March 18, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Benedictum, Dominion • 0 Comments
Benedictum- “Dominion” 2011 LP If Veronica Freeman looking for all the world to see like the lady in black wasn’t enough to get your blood pumping; with her band that she fronts – Benedictum breaking out in 2006 with the Black Sabbath smash-hit “Heaven And Hell” on their “Uncreation” disc, they have in early March, […]
March 17, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Day Of Reckoning, Destruction • 0 Comments
Destruction- “Day Of Reckoning”- 2011 LP (Nuclear Blast) Destruction, Kreator and Sodom. Schmeir, Mille Petrozza and Tom Angelripper are the mainman/mainstays of these German Death Metal warhorses that have been trudging along since the mid-1980’s. Hopping along like a real fun thrashterpiece is this instant classic from the above mentioned bass playing frontman Schmeir and […]
March 17, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Crowbar, Sever The Wicked Hand • 0 Comments
Crowbar- “Sever The Wicked Hand” 2011 Kirk Windstein is best known recently for his Down side project. But for underground metalheads we like him for what he’s done with Crowbar. And they are back. 2005’s “Lifesblood For The Downtrodden” may have seemed like Mardi Gras town’s lost rebel yell. Good sewer metal. Yes that old […]
March 17, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Manowar, Thunder In The Sky • 0 Comments
Manowar- “Thunder In The Sky” 2009 EP (Prelude to the “Hammer Of The Gods” full-length album) Manowar’s “Hammer Of The Gods” LP is going to be a smash when it comes out. The band will be using a new drummer. It is 2011, as I write, as we wait for a sign from these living […]
March 17, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Iced Earth • 0 Comments
In the wake of vocalist Matt Barlow ‘s retirement, dozens of demos and resumes flooded Iced Earth ‘s management team. But one name kept popping up – Into Eternity vocalist Stu Block (pictured below), who has been named the new lead singer for Iced Earth . According to Schaffer , Robert Kampf , Ceo of […]
March 17, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Portrait • 0 Comments
Guitarist Richard Lagergren of Swedish heavy metal act Portrait has issued the following statement about the band’s upcoming album: “The eight songs on ‘Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae’ constitutes Portrait’s by far darkest, hardest and most intense material to date. This album is an outburst of a long time of targeted hard work, an intense creative […]
March 17, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Clamfight • 0 Comments
Philadelphia-area doom quartet Clamfight has signed with The Maple Forum for the release of the band’s upcoming full-length album. The crew of childhood friends from the South Jersey/Philadelphia area, who have been jamming together in various bands since 1997, will begin recording the new album next month. Clamfight will be returning to Gradwell House Studios, […]
March 17, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Opeth, The Throat Of Winter • 0 Comments
Exclusive for U.S. Record Store Day 2011, Opeth will release a 7” vinyl edition of “The Throat of Winter” on April 16th. The track, which was originally featured on the “God of War: Blood & Metal” digital EP, will see its first and only physical incarnation with this special release. Side B of the 7” […]
March 17, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Agnostic Front • 0 Comments
The fourth and final Agnostic Front studio update for “My Life, My Way” has been posted online and can be viewed below. This video update focuses of the recording of front man Roger Miret’s vocals tracks as well the bass work of Mike Gallo.
Cripple Bastards, Magrudergrind Team Up For NYC Show
March 18, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Cripple Bastards, Magrudergrind • 0 Comments
Italian grindcore legends CRIPPLE BASTARDS will make their return to New York City on Wednesday, May 25th with a show at Public Assembly in Brooklyn, NY. Support for the show will come from DC’s MAGRUDERGRIND, Australia’s THE KILL, New Mexico’s NOISEAR, and Florida’s S**TSTORM.