My World of Music – est. 2013
New York City -based groove metal masters Prong are back with a new album. After a few brilliant records in the 90s, one recalls 'Beg to Differ', 'Prove You Wrong' and 'Cleansing', a short period of dry spell followed. Records like 'Scorpio Rising' couldn't keep up with the great successes. Fortunately, Tommy Victor and his... Continue Reading →
American black metal outfit Wolves In The Throne Room recently released a new EP called ‘Crypt of Ancestral Knowledge’. The trio, hailing from Olympia, Washington offers a collage of sounds than what the usual longplayers represent. The EP includes four songs and each of those has a bit of a different expression. What connects all... Continue Reading →
Hunger is never a good thing, but now there is an exception. 'Hunger' is the title of Maggot Heart's third album and what is offered here is amazing. Maggot Heart was founded by Linnéa Olsson and is based in Berlin. With 'Mercy Machine' Maggot Heart released a very good sophomore album and three years later... Continue Reading →
The market for symphonic bands is not an easy one. Nightwish and Epica have been mentioned. Should it be more pop-oriented, then there are bands like Within Temptation and Delain. For the latter, Blackbriar opened in Utrecht in early 2020, which certainly helped the band to establish itself. At that time there was no debut... Continue Reading →
Sometimes fun quickly turns into seriousness. Most of the time, this has a negative connotation. However, in the case of Harms Way, it is fair to say that the seriousness has led to even more fun. Initially Harms Way was a side project of Few And The Proud. It was mainly about fun, which was... Continue Reading →
‘Dreams of Yesterday’ is the continuation of a project that had its beginning in 2021. Seb Byford and his father, the legendary Biff Byford worked together under the banner of Heavy Water and unveiled an album called ‘Red Brick City’. Originally being a lockdown project, the guys discovered a lot of fun working without boundaries... Continue Reading →
Primordial is one of the bands that I had of course all the time on my radar and I actually think the music is quite good. However, for reasons I can't explain, I had never looked deeper into the music of the four-piece from Ireland. A few days ago the new album 'How It Ends'... Continue Reading →
The new Graveyard album got a pretty simple title. ‘6’ is a statement as it is, what a surprise, the sixth longplayer from the Gothenburg-based rock band. More than five years after having release ‘Peace’ it is the new longplayer that brings nine new songs to the plate. It took Graveyard a while to finish... Continue Reading →
Black Stone Cherry is ‘Screamin’ at the Sky’, starting on September 29th, 2023. The four-piece of course isn’t literally screaming at the sky. It is their eighth studio album that listens to ‘Screamin’ at the Sky’ , a longplayer that carries 12 new songs. The songs were written while having been on tour and the... Continue Reading →
Subsignal belong to the great progressive rock bands hailing from Germany. Founded in 2007 as a side project following the end of the legendary Sieges Even, Subsignal evolved to one of the main players in this genre. After having launched their debut album ‘Beautiful & Monstrous’, the band added four additional records to their discography... Continue Reading →
Twenty years after started a success story with Volbeat, Michael Poulsen returns to his death metal roots. The singer and guitarist formed a death metal band called Dominus with which he launched four longplayers before moving on to Volbeat. Now he returns to his roots with Asinhell. Originally the moniker should be Full Of Hell,... Continue Reading →
Callejon belong to the most successful German metalcore bands. There albums enter the German charts on a regular base and their latest longplayer ‚Eternia‘ made it into the Top 10. Singer of the band is Bastian Sobtzick whose ceative flow is wider than Callejon only. In his role as creative director Sobtzick signs responsible artworks... Continue Reading →
German death metal outfit Necrotted started in 2008 and releases these days with ‘Imperium’ their fifth full-length album. The five-piece placed nine songs on the tracklist and each of them is a brutal riff assault that fuses blackened death metal with some deathcore moment. The blasting ‘Sow Sorrow For Victory’ shows the various influences very... Continue Reading →
From the moment Brujeria started back in 1989, there was a kind of mytserious hype about band. Much has to do with the fact that the band includes a lot of band members, well-known from other bands which makes Brujeria more to a collective than a band. With ‚Eso Es Brujeria‘ the next strike from... Continue Reading →
‘The Mandrake Project’, that is the title of Bruce Dickinson’s new solo album. It is the first solo album of the legendary Iron Maiden frontman since 2005 when he released ‘Tyranny of Souls’. Produced by Roy Z the album is scheduled for being released early 2024 through BMG Records. Stay tuned for more.
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