My World of Music – est. 2013
Southern California metal musketeers Night Demon worked on a special compilation album which will be in the stores end of March this year. ‘Year of the Demon’ is the meaningful title of a longplayer the entails tens songs. Night Demon released a self-titled EP in 2012, a springboard for an impressive and energetic trip through... Continue Reading →
London, UK – based rockers FM finished work on their newest album ‘Thirteen’. As the title indicates, the new offer is full-length record number thirteen, penned and recorded by the British melodic rock outfit. The story of FM contains two chapters. The first era of the band stared in 1984, the year, FM was formed.... Continue Reading →
Helsingborg, Sweden, that is a smaller peaceful town in the southwest of Sweden, about an hour away from Malmö. The music scene of the city is quite lively with the music club Tivoli as the center. Singer Rock Altzi is from Helsingborg and from there started a career that led him amongst others to At... Continue Reading →
The last months and years have been tough for the music industry. Pandemic and lockdowns have brought venues, artists and their professional community to their limits. But also fans had to suffer and could only experience their favorite artists 'live' in livestreams. Slowly the fog of the non-concert time seems to lift and the one... Continue Reading →
Danish rock and metal veteran Ronnie Atkins is a fighter. Since years, the iconic singer and frontman battles cancer and diagnosis aren’t positive once. Since time becomes very precious for the singer and probably also as a kind of distraction, Atkins follows his heart and puts a focus on music. The singer found with Chris... Continue Reading →
Hamburg’s metal band Sign X emerged from Châlice, a group from the 90s. Steve Lagleder, Michael Mehl and Oliver Scheer, they all have a history with Châlice and teamed up with singer Sebastian Zierof (v). The band worked on their next longplayer ‘Like a Fire’. The album is professionally done record with songs, echoing a... Continue Reading →
Talking about hard rock from Sweden and not mentioning the influences of bands like The Hellacopters is almost impossible. That also goes for Åskväder and their interpretation of retro rock with a strong drive. Åskväder is not only a multi-plug connector set from IKEA. It is also a band from Gothenburg that plays electrifying rock... Continue Reading →
Radioactive is the brainchild of Swedish musician and producer Tommy Denander who started the project in 1991. It took a while before Denander could release the debut album. Ten years after having started Radioactive the first album hit the shelves, a record named ‘Ceremony of Innocence’. Three more records followed, of which the 2015 release... Continue Reading →
‘Hel’, that was the title of the latest studio release by Týr and with limited possibilities to play live, the band pit the album into spotlight at a show they played at Nordens Hu. The imprssive concert hall in Tórshavn has been the scenery for a special home game show of the quartet from the... Continue Reading →
Fans of doom metal might have heard of Friends Of Hell already. The idea for this doom metal outfit comes from Tas Danazoglou (Satan's Wrath / Ex-Electric Wizard) and Albert Witchfinder (Opium Warlords / Ex-Reverend Bizarre). Friends Of Hell stand for slow-paced heavy metal that is evil and fascinates by ist hellish grin that shimmers... Continue Reading →
Dark Funeral can be regarded as one of the veterans of the Swedish Black Metal. The band, founded in the early ‘90s, belongs to spearhead of black metal and although the track records doesn’t contain countless releases, each of the so far unleashed six longplayers was a powerful ode to black metal. ‘Where Shadows Forever... Continue Reading →
‘Opeth: Every Album, Every Song’ is the title of a bock that will be released end of April. Author Jorden Blum did a deep-dive into the discography of one of the most influential rock/metal bands these days. With passion and love for details, Blum goes through each album and each song in detail. I think... Continue Reading →
Tobias Forge was gifted to create a formula of success he named Ghost. Ghost isn’t only a band. It is a blend of music, theatric approach and show that works extremely well since 2008. Visual identity and musical direction are greatly harmonized and what fascinates is the ability of Forge to develop the sound of... Continue Reading →
Copenhagen, the Danish capitol, is the homebase of Slægt. ‘Slægt’ means ‘lineage’/’heritage’ is Danish language and the heritage of the band so far are three full-length albums and two EPs. The latest countable work effort in the studio was released under the banner of ‘Black Bombs’, the title of an EP that was released before... Continue Reading →
And here we go again. No, this review isn’t about a Whitesnake album. It is the new album from Erlangen, Germany based J.B.O. that reminds of Groundhog Day. On a regular base the guys from Franconia take a new attempt to brings pleasure to the world of rock and metal. They try to blow away... Continue Reading →
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