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 15, 2015 by admin • Heavy Metal Interviews Tags: Clockwork Angels, Clockwork Lives, KJA, NEIL PEART, Rush, Sci Fi /Fiction • 0 Comments
1. First off, what in Lord’s name have you done or experienced … I mean I am floored by just the love story that is “The Bookseller’s Tale” to kick off the compilation of stories “Clockwork Lives”. And is this Kevin J. Anderson’s first love story? Jeesh! Thanks. As a writer, I try to absorb […]
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 […]
July 1, 2015 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Venom Cronos Black Metal Punk/Metal Heavy Metal Mantas Cronos • 0 Comments
Venom’s 2011 LP, “Fallen Angels” must have encountered — happened upon — a new age of deafness. Tone deafness, that is, as that’s what I’m talking about. This decade-opening Venom caveat was great. Period. Cronos was flying his sarcastic flag of Black Metal, for it, as per what he usually does. I hadn’t liked an […]
January 25, 2015 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Cold Winter Blades, Epic Metal, Fantasy Metal, Graveland, Ragnarok, Ragnarok 2013 movie, Rob Darken, Vikings • 0 Comments
As I watched the subtitled-in-Norwegian 2013 fantasy/Viking 2013 flick, “Ragnarok”, I pictured the flames and explosions ravaging the mystical Finnmarkian Scandinavian-Russian landscape — to the tune of “Cold Winter Blades”. To see Queen Asa clutch her three-sided necklace and the foolish king storm towards mayhaps the eye of Odin, I didn’t hear Bathory. I heard […]
Jenny Amlen – Stories To Tell
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 […]