June 8, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Black Stone Cherry • 0 Comments
“Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea”, the third album from Kentucky rockers BLACK STONE CHERRY, sold 13,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 29 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD was released on May 31 via Roadrunner Records. BLACK STONE CHERRY, comprised […]
June 8, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Autopsy • 0 Comments
“Macabre Eternal”, the first full-length album from the legendary San Francisco Bay Area gore grind act AUTOPSY since 1995’s “Shitfun”, sold around 600 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD landed at position No. 67 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by […]
June 8, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Heavy Metal Reviews, Human Mastication, Salt The Wound, Sapremia • 0 Comments
Salt The Wound – ‘Kill The Crown’ 2011 A satisfying, well-produced Death Metal listen. S.T.W. can compete with any band on the Death Metal horizon. Kill The Crown is Salt The Wound‘s third LP. I personally prefer this young band over Children Of Bodom, As I Lay Dying, Job For A Cowboy, Viral Load, Gojira […]
June 7, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Judas Priest • 0 Comments
British heavy metal legends JUDAS PRIEST kicked off their “Epitaph” world tour earlier tonight (Tuesday, June 7) at 013 in Tilburg, Holland. The show marked the band’s first-ever concert with its latest addition, 31-year-old guitarist Richie Faulkner (LAUREN HARRIS, DIRTY DEEDS), who replaced Kenneth “K.K.” Downing in April. PRIEST’s setlist was as follows: 01. Rapid […]
June 7, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: NEIL PEART, Rush • 0 Comments
According to MusicRadar.com, RUSH drummer Neil Peart will be a guest on “Late Show With David Letterman” on Thursday, June 9 as part of the “Drum Solos Week”. The show’s producers have asked Peart to keep his solo down to “three, maybe four minutes,” says the drummer. According to Peart, when he was approached to […]
June 7, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: EYES OF NOCTUM • 0 Comments
According to TMZ.com, Weston “Arcane” Coppola Cage, the 20-year-old frontman of the California-based black metal band EYES OF NOCTUM and son of actor Nicolas Cage, was taken to the hospital by ambulance for a mental evaluation and possible 5150 hold. (A 5150 hold allows a qualified officer or clinician to involuntarily confine a person deemed […]
June 7, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: aerosmith • 0 Comments
According to Reuters, AEROSMITH will reunite next month with veteran producer Jack Douglas to begin work on the band’s long-delayed album, guitarist Joe Perry said on Tuesday. “Whole band has plans to go into the studio with Jack Douglas second week of July to work on new Aero CD,” Perry said on Twitter. The album […]
June 7, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Iron Dawn, Marduk • 0 Comments
Marduk – ‘Iron Dawn’ 2011 EP The most blasphemous band on planet Earth continues to shock and offend. Only this time around the Swedish Black Metal institution known as Marduk have gone back to the illustrious topic of war. The last album ‘Wormwood‘ dealt with the nothingness void of death that the Swedes believe on. […]
June 6, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Korn, SUFFOCATION, Suicide Silence • 0 Comments
KORN singer Jonathan Davis and SUFFOCATION frontman Frank Mullen will make guest appearances on “The Black Crown”, the new album from California deathcore masters SUICIDE SILENCE. The CD was recorded with heavyweight producer Steve Evetts (THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, EVERY TIME I DIE, HATEBREED) and will be released on July 12 via Century Media Records. […]
PAGAN’S MIND’s ‘Heavenly Ecstasy’ Lands On Norwegian Chart
June 8, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Pagan’s Mind • 0 Comments
“Heavenly Ecstasy”, the sixth album from the Norwegian melodic metal band PAGAN’S MIND, entered the official chart in the group’s home country at position No. 10 (international artists) and No. 2 (Norwegian artists). “Heavenly Ecstasy” was released on May 20 in Germany, May 23 in the rest of Europe and on May 31 in USA/Canada […]
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