My World of Music – est. 2013
Hespera, that's Björn 'Speed' Strid (v), Cole Martinez (g), Matt Silac (g), Andrew Lenthe (b) and Dirk Verbeuren (d). This powerful quintet will release a six track EP on August 31st. Not much more than a teaser has been unveiled so far, but what we can expect is an aggressive EP entitled 'In Absence'. Stay... Continue Reading →
(8/10) British metalcore-ians of Bury Tomorrow launched their latest studio output 'Earthbound' in 2016. Two years later album number five will step out of the darkness into the light. The 'Black Flame' starts burning mid July, featuring ten new songs of the metalcore quintet and will be the debut for Bury Tomorrow's new label Music... Continue Reading →
(9/10) The Ancient Roman Theatre in Plovdiv seems to become more and more a venue for recordings of live shows. Steve Rothery and his band played there as well as Paradise Lost that recorded a show in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The Ancient Roman Theatre provides a great stage set which makes things a bit different compared... Continue Reading →
(6/10) The label sheet that came with Halcyon Ways’s new album ‘Bloody but Unbowed’ mentions Megadeth, Dream Theater, Testament and Chimaira as a source of inspiration for the five guys from Atlanta, Georgia. After having listened to the album several times I think that the mentioned comparison nails it pretty much and what could be... Continue Reading →
(7/10) Bullet For My Valentine's roots go back to 1998 when the band started as Jeff Killed John. After some name-changes the guys transformed to Bullet For My Valentine and started an impressive career in metal. The band debut with ‘The Poison’ in 2005, becoming a rising star in modern metal. The first album could... Continue Reading →
(5/10) Like everything in life also being a reviewer means sometimes chicken, sometimes feathers. In the case of Follow The Cipher it's more feathers than chicken. The only hard thing was to get oneself through this album a couple of times. The 'forward' button was damn close and the temptation of skipping some songs was... Continue Reading →
(8/10) Atlanta, Georgia based Sevendust worked hard on the successor of the band's 2015 release "Kill the Flaw". In the meantime things progressed and the next record is ready to be shipped to the record stores. "All I See is War" is Sevendust's 11th longplayer and the first one for their new label Rise Records.... Continue Reading →
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