My World of Music – est. 2013
California-based metal powerhouse Ruthless announce a new album. 'The Fallen' will be the band's forth longpplayer which will be released end of the year via Fireflash Records. Stay tuned for more info. Photo: Alex Solca
Fear Factory announced a tour with shows in Europe and UK. The band will be supported by Butcher Babies from the US and Ignea from Ukraine. The tour will start on Oct. 27th, 2023 in Nottingham, UK and will end on December 16th, 2023 in Helsikini, Finland. Here are all the dates: 27 Oct -... Continue Reading →
Metal Church belongs to the forerunners of power- and thrash metal. The band, initiated by Kurdt Vanderhoof, launched a stellar debut in 1984 and it was the cover version of Deep Purple’s ‘Highway Star’ which is one of the greatest interpretations of the classic. And it fitted perfectly into the context of the album. ‘The... Continue Reading →
Fatal Collapse is a rather new band. The guys, hailing from Hamburg, started 2022 and have with ‘Hell is Here’ a first release in the starting blocks. Inspired by thrash metal and crossover from the 80s the band recorded four songs and what you get to hear is quite good stuff. Fatal Collapse, that is... Continue Reading →
South Tyrol is known for wine, great food, and a lot of sunny days. In such an environment also, the dark side needs to find a place and Graveworm delivers the soundtrack. The band from Bolzano is around since 1992. The quintet released albums on a very regular base, but it was a long waiting... Continue Reading →
Mezzrow hail from Nyköping, Sweden and have just released their second album 'Summon Thy Demons'. The band debuted with 'Then Came the Killing' and is a serious candidate for an award for longest time between debut album and sophomore release. There are a mind blowing 33 years between the two albums. With Uffe Pettersson and... Continue Reading →
Richmond, Virginia is known for fabulous metal bands, thinking about representatives like Municipal Waste and Lamb Of God. Enforced is also hailing from this metal melting pot. Three years after founding the band. the quintet launched their debut album called 'At the Walls’. The record created attention at Century Media who signed the band and... Continue Reading →
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 →
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