My World of Music – est. 2013
The Limit is a collaboration from the veterans having a history in punk and doom. Members of The Stooges and Testors reflect the punk attitude while Bobby Liebling (Pentagram) adds the doom metal influences and with Dawnrider, also metal impacts the sound on 'Caveman Logic'. What sounds like a wild combination works out in reality... Continue Reading →
I cannot remember The Treatment having released a bad album and their newest longplayer 'Waiting For Good Luck' is no break of this tradition. The guys from the UK premiered in 2011 with 'This Might Hurt' and has with the newest longplayer already their fifth record listed in the record stores. Good time rock'n'roll, catchy... Continue Reading →
A band, that wrote one of the hymns of my youth is The Offspring. I don't know how often I listened to 'Self Esteem' and its iconic beginning. The songs had been played so often when we kids went out on the baseball field for circling the bases. That was in the '90s. In the... Continue Reading →
What's a real supergroup? Often, these kind of 'supergroups' should be labeled as 'bands with known musicians included'. In the case of Liquid Tension Experiment we can truly talk about a supergroup for two reasons: the stellar musical capabilities and the songs that are jaw-dropping. What the quartet delivers on the third longplayer is the... Continue Reading →
The End Machine is one of the many projects that have been generated by Frontiers Music. The line-up of this outfit is an interesting one since it includes some well-known names in hard rock. With George Lynch and Jeff Pilson two main pillars of the successful Dokken line-up added their musical piece to The End... Continue Reading →
Hamburg-based Plattenkiste found a new creative way to handle the COVID crisis in an inspiring and heavily rocking way. It's a 3-CD set that is announce and here is the official statement from the Plattenkiste-Facebook site: "Since the governmental support package doesn't provide us with anything, we have to help ourselves in another way. The... Continue Reading →
One thing becomes crystal clear right away. The new Cheap Trick album brings a positive vibe to the plate that many of us need right here and now. It starts with the rocking and vibrant opener ‘The Summer Looks Good on You’. The irresistible melody catches your attention right away while the solo part manifests... Continue Reading →
It was on October 2nd, 1989 when British melodic rockers FM released with ‘Tough It Out’ an album that still belongs to the highlights this genre ever brought to surface. With no less than Neil Kernon at the helm, the album is a treat for fans of melodic rock music. To celebrate the 30th anniversary... Continue Reading →
Heavy Feather is a quartet, hailing from Stockholm, Sweden. The quartet is a rather new band that premiered in 2019 with 'Debris & Rubble'. Although the band is still rather new, the involved musicians are no strangers in the Stockholm hard rock scene. Singer Lisa Lystam is also fronting Siena Root and has an own... Continue Reading →
Authenticity is something that is precious to Motorjesus and the good thing is, that it comes naturally. The band, that operated in the beginning as The Shitheadz morphed into Motorjesus in the early 2000s. Since then the quintet released longplayers on a regular base with their latest studio album ‘Race to Resurrection’ which hit the... Continue Reading →
Genghis Tron is a band that was founded in 2004 in New York. The four-piece outfit is an experimental metal band where the metal aspect was very strong in the beginning and it’s the experimental component that gains momentum these days. The quartet premiered in 2006 with an album called ‘Dead Mountain Mouth’ which includes... Continue Reading →
It took a while until Evanescence returned with a new album. It has already been ten years that the band released their third album 'Evanescence'. A three-year break and major changes such as the split of the record label Wind-Up Records were factors that did not really benefit work on a new album. However, as... Continue Reading →
Time flies and a moment that makes you aware of it is the fact when you realize that a band like The Quill is already more than 25 years in business. The self-titled debut was released in 1995 and a solid amount of longplayer followed. The latest record was the 2017 release of 'Born From... Continue Reading →
Bergen-based metal pioneers Arve Isdal (Enslaved), Ivar Thormodsæter (Ulver) and Matias Monsen teamed-up under the banner of DROTT and it was a couple of weeks ago that the trio unleashed a first EP. The self-titled offer features four songs, all reflecting a wider range of sounds and musical influences. The EP begins with 'SHIKOBA', a songs... Continue Reading →
The sticker on the album promises "Traditional Heavy Metal displaying twin guitar and vocal harmonies, huge power chords and a pounding rhythm section!" and I can't disagree. If you have a look at the artwork first, the sound of the band could go two directions. Either we are facing a band that appreciates epic metal... Continue Reading →
