January 20, 2015 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: A Broken Silence, Amon Amarth . Riverside, Black Forest, Hammerfall, Iced Earth, Lord Vader, Manowar, Marillion, Mark Gallagher, Raven, Rush • 0 Comments
I will now span the globe to find out what is on the good ol’ airwaves for January 20th, 2014 on this Tuesday morning. 1. Rush Radio — Rush 24/7 is played on this station. A live version of “The Camera Eye”. From the very-famous same album as “Limelight”, “Tom Sawyer” and “Vital Signs”. The […]
December 24, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Abbath, Dagbladet, Geeks, Immortal, KING DIAMOND, Metalheads, Norway • 0 Comments
The black-and-white face-painted Immortal have gotten very colorful of late. Abbath, 1/3 of the trio wants the band to himself and is going through courts to do it. The drama flaring around the Norwegian Black Metal band, sheds light on just why a special new deluxe re-edition of Immortal’s current-and-8th studio album, “All […]
December 23, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Leprous, Manilla Road, Obscura, Scorpions, UDO • 0 Comments
Tuesday EST USA 12/23/2015 update: 1. Scorpions — February 20th, 2015: They just couldn’t resist. How could the Scorpions quit on the cusp of a 50-year anniversary. Answer: They couldn’t. The Germanic quintet isn’t going to retire, just yet, after all. “Return To Forever”‘s cover art is sporting a suitably-fashioned Metal Scorpions’ crown. […]
December 19, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: AC/DC, Bon Jovi, Dark Tranquillity, Folk Jazz, metal, Radio, Rock, Tiamat, Tune-In, Voices of Destiny • 0 Comments
The Editor of Deathscream.net listens to the airwaves! 5:54pm EST USA start: 12/19/2014 — What is rockin’ and shakin’ the airwaves, right now?!? Let’s travel the world, and find out. 1. Russia: Radio Caprice Thrash Metal Infernal Majesty, “Night of the Living Dead” from “None Shall Defy” 1987 LP. One of the most ostentatious […]
December 2, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Heavy Metal News, Metal Singers • 0 Comments
Metal Singers in Bogota, Colombia, South America, as it is billed, will feature Udo Dirkschneider, Mike Viscera, Blaze Bayley and Tim “Ripper” Owens. These vocal legends, collectively, are most famously known for the following bands (in the order of the names above): ACCEPT/U.D.O./UDO, LOUDNESS/YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, IRON MAIDEN, and JUDAS PRIEST/ICED EARTH. This will surely be […]
November 23, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Birthday, brooklyn, Manilla Road • 0 Comments
The 2014 road to World Domination for the stalwart and stoked Manilla Road has seen the band go from tour stops starting July 3rd in Lima, Peru onward through Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Cyprus, Romania, England, Scotland, Malta, and finally, American shores, to ceaselessly lead up to this triumphant full stop in the […]
May 7, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News 0 Comments
Will the real Redeemer of Souls please step up? The “Plagues Of Babylon” artwork shown above the reverent ‘Priest’s new album’s artwork is all so much alike. It feels like we are living “Among The Living Dead” (the new Iced Earth song from it and a video, too). Judas Priest has unveiled the intense “Redeemer […]
May 2, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News 0 Comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o67HnxC4RTg – watch the new JUDAS PRIEST title-track from the upcoming “Redeemer Of Souls”! ROB HALFORD – ABOVE – SOME SKULLS ARE GONNA ROLL AS ROB HALFORD BREAKS OUT HIS SAVAGE FULL REGALIA FOR THE APOCALYPTIC YEAR OF 2014. METAL HAS RETURNED. JUDAS PRIEST ARE THE SIGN OF LEATHER AND VOLUME THAT SIGNALS THE RETURN! PRIEST! […]
September 18, 2013 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: brooklyn, gig, Heavy Metal, metal, NEW SONG live bootleg, NWOBHM, performance, Raven, Saint Vitus Bar, show, tour • 0 Comments
RAVEN Play Brooklyn, New York City – Wednesday, 9/18/2013 – Prelude To The Arrival onstage of the NWOBHM stalwarts. Wikipedia defines Raven, and rightfully – may I add – as an English heavy metal band associated with the New Wave of British Heavy metal movement. The band has been active as of 1974 with singles […]
Special editorial: Where does RUSH go now?
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 […]
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