in 2005 and it took a while to get the debut album out on the market. The self/titled first longplayer arrived at the record storers in 2009 and three more records followed. Five years after ‘Only Ghosts’ entered the Billboard Charts,... Continue Reading →
This review is about an album that focusses on the calmer and gentle facets of music instead of challenging the speakers through hard riffs and massive beats. 'Surrounded' is the title of an album that comes from Justin Sullivan and is his second solo release in 18 years. The iconic singer, being known from the... Continue Reading →
Grave Miasma belongs to the group of bands that put quality over time. Starting in 2006, after having operated under the name of Goat Molestör for four years, the trio unleashed a fist EP called ‘Exalted Emanation’ in 2009. The full-length debut though took a bit longer. ‘Odori Sepulcrorum’ escaped the darkness in 2013 and... 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 →
One of the good things, 2020 provided, was some extra time that allowed us to do things that usually have been pushed forward to nowhere in time or never seemed to be the first choice of activities. What goes for individuals has been also the case for bands. Ventura, California-based Cirith Ungol made good use... Continue Reading →
Esa Holopainen is known as founding member and guitarist of Amorphis, one of the strong representatives of Finnish metal. It was in spring 2020 when Holopainen received a phone call from Nino Laurenne, producer and owner of the Sonic Pump, which is a recording facility. The core question to the guitarist was, if it wouldn't... Continue Reading →
Who thought that the most creepy thing of a Lindemann concert isn't lyrics or the show. Looking at the newest release of the iconic singer, it is the big audience that came together at the beginning of the upcoming pandemic that seems so unreal these days. Lindemann, that was Till Lindemann and Peter Tägtgren until... Continue Reading →
It was in November 2019 when Marillion played a concert at St. David’s Hall in Cardiff, being part of the ‘Marillion With Friends from the Orchestra Live 2019’ tour. What paved the way for such an undertaking had its beginning in a collaboration of the rock veterans with the ‘In Praise of Folly’ string quartet,... Continue Reading →
Starlight Ritual is a Canadian band that has it headquarter in the greater Montreal area in Canada. Founded in 2013, the quintet could unleash two EP and what was missing to date was the full-length debut. Five years after the ‘Age of the Universe’ has been revealed, Starlight Ritual close the gap with ‘Sealed in... Continue Reading →
If you wonder what Saxon's Biff Byford and his son Seb did during the COVID-lockdown, they worked on songs for a project called Heavy Water. 'Red Brick City' is the title of their full-length album that will be in the record stores on July 23rd and comes via Silver Lining. Today, the title title track... Continue Reading →
The quartet started in 2001 when they successfully completed a renaming from Godzilla to Gojira. The debut 'Terra Incognita' was released in the same year and since then the band has become essential.Gojira slowly and steadily built up a fanbase that is constantly growing. This can be recognized among other things by the chart entries,... Continue Reading →
Vocalist Todd Michael Hall is certainly no stranger to rock and metal, as he enriches the Riot V releases with his voice. His time with Jack Starr's Burning Star is also unforgotten and this time Hall has decided to work with another excellent guitarist. Metal Church mainman Kurdt Vanderhoof not only produced Hall's solo album... Continue Reading →
Vreid rose from the ashes of Windir and it was in 2004 when the band premiered with 'Kraft'. Since then, Vreid is a regular guest on the release schedule lists with eight longplayers that have been released so far. Following a kind of three years pattern, the year of 2021 is the one for a... Continue Reading →
Capra is a band, 'In Transmission' is an album and opinions can differ when it comes to the music. The wild blend of metal, punk and hardcore leads to music that is massive and furious. Although the start, '[Exordium]', is rather atmospheric, hell breaks loose with 'Hollow Doll'. 'In Transmission' is not an album that... Continue Reading →
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