My World of Music – est. 2013
German metal heavyweights Helloween played a show in Japan in September 2023 as part of their "United Forces 2022-2023" tour. The show at the legendary Budokan in Tokyo was recorded and will be the basis for the new live album of the metal kings. The album, "Live at Budokan", will be released in different formats,... Continue Reading →
Finnish singer Tarja played a show at Hellfest 2016, a concert that was recorded and now is released as a live album. Tarja played 10 songs and with the exception of "Shameless" all songs are on the new record. As expected, the chosen songs reflect the harder and heavier aspect of a singer who can... Continue Reading →
The Gates of Slumber might be a band that not everyone has on their metal radar. Formed in 1998, the trio has released some really good albums, starting in 2004 with their debut, "…the Awakening". "The Wedge" marked the end of the first era of this doom behemoth from Indianapolis, Indiana, and the band disbanded... Continue Reading →
DeWolff is a band that is slowly starting to gain attention outside of The Netherlands. In their home country, however, the trio is quite popular and had their breakthrough with the "Orchards/Lupine" album. From then on, the van de Poel brothers and Robin Piso were regular guests in the top 10 of the Dutch album... Continue Reading →
It was in 2008 when guitarist Alex Beyrodt founded Voodoo Circle and debuted with the self-titled album that same year. After the positive response to the debut album, a second album was only a matter of time. It was in 2011 that "Broken Heart Syndrome" saw the light of day and marked another peak in... Continue Reading →
One of the most unpredictable bands today is Ulver from Norway. Founded in 1993 as a harsh and wild black metal outfit, the band has been constantly on the move when it comes to sounds. Ulver, the wolves, have continually reinvented their own brand, making innovation and transformation the hallmark of the Norwegian sound innovators.... Continue Reading →
Sunstorm is a project or more accurately a collective founded in 2006. The debut album featured guys like Joe Lynn Turner and Dennis Ward. In the course of time the line-up changed and the album "Afterlife" from 2021 was the first Sunstrom release with Ronnie Romero at the mic. With "Restless Fight" the eighth studio... Continue Reading →
Tonight there is some metalcore on the agenda as While She Sleeps will be playing at Hamburg's Grosse Freiheit 36. It was almost ten years ago that I saw the band for the first time when While She Sleeps opened for In Flames at 013 in Tilburg, Netherlands. And as it was then, so it... Continue Reading →
Rock legends Jethro Tull released a Christmas album in 2003. The longplayer is called "The Jethro Tull Christmas Album" and contains 16 songs. 21 years later, Ian Anderson is releasing a version of this album. "The Jethro Tull Christmas Album - Fresh Snow At Christmas" includes the original album mixes as well as remixes by... Continue Reading →
Rammstein keyboarder Flake has released his first solo album with covers of popular Christmas carols. "Flake feiert Weihnachten" (Flake celebrates Christmas) is the title of a longplayer with a tracklist of 16 songs. If you think of the traditional carols, you might be surprised what the iconic musician has created out of songs like "Winter... Continue Reading →
The enfant terrible of rock and metal, Marilyn Manson, releases "One Assassination Under God Chapter 1", his first new album in four years. It's his twelfth studio album in total and contains nine new songs. With "As Sick as the Secrets Within" the lead single from the new record was released in August and it... Continue Reading →
Birthday party at Markthalle in Hamburg as Helmet celebrate 30 years of "Betty". It is the third album of the New York alternative rock veterans and a very successful one at that. "Betty" was released in 1994 and marked another highlight in the band's career. Tonight Page Hamilton and his bandmates stop in Hamburg and... Continue Reading →
Iceland has a vibrant music scene and bands like Sólstafir are from the island in the far north. With Múr a new band joins the scene and adds another shade to the mix. The quintet combines various influences into a package that sounds really good. The self-titled album contains seven songs and the length of... Continue Reading →
Opeth has always been a band that surprises with new twists and turns in their music. Founded in 1990, the band started as a death metal force and is one of the pioneers of Scandinavian death metal. Over time, Opeth changed their musical compass, and it was the "Watershed" album that featured growls for the... Continue Reading →
Maat is a death metal outfit with a passion for ancient Egyptian mythology. This is something the guys from Bernau, Brandenburg have in common with their genre-mates Nile, and the same goes for the blazing fast death metal that the band's latest release "From Origin to Decay" contains. The new album is the third after... Continue Reading →
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