My World of Music – est. 2013
Witherfall's roots go back to 2013. That's the year the band was formed and three albums are the proof of their work to date. With "Sounds of the Forgotten", album number four is waiting in the starting blocks and it is the expected next great longplayer from the progressive power metal band. Witherfall pick it... Continue Reading →
Power metal force Mystic Prophecy will embark ona tour in late 2024, including shows in Germany, Switzerland and The Netherlands. The band will also play on a few festivals this summer. 17 MAY 2024 Gelsenkirchen (DE) Rock Hard Festival06 JUN 2024 Sölvesborg (SE) Swedenrock Festival06 JUL 2024 Ballenstedt (DE) Rockharz Open Air15 OCT 2024 Cala... Continue Reading →
There are different kinds of ballads. There are the soft and often cheesy love songs being a tearjerker for people. Besides that, ballads also have a history, and the term goes back to Middle Age with ballads often being a narrative set that is strengthened by music. The latter is the interpretation of ‘ballad’ when... Continue Reading →
Attacker have been following their passion for metal for 40 years. Formed in 1984, the band is one of the veterans of heavy metal, and even though they never made it to the top, they made a name for themselves in the metal underground. With 'Battle at Helm's Deep' and 'The Second Coming', the guys... Continue Reading →
Rage that’s a band that contributed to the growth of German heavy metal a lot. Now, the band celebrates the 40th anniversary and in case you wonder if the calculation is wrong – it isn’t. It was the predecessor Avenger, that was founded in 1983 before Avenger morphed into Rage in 1986. Within four decades,... Continue Reading →
Wade Black, some of you might remember the singer from his days with Crimson Glory. Black was part of theline-up that recorded the ‘Astronomica’ album which was Crimson Glory’s attempt to connect to the great debut and the excellent ‘Transcendence’ album. Even though the album wasn’t a bad one, Crimson Glory didn't unveil the vibe... Continue Reading →
Myrath have been around since 2006 after five years of making music as Xtazy. With a total of five albums, the guys from Tunisia have already achieved a lot and these days there will be a new longplayer with 'Karma'. 'Karma' was originally supposed to be released earlier, but the release has been postponed and... Continue Reading →
Sentry wouldn't exist without Manilla Road, and a quick look at the line-up shows why. Bryan Patrick (vocals), Phil Ross (bass) and Andreas "Neudi" Neuderth (drums) were all part of Manilla Road's final line-up. However, after the unexpected death of Manilla Road mastermind Mark Shelton, the iconic band broke up, which didn't come as a... Continue Reading →
Traveler is a band with a founding date of 2017 and until the pandemic started to put a stop sign on the music industry, the guys were quite productive. The debut album was released in 2019 and the sophomore 'Termination Shock' followed a year later. For obvious reasons, the band took a little longer to... Continue Reading →
Overlorde unleashed a self-titled EP back in 1988 right before the first era of the New Jersey-based band came to an end. The new century brought a return of the four-piece and a full-length album called ‘Return of the Snow Giant’ brought also new songs to the metal community. With ‘Awaken the Fury’, Overlorde launched... Continue Reading →
Ruthless hail from Los Angeles, California where the band started in 1982. It was a time, when a bit north of Los Angeles, in San Francisco’s Bay Area, bands like Metallica started their journey and together with bands like Slayer and Exodus became forerunners of thrash metal at the time. While these bands faced an... Continue Reading →
Immortal Guardian started in 2008 and what began slowly with a couple of demos and EP led finally to a full-length debut album in 2018. Since then, though, the time span between releases shortened dramatically into a 2-3 years pattern of new records by the band. ‘Unite and Conquer’ is the tile of the bands... Continue Reading →
Canadian metal outfit Aggression is around since 1984 when starting as Asylum. A years later, the band transformed into Aggression and released a debut album called ‘The Full Treatment’ in 1987. The career of the band didn’t go straight forward and there are years with a hiatus before consistency took over again in 2014. Driven... Continue Reading →
Metal maniacs Destructor (US) from Ohio don’t belong to the group of rookie bands. The four-piece started in 1984 and released with ‘Maximum Destruction’ an album that created sum buzz in the metallic underground. Unfortunately, fate didn’t mean it that well with the band as their singer Dave Holocaust was murdered in New York on... Continue Reading →
Angra hail from São Paulo, Brazil and have released a highly respected debut album called 'Angels Cry'. That was in 1993 and even if the time was not the best for metal bands, Angra managed to gain a very solid fan base with their progressive metal. With a short hiatus between the years 2007 and... Continue Reading →
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