May 24, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Autopsy, Macabre Eternal • 0 Comments
Autopsy – ‘Macabre Eternal’ 2011 LP Following up on Autopsy‘s 2010’s comeback EP, ‘The Tomb Within‘ is the 2011 comeback LP ‘Macabre Eternal‘ that puts things front and center for yet another Heavy Metal band to rise from the dead and make a comeback LP. 1995 saw the release of the fourth Autopsy LP, ‘Shitfun‘, […]
May 23, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Mastodon • 0 Comments
Atlanta progressive metallers MASTODON are currently in the studio recording the follow-up to their acclaimed concept album “Crack The Skye”, one of the most critically lauded records of the past decade. The band is tracking the new CD at Doppler Studios in Atlanta with producer Mike Elizondo. Drum tracks were previously completed in Los Angeles […]
May 23, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Destruction • 0 Comments
On May 22, Aniruddh “Andrew” Bansal of Metal Assault conducted an interview with bassist/vocalist Marcel “Schmier” Schirmer of German thrash metal veterans DESTRUCTION at the Key Club in West Hollywood, California. You can now watch the chat below. “Day Of Reckoning”, the new album from DESTRUCTION, sold around 800 copies in the United States in […]
May 23, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: MACHINAE SUPREMACY • 0 Comments
Bernhard of Austria’s Stormbringer.at webzine conducted an interview with rhythm guitarist Andreas Gerdin and bassist Johan Hedlund of MACHINAE SUPREMACY, the five-piece from Luleå, Sweden whose particular take on metal reflects the influence of video games on contemporary culture, before the band’s April 29, 2011 concert in Vienna, Austria with CHILDREN OF BODOM. You can […]
May 23, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Forgotten Tomb, Under Saturn Retrograde • 0 Comments
Forgotten Tomb – ‘Under Saturn Retrograde’, 2011 LP Forgotten Tomb is an Italian blackened Doom Metal band that was formed in Piacenza, Italy in 1999. The Gothic, Industrial, Dark and Operatic Black Metal had been going for about 10 years and have definitely figured into the horizons that the band would explore. Katatonia, Paradise Lost, […]
May 20, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: RAMMSTEIN • 0 Comments
German industrial metallers RAMMSTEIN performed the song “Du Hast” on last night’s (Thursday, May 19) episode of ABC-TV’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”. You can now watch video footage of the band’s appearance on the show below. RAMMSTEIN bassist Oliver “Ollie” Riedel revealed during an interview with MusikUniverse.net that the band’s 2010 concerts in New York and […]
May 20, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Anvil • 0 Comments
Andrew Matte of The Regina Leader-Post recently conducted an interview with guitarist/vocalist Steve “Lips” Kudlow of Canadian heavy metal legends ANVIL. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. On the success of “Anvil! The Story of Anvil”, a documentary produced by a former roadie that gave the band more notoriety and fame that […]
May 20, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: AC/DC, Live At River Plate • 0 Comments
AC/DC – Live At River Plate DVD Turns out that AC/DC really are like a real life can of nitrous oxide. Like a Heavy Metal can of whippits that you suck in the air from the can and watch the world become hysterical — I can’t make an easier comparison. For a band that has […]
May 19, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Testament • 0 Comments
San Francisco Bay Area metal veterans TESTAMENT are currently writing material for the follow-up to 2008’s “The Formation Of Damnation” for a tentative late 2011/early 2012 release. The new CD will be recorded this summer with British producer Andy Sneap, who has previously worked with MEGADETH, ARCH ENEMY, NEVERMORE, EXODUS and MACHINE HEAD, among others. […]
Iron Maiden – From Fear To Eternity
May 25, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: From Fear To Eternity, Iron Maiden • 0 Comments
Iron Maiden – ‘From Fear To Eternity – The Best Of 1990 – 2010’, 2011 LP We shall go to the end. We shall fight in France We shall fight over the seas and oceans. We shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island whatever the cost […]