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 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 18, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Cough, The Wounded Kings • 0 Comments
Cough/The Wounded Kings – ‘An Introduction To the Black Arts’ 2010 LP, Forcefield Recs. Cough – ‘Ritual Abuse’ 2010 LP, Forcefield Recs. Not since Candlemass wowed this doomed planet with their ‘Epicus Doomicus Metalicus‘ opus has there ever been a band that has dug a whole so deep in the trenches to deliver an album […]
May 13, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Argus, Boldly Stride The Doomed • 0 Comments
Argus – ‘Boldly Stride The Doomed’ 2011 LP, Cruz Del Sur Music Argus, who are a twin guitar-driven, Doom-speckled Heavy Metal band from Pennsylvania released their self-titled album ‘Argus‘ in 2009 on Shadow Kingdom Records. The band feature former Penance vocalist Butch Balich who has a totally Metal, booming voice. Argus, as a whole, could […]
May 12, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Moving Pictures, Rush • 0 Comments
Rush – ‘Moving Pictures’ 1981 LP – 2011 re-release in 5.1 Surround Sound 30 years ago the 8th studio album ‘Moving Pictures‘ by the Canadian Prog Metal/Rock band, now superstars, Rush was released. It signified a coming of age for this prolific, immensely talented trio. The success of the previous year’s album, ‘Permanent Waves‘, catapulted […]
May 11, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: 777: Sect(s), Blut Aus Nord • 0 Comments
Blut Aus Nord – ‘777: Sect(s)’, Debemur Morti Productions There is always something about the French language that leaves me guessing. Especially as concerns Extreme Metal. The band Misanthrope, from France, raise the most question marks in my head. One only has to look at the Frenchmen superstars that is Canada’s Rush, as concerns their […]
May 10, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Last Rites, Pentagram • 0 Comments
Pentagram – ‘Last Rites’ 2011 LP Only the best of the best bands in the world can persevere and last 30-40 years, irrespective of who comes and goes as regards band members. Not to mention having to flit from new band name to new musical style; being solid as a rock. The world, at large, […]
May 9, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Opus Mortis VIII, Vomitory • 0 Comments
Vomitory – ‘Opus Mortis VIII’, Metal Blade Records For pure Death Metal escapism; and fun is what this music is supposed to be about sometimes, you can’t do better than the morgue clangor that Vomitory from Sweden is making these days. Woohharrggh! Ya. You better believe it. Vomitory are turned up to the max on […]
May 6, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Anvil, Juggernaut Of Justice • 3 Comments
Anvil – ‘Juggernaut Of Justice’ – 2011 LP, The End The title track ‘Juggernaut Of Justice‘ is an amazingly simple tune that you will be humming while you find yourself stuck in traffic or in a long elevator ride. Bang thy head. Because Anvil is back. Anvil‘s penchant for seamlessly melding Hard Rock and Heavy […]
Autopsy – Macabre Eternal
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‘, […]