April 6, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Ecstasies Over Dreaming Lady, My Infinite Kingdom • 0 Comments
My Infinite Kingdom – ‘Ecstasies Over Dreaming Lady’ (No Colours Records) A MID 1990’s cult of darkness Classic album One of the heaviest bands ever that has darkly graced the underground with an album is M.I.K. Ac/Dc and Mercyful Fate meets Burzum or Abigor. M.I.K. have the true feel of what he underground should feel […]
March 31, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Lemmy, Motorhead, The World Is Yours • 0 Comments
Motorhead – ‘The World Is Yours’ – Motorhead Music/EMI Music Services ‘Born To Lose’ is the lead-off track for this umpteenth Motorhead album. The living legend Lemmy on lead vocals and bass guitar, who also pens the lyrics, sings ‘deaf to all the truth for sure’, letting all of us know that he just don’t […]
March 31, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Forevermore, Whitesnake • 0 Comments
Whitesnake – ‘Forevermore’ The raspy vocals that are featured on this album seem to be coming at ya from a man who has sung every day of his life and is telling you his story. Like stepping out on a cool, crisp April morning and sensing the first twinges of the spring season ahead, ‘Forevermore’ […]
March 31, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Blessed By A Burden, Testament • 0 Comments
Testament – ‘Blessed By A Burden’ – 2011 EP They’re back. On hiatus since 1999 without any new studio material, Testament have returned in 2011 with a four song EP you can buy on iTunes. The folks that bought ‘The Gathering’ LP twelve years ago may not be who buys the new one. Testament were […]
March 31, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Belphegor, Blood Magick Necromance • 0 Comments
Belphegor – ‘Blood Magick Necromance’ 2011 LP Hail Belphegor! Gone are the days of 2009, on ‘Walpurgis Rites- Hexenwahn’, when I’d rather listen to Nifelheim and Dark Throne than listen to Belphegor’s latest racket, sounding like rusty wire electrocuted in a vat of ice water. I couldn’t listen to their Christ scraping metal. 2006 was […]
March 21, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Ecstasy & Danger, Ostrogoth • 0 Comments
Ostrogoth – ‘Ecstasy & Danger’- 1984 LP – (Mausolem Records) Ostrogoth pulled one of the greatest hoaxes in heavy metal history with their ‘Ecstasy & Danger’ album, ripping off the Scorpions. A crime of high treason for most bands that would dare to have an album cover like the one on ‘E & D’; but […]
March 20, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: No Anesthesia, Witchtrap • 0 Comments
Witchtrap – ‘No Anesthesia’ – 2006 LP (Dirty Sound Records) If you are looking for authentic thrash, speed, death, black metal bands then Witchtrap should catch your fancy. Those who think Exodus have no equals as regards their ‘Bonded By Blood’ debut LP opus have never heard Colombia, South America’s Witchtrap and their 2006 LP, […]
March 20, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Cross, Metal From Above • 0 Comments
Cross – “Metal From Above”- 1987 LP (Steel Legacy Records) In our youth so many of us are rebellious, anxious souls lacking respect, experience and wisdom. Reading the Word of God is not a fun thing to do. With that introduction I introduce you to the White Metal, Christian Heavy Metal that Cross plays on […]
March 20, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Hobbs' Angel Of Death • 0 Comments
Hobbs’ Angel Of Death – “Hobbs’ Angel Of Death” 1988 LP The great Metal Forces magazine compilation “Scream Your Brains Out” introduced many to Hobbs’ Angel Of Death. Peter Hobbs was very active in the tape trading scene that was the way bands/mags/fans/& ‘zines went about getting exposure. The internet hadn’t been invented yet and […]
Beherit – Engram
April 7, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Beherit, Engram • 0 Comments
Beherit – ‘Engram’ 2009 LP Beherit own the distinction of being the weirdest Black Metal band to not enter through the narrow gate of this world. Beherit started their bizarre sound experimentation early on in their career back in the 1990’s. Whole pieces of music came out with the sonority of being contrived and plotted, […]
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