September 22, 2016 by Rich Castle • Reviews Tags: Christian, Gospel, Gregory Luster, Ice, North Carolina, Rap, Salisbury • 0 Comments
Christian Gospel music from Salisbury, North Carolina, Gregory is a smooth golden-voiced singer who will simply mesmerize you with his interesting palette of new music. Eddy Grant’s “Electric Avenue” is a good reference point for those unacquainted with the myriad talent that is Mr. Luster. If there is a man who feels as blessed as […]
September 22, 2016 by Rich Castle • Reviews Tags: aggro-doom, Fires Within Fires, Heavy Metal, Metal Sludge, Neurosis • 0 Comments
We are onto to a winner here. Neurosis has been around long enough to have gotten their creative ya-yas out long ago. A creative superforce, Neurosis has been churning out their brand of aggro-doom for years; long enough to have ceased needing to weird out to satisfy themselves and their audience. Now Neurosis are a […]
September 22, 2016 by Rich Castle • Reviews Tags: Jenny & The Generators, Jenny Amlen, New York City, Stories To Tell • 0 Comments
A sultry and ageless songstress, Jenny & The Generators can pack a house, and bring it down at that. The former Heavy Metal/Hard Rock frontwoman for New York City’s own Cold Sweat in the century gone by; though this time Jenny has teamed up with her brother David Amlen and collaborated to make a shimmering […]
September 22, 2016 by Rich Castle • Reviews Tags: Belgium, Heavy Metal, Oathbreaker, Rheia • 0 Comments
The proud continent of Europe musically has seen fit to hit us hard with a new assemblage of tunes from Oathbreaker. Oathbreaker hail from Belgium and spit melancholy and intricate Heavy Metal dirges out like they have originated from Hell’s own hearth. Blistering is the name of the game with these blokes. “Rheia” features the […]
September 22, 2016 by Rich Castle • Reviews Tags: Against Human Manipulation, death metal, Mental Apraxia • 0 Comments
Colombia strikes hard with a new and totally disgusting release from the Death Metal titans, Mental Apraxia. Coyote Records’ finest, certainly, Mental Apraxia bust out this torrid second full-length affair with all the poise and skillful assertion as Jack The Ripper, himself. For those who revel in primitive metal butchery, Mental Apraxia stand somewhere in […]
September 22, 2016 by Rich Castle • Reviews Tags: Black Metal, Budapest, Cvltvs Diaboli, Hungary, Malvm • 0 Comments
Misanthropy, darkened crevices, and sneaking Satanic slyness: These words describe the diabolical sounds resonating from this 2016 Malvm EP. Malvm are Budapest, Hungary’s newest Black Metal behemoths. They have an unGodly commanding manner of delivering no bull-crap, full-speed ahead Metal that burrows deep into the pandemonium set forth by Celtic Frost, Mayhem, and Behomoth. Yet […]
July 2, 2015 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Araya, Exodus, Hanneman, Holt, King, Slayer, Thrash • 0 Comments
Unrepentant. That is how Slayer feel at this moment in time about having an album that spawned it’s legs by being released on 9-11-2001, “God Hates Us All”. In any case this new album carries the stench of death also by being Slayer’s post-Hanneman affair. “Repentless” (bad English is not cool Mr. Araya and Mr. […]
July 2, 2015 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News 0 Comments
RUSH celebrated almost 30 years in the saddle, (a premature R30 one can say) — almost — when they strode into the ill-fated “Test For Echo” tour, following an often irreverent and difficult 16th album. Songs like “Dog Years”, “Carve Away The Stone”, “Resist”, and “Driven” — as a sample of the tracks on what […]
July 1, 2015 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Atmospheric, Black Metal, Germany, new bands, new releases • 0 Comments
Release May 15, 2015, Antlers are billed as Black Metal from Germany, Spain and Catelonia. That description on YouTube is too complicated. The band actually simply hails from outermost Germany. Get this (of course, limited) 12-inch vinyl on Vendetta Records while you can. The band’s debut is Atmospheric Black Metal, to be exact. I love […]
Aaron Shust – Ever Be
September 23, 2016 by Rich Castle • Reviews Tags: Aaron Shust, Christian • 0 Comments
The mighty pure Christian rock force / the man, Aaron Shust, who has penned “My God, My Savior” and “To God Alone”, has new material for his fans. A force in the Christian Rock scene for over a decade, Aaron Shust is more than a singer/songwriter. For fans of acts as diverse as Petra to […]
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