September 12, 2013 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Heavy Metal, Rush, Secret Weapons • 0 Comments
1. RUSH – 1974’s Before & After 2. Fly By Night – 1975’s Rivendell 3. Caress Of Steel – 1975’s ‘The Fountain Of Lamneth 4. 2112 – 1976’s The Oracle 5. A Farewell To Kings – 1977’s A Farewell To Kings 6. Hemispheres – 1978’s Circumstances 7. Permanent Waves – 1980’s Entre Nous (translation from […]
September 11, 2013 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: BILL WARD, Black Sabbath, Doom, Doom Metal, Heavy Metal, Ozzy Osbourne, Terrence Geezer Butler, The Legacy, TONY IOMMI • 0 Comments
A quick look at Tony Iommi and Black Sabbath’s legacy: Heavy Metal’s true progenitors have created a monster! Sometimes someone is so great we wish to bring to fruition and duplicate what they have done; emulating them – maybe even perhaps surpassing them. This is what is going on with the emergent subcategory in Heavy […]
September 9, 2013 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Interviews Tags: cygnus-x1.net, fan site, fans, John Patuto, Rush • 0 Comments
John Patuto of Rush site cygnus-x1.net, talks Rush with Rich Castle in this interview. ====> CHECK OUT THE EXCLUSIVE DEATH SCREAM INTERVIEWS WITH JOE HASSELVANDER AND JOHN GALLAGHER OF RAVEN
September 8, 2013 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Anthems, Anthrax, heavey metal, metal, review, reviewed • 0 Comments
Any band in 2013 that uses the pentagram means they are worshipping the devil, or are just plain using the imagery to be very shocking. This is not 30 years ago when Motley Crue could ‘Shout At The Devil’ and Iron Maiden could proclaim via Vincent Price that ‘666 is a human number’ and call […]
August 28, 2013 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: 2012, CD, Clockwork Angels, LP, review, reviewed, Rush, studio • 0 Comments
RUSH – ‘Clockwork Angels’ – 2012 20th RUSH studio LP Progressive perfection in a 66:06 minutes/seconds multiple part song suite, concept album. And a novel goes with it, of the same name, coming out just months later written by the, also famous like RUSH is, author Kevin J. Anderson – a good friend of drummer […]
August 28, 2013 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Alex Lifeson, review, reviewed, Rush, Victor • 0 Comments
‘At The End’ is a bugout to listen to. I must hammer away at my readers to let it sink in as to just how weird this song is. So I intersperse this ‘Victor’ review once and for the last time with a blow-by-blow breakdown of the tune. One could picture Alex on the couch, […]
August 28, 2013 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Alex Lifeson, review, reviewed, Rush, Victor • 0 Comments
‘Victor’ is way long in the tooth to be reviewed. How many diehard RUSH fans have this album? To answer my own question: Not as many as I, certainly, would like to see. I know it’s the Geddy Lee solo album, “My Favorite Headache” that got most all the attention; seeing as it came out […]
August 27, 2013 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: reviewed, Rush, sankes & arrows • 0 Comments
Miscellanea Inc: Retrospectively speaking with 20/20 hindsight Here on Alex Lifeson’s birthday is a little time capsule. Join us as we turn the page…… This is the album that should be called the witche’s brew; the burning cauldron. The hodgepodge smorgasbord. There is ‘Far Cry’ that hammers itself into your skull. There is ‘Bravest Face’ […]
April 6, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Deftones • 0 Comments
DEFTONES frontman Chino Moreno told the Buenos Aires, Argentina radio station Vorterix Rock 103.1 earlier this week (see video below) that the band completed pre-production on its seventh album late last month and will enter the studio in a few days to begin recording the effort for a late 2012 release. “We start recording next week,” he said. “Right before […]
Vomitous – “Empires Of Great Enslavement” 2013
September 15, 2013 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: death metal, Empires Of Great Enslavement, heavey metal, review, Vomitous • 0 Comments
Brutal Death Metal from Sweden. With an album cover depicting a landscape that fictional, tough guy/Sci-fi movie character Richard B. Riddick might be right at home on, comes Vomitous with another vicious, ’bout quarter of an hour, bout of ear bullying. Yet the production quality is up to snuff, and the material slams to make […]
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