My World of Music – est. 2013
Die Krupps and heavy metal, that means industrial sounds meet heavy riffs. This special blend started in 1992 when Die Krupps unleashed 'A Tribute to Metallica'. Covering metal classic from the Bay Area legends as being an industrial band was groundbreaking. Attention was guaranteed and the EP was a starting point for moving this crossover... Continue Reading →
Former Delain singer and songwriter CHARLOTTE WESSELS will release her first solo endeavor, Tales From Six Feet Under, on September 17, 2021 via Napalm Records. Unable to perform live due to the pandemic, Wessels spent most of last year buried in her Six Feet Under home studio, writing, performing and producing an eclectic wealth of songs. Tales From Six Feet Under offers her... Continue Reading →
US rockers King Buffalo decided to go for a quite ambitious undertaking in 2021. The plan is to release three longplayers in one year and the fact that we are already in May makes it necessary to welcome the first out of three. ‘The Burden of Relentlessness’ is the start to this three-leg journey and... Continue Reading →
Portland, Oregon is the homebase of stoner rock outfit Red Fang. The quartet premiered in 2005 and it took a while to get the debut album out on the market. The self/titled first longplayer arrived at the record storers in 2009 and three more records followed. Five years after ‘Only Ghosts’ entered the Billboard Charts,... Continue Reading →
This review is about an album that focusses on the calmer and gentle facets of music instead of challenging the speakers through hard riffs and massive beats. 'Surrounded' is the title of an album that comes from Justin Sullivan and is his second solo release in 18 years. The iconic singer, being known from the... Continue Reading →
Classic rock veterans Kansas released their sixteenth full-length album ‚The Absence of Presence’ in 2020, being a next great addition to a long list of records, released over the last decades. The band, that started in 1974, has the ability to write and record timeless songs that survived all trends and hypes with hymns like... Continue Reading →
Esa Holopainen is known as founding member and guitarist of Amorphis, one of the strong representatives of Finnish metal. It was in spring 2020 when Holopainen received a phone call from Nino Laurenne, producer and owner of the Sonic Pump, which is a recording facility. The core question to the guitarist was, if it wouldn't... Continue Reading →
It was in November 2019 when Marillion played a concert at St. David’s Hall in Cardiff, being part of the ‘Marillion With Friends from the Orchestra Live 2019’ tour. What paved the way for such an undertaking had its beginning in a collaboration of the rock veterans with the ‘In Praise of Folly’ string quartet,... Continue Reading →
Jess And The Ancient Ones are an exciting band. The Finns, hailing from Kuopio, started in 2010 and released three longplayers to date. Jess, Thomas Corpse, Fast Jake, Yussuf and Abraham, that’s the line-up that worked on the next release, an album called Vertigo’. The new longplayer is the carrier of eight new songs of... Continue Reading →
Blackberry Smoke will release their new album 'You Hear Georgia' on May 28th, 2021 and a new song has been launched, a tune called 'All Rise Again' featuring Warren Haynes. The video can be enjoyed here: https://youtu.be/gsMYav--I0M Tracklist: 1. Live It Down2. You Hear Georgia3. Hey Delilah4. Ain’t The Same5. Lonesome For A Livin’ (feat.... Continue Reading →
Glam rock fans should check out the newest single from Velvet Insane, Jesper Lindgren's band. 'Backstreet Liberace' is the first single, taken from the upcoming album 'Rock 'N' Roll Glitter Suit'. And here is the song: https://youtu.be/rvgcomKLMEI
The fact that Zombi's music reminds of a movie soundtrack doesn't appear out of nowhere. Zombi is very inspired by Italian progressive rock band Goblin that delivered numerous soundtracks with impact. Zombi, that's a duo of passionate musicians, hailing from Pittsburgh: Steve Moore and Anthony Paterra. The band premiered with the 'Cosmos' album back in... Continue Reading →
If you are regular guest at Markus' Heavy Music Blog you recognized that I once in a while take a short detour to an album or a live show that might not be fully relevant in the context of rock and metal. Still, there is a lot of good music out there and releases like... Continue Reading →
Seventh Crystal was originally planned as a solo project, driven by Kristian Fyhr, known from Perpetual Etude. Rather early in the songwriting process, Fyhr realized that a band approach would fit the songs much better, also with the consequence for him do focus on the role as a singer only. That Sweden has quite some... Continue Reading →
