My World of Music – est. 2013
German thrash metal institution Holy Moses will release their new album ‘Invisible Queen’ in a few days and will play numerous shows during 2023. Now the band announced their very last show ,which will take place on December 27th, 2023 at Markthalle, Hamburg. It will be also Sabina Classen’s 60th birthday, so enough good reasons... Continue Reading →
Holy Moses belongs the heroes of German thrash metal. Especially the first four albums belong to the genre defining releases, unleashed in a time when bands like Kreator and Sodom were in the fledgling phase too. Maybe it was the hiatus in the second half of the 90s that took away some attention from the... Continue Reading →
Legendary metal outfit Hirax premiered in 1985 with an album called ‘Raging Violence’. The sophomore longplayer ‘Hate, Fear and Power’ was unleashed next, also through Metal Blade Records. These days Armageddon Label re-issues both records as vinyl. The first time in 20 years. Release date will be April 22nd, 2023 and the audio has been... Continue Reading →
Lost Society will hit the road early June for a few shows in Europe. Frontman Samy Elbanna comments: “After the biggest Finnish tour of our career, we are beyond excited to announce the first European headline dates for the “If the Sky Came Down” tour! We can’t wait to bring you a long set of... Continue Reading →
The voice of Marc Grewe is closely associated with Germany's death metal legend Morgoth. After Grewe parted ways with Morgoth he was and still is active in various bands and projects. One of them is Deimos' Dawn. The quartet, which besides the frontman also includes the band's founders Andy Doé (guitar), Matthias Lange (bass), and... Continue Reading →
A tour, which unfortunately also had to be postponed more than once, is the one of Germany's metal institution Kreator. Originally planned for April 2020, the 'State of Unrest'-tour could not take place in 2021 and 2022 either. But now the time has come. Kreator and Lamb Of God are touring Europe and have chosen... Continue Reading →
A death metal album that I don't want to withhold from you is hitting the stores these days and it's called 'Everything Belongs to Death'. It is the full-length debut of a band that is neither from Scandinavia nor Florida. This trio is based in Osaka, Japan and has released a full studio Album after... Continue Reading →
Siege Of Power emerged from a project called First Class Elite. More than a few songs on a split album did not come out of this project and yet it laid the foundation for a band that presented a debut album in 2018. Siege Of Power, these are well-known names from the death metal sphere.... Continue Reading →
That Southern Germany has generated some famous metal bands, is not a new fact. If you think of Destruction, Primal Fear,… etc. then it shows that Swabia also has a lot to offer musically. A band that is not completely new, but also not really established yet are Endlevel from Albstadt. Jonas Frey (drums), Ken... Continue Reading →
One of Germany's most legendary thrash metal bands, Holy Moses, announced a new album. ‘Invisible Queen’ is the title and the longplayer which be launched on April 14th, 2023 via Fireflash Records. Now, a first single has been unveiled, which is the title track. In addition, the 2-CD Digipak will include a bonus CD entitled... Continue Reading →
Finnish thrash metal band Prestige re-issued their debut album ‘Attack Against Gnomes’ via Massacre Records and share a new song. ‘Candles’ is the title of a new track and vocalist and bassist Aku Kytölä states: "Fear not, "Candles" is not your average romantic or cheesy song. But it's still based on real life. There are... Continue Reading →
Bay Area thrash metal giants, Testament and Exodus, have announced that they will be teaming up for a 2023 European tour in May and June. In addition to some of the biggest and most renowned European open air festivals like Hellfest, Graspop, Copenhell, Sweden Rock, Metalfest, Mystic and Rock Hard Festival, the bands will also be playing a bunch... Continue Reading →
Swedish metal powerhouse Mezzrow returns after more than 30 years and launched with ‘Through the Eyes of the Ancient Gods’ a new song. The powerful trash anthem can be watched here: https://youtu.be/R_9RKWat8bc The song is the appetizer for the bands second album ‘Summon Thy Demons’ which will be released on April 21st, 2023 and will... Continue Reading →
Belgium thrash metal force Schizophrenia announced an EP with cover versions for February 10th, 2023. After having unveiled ‘Maze of Torment’ from Morbid Angel the band launched with Slayer’s ‘Necrophiliac’ a next single. Vocalist and bassist Ricky Mandozzi comments: "Slayer has always been one of our main influences so it was an easy choice to... Continue Reading →
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Roadrunner Records, the label arranged an all-star session, an event that took place on December 15th, 2005 at Nokia Theater in New York City. A total of 57 musicians, representing 45 bands performed a huge number of songs with Joey Jordison of Slipknot, Robb Flynn of Machine Head, Dino... Continue Reading →
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