September 19, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: death metal, grindcore, Heavy Metal, Micawber, Viral • 0 Comments
31 minutes and 51 seconds of ghoulish, brutish nasty Death Metal. It is loud, played and produced well and clearly. Micawber hail from the West of the U.S.A. The band has made 3 excellent EPs before debuting with “Viral”. I have no idea what their band name means nor exactly how to pronounce it. Nor […]
September 16, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Extreme Metal, grindcore, Rediscovering The Dead, Sewn Shut • 0 Comments
Selfmadegod from Poland have a real worthy collection of grindcore Eps and whatnot from the amazing Sewn Shut. Put ’em all together and there is new stuff too. How time and dust has buried them along with most of my memories of the year 2005 I haven’t a clue, though. I do know that these […]
September 15, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Brutal Death Metal, EP, Goregrind, Parfumerie • 0 Comments
Surely, to be reminded of 1988 CARCASS’s delicious debut LP with the front cover of this delectable EP by Grinding Death Metallers, Parfumerie is anathema enough. The band name is also delectably incomprehensible as it looks like it was drawn with one finger and a pool of blood. (That means if I wear the T-shirt, […]
May 25, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews 0 Comments
The strong-souled tightrope walking vixen, beguiling with her winged presence is worth the price of admission alone for April 2014’s second issue (of six) for CLOCKWORK ANGELS. The ego-less, ex-apple orchard manager’s new and forever girl is featured! Francesca flies down and gives the smitten young man, Owen Hardy, a rose he treasures. In fell swoop […]
May 10, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews 0 Comments
The Ding Dong Lounge on April 26th the RR website schedule says. Yeah. Rick Rocker is playing there. And he’s a ding dong, big-time. Most people who are musicians and are not morbidly obese can fit through doorways. Then there are those musicians who are terminally anorexic and can’t fit through doorways. Rick Rocker is […]
May 7, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News 0 Comments
Will the real Redeemer of Souls please step up? The “Plagues Of Babylon” artwork shown above the reverent ‘Priest’s new album’s artwork is all so much alike. It feels like we are living “Among The Living Dead” (the new Iced Earth song from it and a video, too). Judas Priest has unveiled the intense “Redeemer […]
May 7, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews 0 Comments
SCi FI DEATH METAL TO Make Richard Riddick Proud. Australia. Now here’s a country with an interesting scene. HOBBS’ANGEL OF DEATH is the father of Death Metal down there. MORTAL SIN had a heck of a tuneful thrash band. Scrolls of the Megilloth, defined the true meaning of Christian Australian Death Metal with Mortification, who […]
May 4, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews 0 Comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VoFmCocTs0 1989/1990: Getting to be mature men, well and truly in their middle thirties , RUSH decided on a poppy direction. Man, I loved it! It turned out to be the album “Presto”, released in 1989. The tour was far briefer than had been the case for RUSH in the past, thankfully shorter in comparison by past […]
May 3, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews 0 Comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-7lQwmN9DI By the time that studio album #7 for RUSH, “Permanent Waves” rolled around, all the drama, talent and versatility to make albums of varying moods and styles had combined with the sheer ferocity of getting the job done.1974’s “RUSH” and “2112” versus “A Farewell To Kings” and “Permanent Waves” would set the well-lighted path/(stage) towards the more […]
ISENGARD – (The Death Scream ReDisc*overy Series – band #1)
September 26, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: ISENGARD • 0 Comments
Once upon a time in Norway, there was the ever-(and still is)-ambitious young true Heavy Metal heart of one, Fenriz. He, and his greatest and most consistent partner throughout the years flying a most blackened flag has been the infamous Nocturno Culto, having made Black and Death and Doomy, Thrashy, Crusty, Grinding albums for 30 […]