May 4, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Roby Tav, The Secret Wood Tales, Tiziana Radis • 0 Comments
The Secret Wood Tales – Roby Tav and Tiziana Radis 2010 LP, Black Widow Records The Secret Wood Tales R T T R is how the band name is spelled out on the back cover, as I am writing this out to give you some idea of the band’s runic sensibilities. If you like or […]
May 3, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Temple des Damnations, Viral Encephalitis • 0 Comments
Viral Encephalitis – ‘Temple des Damnations’ 2011 LP The cheerily monickered Viral Encephalitis are the latest entry for Grindcore, Grindgore or just plain Death Metal. Canada, where this band with one album under their rancid belts come from, have a 2010 album entitled ‘Carcass De Guerre‘. Canada has been host to some of the best […]
May 2, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Abysmal Grief, Misfortune • 0 Comments
Abysmal Grief – ‘Misfortune’ 2009 LP, Black Widow Records Just this month, April 2011, I received this stylish fold-out digi-pack CD- cat # 125-2, from the good guys over at Black Widow Records of Italy. ‘Misfortune‘ came out November 2nd, 2009. Featuring 6 brand new songs, ‘Misfortune‘ serves as the second full-length studio disc from […]
April 29, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Let It Die, Ozzy Osbourne • 0 Comments
Ozzy Osbourne – ‘Let It Die’ 2011 single Jet Records in 1980 released ‘Ozzy Osbourne – Blizzard Of Ozz‘; the single ‘Crazy Train‘ backed with ‘You Looking At Me Looking At You‘, catalog # JET 197. A year later, in 1981, with CBS onboard ‘Steal Away (The Night)‘ became the B-side to the ‘Crazy Train‘ […]
April 28, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Ashes, Necronoclast • 0 Comments
Necronoclast – ‘Ashes’ 2011 Dwelling in the land of the abstract equations, for lyrical content, is Scotland’s own Necronoclast. The point of reckoning for Necronoclast is their unholy creation in 2003; the year the band was formed. Four full-length albums have already been incurred by this face-erasingly heavy Black Metal band. They are as follows: […]
April 27, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: 2011 Sampler, Relapse Records • 0 Comments
Relapse Records – 2011 Sampler Over 25 tracks by over 25 different artists from the label that formed with a mission. In the early 1990s, it was high time for an underground record label to scour the underground in a more fan angled, supportive way. To explore and incorporate more hardcore and electronic parameters and […]
April 26, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Obscura, Omnivium • 0 Comments
Obscura – ‘Omnivium’ 2011 LP, Relapse Records Does Obscura beat out my fave crazy legs Death Metal band, Origin? Not exactly. Origin tear it up in the technically gifted land of Death far beyond the pack, I feel. A better question might be this: So this is the band that everyone has been seeing everywhere, […]
April 24, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Hour Of 13, The Ritualist • 0 Comments
Hour Of 13 – ‘The Ritualist’2011 LP, Earache Records I love the Ozzy-fronted Black Sabbath of yore but unlike some I am not willing to close my eyes and my ears and pretend that every time I hear a doom riddled Heavy Metal number that it is the return of the fearsome foursome from cloudy […]
April 22, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Septic Flesh, The Great Mass • 0 Comments
Septic Flesh – ‘The Great Mass’, Season Of Mist Released on April 18th, the biblical hah-bloobbah that grip’s Grecian Gothic meanderers like Septic Flesh continues has it has unabated since the last decade of the last century. Bands from Greece like Septic Flesh don’t so much as give the horned one worship as much as […]
Acrassicauda – Only The Dead See The End Of War
May 5, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Acrassicauda, Only The Dead See The End Of War • 0 Comments
Acrassicauda – ‘Only The Dead See The End Of War’ 2010 EP, Vice Do you know of this band from Iraq who have finally made their long awaited record debut 10 years on from their beginnings in war torn Baghdad, Iraq, named Acrassicauda? No? Well, you are missing out on the heaviest, newest, best heavy […]