February 20, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News 0 Comments
Brendon Small, co-creator of “Metalocalypse”, the smash hit animated series on Adult Swim featuring the fictitious metal band DETHKLOK, has written and produced BRENDON SMALL’S GALAKTIKON “A High Stakes Intergalactic Extreme Rock Album”, the debut release from his long-awaited side project. Due in April, the CD’s arrival will coincide with the Season 4 premiere of […]
February 19, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Christian Mistress, Possession • 0 Comments
This review has been kicking my ass for weeks now. Not entirely unheard of, to be sure, but this time around it’s proved a pretty damnable little dilemma because I know exactly how I feel about this new Christian Mistress album. I love it. I love it to little bitty pieces. If I was a […]
February 19, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Seven Deadly, UFO • 0 Comments
I won’t take another opportunity to mention how underrated UFO is in the history of hard rock and how you should totally check them out, unless I do it in some sort of back-handed, surreptitious manner. Instead, I’ll just assume that you’re already aware of the fact that this band released some great music back […]
February 19, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Pallbearer, Sorrow and Extinction • 0 Comments
On the strength of a three-song demo from 2010, Little Rock, Arkansas’s Pallbearer quickly became one of the most talked-about names in metal’s catty, cantankerous underground. Fast-forward a year and a half or so, and Pallbearer’s debut full-length Sorrow and Extinction on new label home Profound Lore offers marble-chiseled proof that the demo was no […]
February 19, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News 0 Comments
TURISAS was the big winner at the Finnish Metal Awards, which was held Saturday night (February 18) during the Finnish Metal Expo (the main event of Helsinki Metal Meeting) at the Cable Factory in Helsinki, Finland. The winners were selected by the general public in the months preceding the event, by Internet and SMS. In […]
February 19, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News 0 Comments
According to an online posting by the moderator of the official DOKKEN forum, the band has set “Broken Bones” as the title of its new album. DOKKEN began tracking the effort this past Monday for a late spring/early summer release via Frontiers Records. The cooperation between Frontiers and DOKKEN started with the European release of […]
February 19, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News 0 Comments
Finnish folk metallers ENSIFERUM have entered the studio to begin recording their fifth album for a late spring/early summer release via Spinefarm Records. The drums, bass, grand piano and Hammond organ parts are being tracked at Petrax studio in Hollola, Finland while the rest will be laid down at Yellow House studio in Hämeenlinna, Finland […]
February 19, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News 0 Comments
DEF LEPPARD guitarist Phil Collen will take part in a Twitter question-and-answer session with fans on Wednesday, February 22 at 6 p.m. EST. Phil will be on the band’s official Twitter page answering questions live. To post a question: In the “What’s Happening” box on your Twitter profile, type your question. Add the hashtag, #AskPhil […]
February 19, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News 0 Comments
ONE-WAY MIRROR — the French band featuring Guillaume Bideau (MNEMIC) and David and Franck Potvin (LYZANXIA, PHAZE I) — will release its sophomore album, “Destructive By Nature”, on April 16. A one-and-a-half-minute trailer for the CD can be seen below. ONE-WAY MIRROR previously stated about the upcoming album, “Even though they composed these latest bombtracks […]
EXUMER: New Song Available For Streaming
February 20, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News 0 Comments
“Fire & Damnation”, the first album in 24 years from German thrash metal veterans EXUMER, will be released in North America on April 10 via Metal Blade Records. The 10-track CD, which was recorded with renowned producer Waldemar Sorychta (GRIP INC., THERION, SODOM, MOONSPELL), “combines a punishing production with aggressive songwriting,” according to a press […]