My World of Music – est. 2013
Swedish rockers Backyard Babies are on the road with 'The Nordic Noir Tour 2019' and the final stop on this road trip is in Utrecht. De Helling hosts the quartet on May 4th - a day that includes National Dodenherdenking at 20:00, when Holland stands still in two minutes of silence to commemorate the victims... Continue Reading →
(8/10) Swedish musician Per Wiberg is a well-known name in rock and metal. He was part of Opeth, is a member of hard rockers Spiritual Beggars and also Kamchatka is a band he's part of. Wiberg can be described as multi-instrumentalist with a focus on guitar, bass and keyboards. The Swede describes himself as a... Continue Reading →
(8/10) The first time I heard of Port Noir was three years ago when the guys released with 'A New Way the Wind Carries' their cool sophomore longplayer. The next step for me was seeing them live while supporting Pain Of Salvation on their 2017 tour, which brought the band to Leiden. Having played an... Continue Reading →
(8/10) What to write about a frontman and a band that's more than 40 years in business? Certainly I don't need to introduce you to David Coverdale and Whitesnake, the singer and band I'm talking about. If you didn't live under a rock for the last decades you have heard about the legendary band earlier... Continue Reading →
(8/10) Jack Slamer, that's not a dude, that's a band comprising of Florian Ganz, Cyrill Vollenweider, Marco Hostettler, Hendrik Ruhwinkel and Adrian Böckli. The quintet calls Winterthur in Switzerland their homebase and it was in th year 2006 when the base for this powerhouse was laid. 'Noise from the Neighbourhood' was the title of the... Continue Reading →
(7/10) The Damned Things, that's a project initiated by Anthrax's Scott Ian and Fall Out Boy guitarist Joe Trohman. The guys started a first conversation nine years ago and found some common ground when it comes to music and idols in Rock and Metal. Next to a passion for dirty Rock music in general, it's... Continue Reading →
(8/10) Dark Blue Inc. is an interesting outfit in many aspects. First of all it's the band members, all with a longer track record in rock and metal. The band is the brain child of Bonfire and Sainted Sinner guitarist Frank Pané who teamed up with other well-known musicians. Göran Edman is known from bands... Continue Reading →
(9/10) In case you read some of my earlier reviews you know that Toronto belongs to my favorite places. The Canadian metropole, also home of the Blue Jays, is the homebase of quite some rock- and metal bands with Danko Jones being one of them. The singer and guitarist premiered with 'Sugar Chocolate 7 in... Continue Reading →
(8/10) When the sun wins battling the winterly darkness in the North of Norway some first sun rays make some new diamonds shine. One of these shiny news is Pristine's newest album 'Road Back to Ruin'. Pristine is the brainchild of Heidi Solheim, a singer hailing from the far North. Tromsø is her home and... Continue Reading →
(8/10) ‘Under Stars’ is the final chapter of a trilogy that began in 2015 with an album entitled ‘Please Come Home’. The following chapter ‘The Big Dream’ continued the concept in 2017 and another two years later it’s this release that marks the closing chapter. The creative mind behind this trilogy of Lonely Robot is... Continue Reading →
(9/10) Music from Bavaria is often reduced to humpa-humpa Oktoberfest music, but the region in Germany's South-East brings more to table. One representative of Bavarian music with style is RPWL. The four guys from Freising, Bavaria is the successor of a band called Violet District. Kalle Wallner and Chris Postl played in this band and... Continue Reading →
I can't remember that I've ever been to church twice within less than a week, but now it happens. After having witnessed Long Distance Calling's great show at Kulturkirche Altona it is guitar wizard Devin Townsend that invites for a special show to Grote Kerk in Haarlem. Also this time it's impressive to enter a... Continue Reading →
(9/10) Keyboarder Jordan Rudess is well-known from all his years with prog metal pioneers Dream Theater. It was in 1999 when he joined the quintet from New York. What’s less known is that the master of the keys also release many solo albums with ‘Listen’ being one of them. Rudess is a restless mind when... Continue Reading →
(9/10) If an album/band includes Doug Aldrich on guitar the result can‘t be anything else than a blistering rock record with excellent guitar play as a fundamental ingredient. Regardless if it is Aldrich’s contribution to The Dead Daisies or Revolution Saints, all good bands with great songs in their musical repertoire. Another outfit, with Aldrich... Continue Reading →
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