March 8, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Morbid Visions, Sepultura • 0 Comments
Sepultura- “Morbid Visions” LP- 1986 (Cogumelo Records) So what do we have here?: 30 out of 100 in Metal Forces magazine. Bull crap! Sepultura are Gods who have made their official appearance in Death Scream. Sepultura are the mighty Brazilian Gods who combine talent with thrash and end up with death metal that makes Dark […]
March 8, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Thrash Metal Attack • 0 Comments
Thrash Metal Attack – Compilation LP (New Renaissance- NRR27) This record took well over a year to come out due to legal hassles with the bankruptcy of the original distributor, Greenworld, allowing bands on this LP to come out with their debut discs, beforehand. Bands like Post Mortem, Bloodfeast, Wehrmacht, Anvil Bitch, and Necrophagia(Ohio), all […]
March 8, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Bloody Vengeance, Vulcano • 0 Comments
Vulcano – “Bloody Vengeance” LP Rock Brigade Records Z You can tell at first glance what this record is like exactly. It’s ‘vengeful’ and it sure as hell is ‘bloody’ also. These fancy adjectives describe one of the world’s few totally brutal death-metal bands. Vulcano join Sepultura, Death, Slaughter, Messiah, Excruciation,(early) Possessed, Master/Death Strike and […]
March 7, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Candlemass, Tales Of Creation • 0 Comments
Candlemass – “Tales Of Creation” 1990 LP (Enigma/Metal Blade Records) The Number one band of the 70’s for must of us hard rockers/heavy metallers is Black Sabbath. The Number one band of the 80’s with a Sabs-like presence is doom metallers Candlemass. Candlemass were formerly monickered Nemesis, in a quite different incarnation, making one EP […]
March 7, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: System of a Down • 0 Comments
A couple more dates have been added to System of a Down’s run with Gogol Bordello , with new stops including Los Angeles and San Diego. Dates follow: May 10 Edmonton, AB @ Rexall Place May 12 Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena May 13 Seattle, WA @ Key Arena May 15 Mountain View, CA @ […]
March 7, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: E-X-E, Stricken By Might • 0 Comments
E-X-E – “Stricken By Might” LP (Shatter Records PAL- 1231) What is this? A “real” thrash-metal band from New York, on vinyl, no less? Well the first two songs “Slaughter Disorder” and “Stricken By Might” sound damn authentic enough. But as of “Autopsy” it becomes increasingly clear to me that E-X-E is one of those […]
March 7, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: John Lydon, Ozzy Osbourne, Sex Pistols • 0 Comments
John Lydon, the frontman of Public Image Ltd. and former vocalist of iconic punk rock legends the Sex Pistols, has hit out against Ozzy Osbourne for what he perceives to be an endorsement of drug abuse Via SMN News
March 7, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Gigan • 0 Comments
Gigan , the Chicago-based band formed by guitarist Eric Hersemann (ex- Diabolic , Hate Eternal ), will release its sophomore album, “Quasi-Hallucinogenic Sonic Landscapes” , on June 7 via Willowtip Records . The CD was recorded in November 2010 at Semaphore studios with producer Sanford Parker and features such songtitles as “Mountains Perched Like Beasts […]
March 7, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Best Metal Album, Enslaved, Spellmann Award • 0 Comments
Norwegian extreme metal outfit Enslaved picked up the Spellmann Award for Best Metal Album of 2010 yesterday (March 5th) for their most recent studio release, “Axioma Ethica Odini,” which was released last year through Indie Recordings. The award is the Norwegian equivilant to the Grammys and Enslaved thought off tough competition to earn it, beating […]
Former Anthrax singer Dan Nelson launches Farewell To Washington
March 8, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Anthrax, Dan Nelson, Farewell To Washington • 0 Comments
Former Anthrax singer Dan Nelson has joined forces with Dan “Shaggy” Hoffman and Joe Post in a brand new Levittown, New York-based “rock / blues / punk / metal / hardcore / fun” band called Farewell To Washington . According to Nelson , the group will enter “our junkie little studio a.k.a. Via SMN News