My World of Music – est. 2013
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 →
Iron Savior are an integral part of the German and European metal scene. Bandleader Piet Sielck and his three bandmates, Joachim 'Piesel' Küstner (guitar), Jan S. Eckert (bass) and Patrick Klose (drums), have managed to secure a rock solid status and what started in 1997 with the self-titled debut album has become a Hanseatic metal... Continue Reading →
Just announced are the first bands for Wacken 2024: In Extremo Beast in Black Ignea Blues Pills Primordial Wolf The Warning Red Fang Soil Xandria Amon Amarth Asagraum Vreid Watain Vio-lence Flotsam and Jetsam Exumer Pain Emil Bulls The Black Dahlia Murder Sick Of It All Mayhem Blind Guardian Motionless In White Sonata Arctica Bury... Continue Reading →
Withering Scorn is new outfit, featuring Henning Basse on vocals, Glen Dover (g), Joe Dibiase (b) and Shawn Dover on drums. The band was founded in 2020 and is the brainchild of Dover brothers. The four-piece band focusses on heavy metal without frills and gimmicks. The power of the riff is what drives the sound... Continue Reading →
'Beyond the Black Sun' is the next single release of Chris Bolendahl's Steelhammer; a song taken from the upcoming album 'Reborn in Flames'. Album release will be on July 28th, 2023 and you can listen to the new single here: https://youtu.be/y8YGNcBRL9Q And this is how the entire tracklist looks like: Reborn In Flames Fire Angel... Continue Reading →
Jag Panzer belongs to the spearhead of heavy metal and their debut ‘Ample Destruction’ is a timeless milestone album to date. Unfortunately, the band disbanded in 1988 but returned five years later. Since then, Jag Panzer is a constant deliverer of great metal, even if the time between releases is rather long. This time it... Continue Reading →
Fifth Angel belongs to the bands, hailing from the greater Seattle area. Bands like Queensryche, Sanctuary and Heir Apparent have/had their homebase there. Fifth Angel comes from the same area although Bellevue, Washington is on the other side of the Lake Washington. However, Fifth Angel belong to the bands I’m following since the very early... Continue Reading →
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