My World of Music – est. 2013
(8/10) Riff grinders Misery Index return with their sixth studio album in an 18 years history. Five long years after 'The Killing Gods' spread its morbid charm it's the new longplayer that brings back brutal death metal. 'Rituals of Power' features nine songs and it's oldschool death metal you get offered by the Baltimore-based powerhouse,... Continue Reading →
Doom pioneers Saint Vitus revealed some first details of the upcoming album. The album contains a tracklist that looks like this: 1. Remains (6:23)2. A Prelude to... (3:20)3. Bloodshed (3:04)4. 12 Years In The Tomb (5:24)5. Wormhole (5:22)6. Hour Glass (5:23)7. City Park (4:01)8. Last Breath (6:38)9. Useless (1:32) The album is simply entitled 'Saint Vitus' and... Continue Reading →
(*/10) Black metallers Der Weg Einer Freiheit played a show at Lido in Berlin, Germany on October 14th, 2017. The concert, in front of an enthusiastic crowd, was captured and will be now released as a live album. Simply entitled ‘Live in Berlin’ the record features a ten songs setlist that represents the entire discography... Continue Reading →
(8/10) Greek metal veterans Rotting Christ can look back on a long history in metal. The endeavor began in 1987 in Athens. The debut escaped from the abyss in 1993 and step by step the quartet managed to increase their fanbase. Rotting Christ never had the big breakthrough but it’s the constant evolvement of their... Continue Reading →
(8/10) If you check Wikipedia for ‘algorithm’ you get the following answer: “In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm (/ˈælɡərɪðəm/ ) is an unambiguous specification of how to solve a class of problems.” Now, I’m not sure French-Canadian metalists Beyond Creation wants to solve a specific problem, but the new album definitely delivers to the... Continue Reading →
(7/10) It was in 1981 when the Puzio brothers founded a band they named Vulcain. Already one year later the band premiered with 'Rock'n'Roll Secours' and became one of the most constant outfits in French metal and hard rock. Also an eleven years time-out couldn't kill the rock'n'roll spirit. After a split-up in 1998 the... Continue Reading →
(8/10) Crippled Black Phoenix is a rock outfit, hailing from Bristol, UK. The band has its beginning in 2004 when Justin Greaves started to outline some first musical ideas which have been the base for Crippled Black Phoenix. The start was more with a project thinking but things evolved and six studio albums saw the... Continue Reading →
(8/10) After Black Tusk was confronted with the sad situation of losing their bass player Jonathan Athon (RIP) in a motorcycle accident back in 2014, the guys had to go through some tougher times. The latest album, ‘Pillars of Ash’, honored Athon’s memory and it was former Kylesa member Corey Barhorst that could be recruited... Continue Reading →
(8/10) In case you stumble over Foscor’s new release by coincident you might wonder why this longplayer gets a review on MHMB. Digging a bit deeper into the background of the release as well as of the band reveals the roots of this metal band from Catalonia. Foscor started in 1997 as a black metal... Continue Reading →
(*/10) Former The Melvins bass player Mark Deutron unveils end of July his next solo album. ‘Brief Sensuality & Western Violence’ is Deutron sixth solo album and features 50 minutes of art rock that puts quite some demands on the listener. This longplayer isn’t an easy swinging album or a riff factory that acts as... Continue Reading →
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