March 17, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Day Of Reckoning, Destruction • 0 Comments
Destruction- “Day Of Reckoning”- 2011 LP (Nuclear Blast) Destruction, Kreator and Sodom. Schmeir, Mille Petrozza and Tom Angelripper are the mainman/mainstays of these German Death Metal warhorses that have been trudging along since the mid-1980’s. Hopping along like a real fun thrashterpiece is this instant classic from the above mentioned bass playing frontman Schmeir and […]
March 17, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Crowbar, Sever The Wicked Hand • 0 Comments
Crowbar- “Sever The Wicked Hand” 2011 Kirk Windstein is best known recently for his Down side project. But for underground metalheads we like him for what he’s done with Crowbar. And they are back. 2005’s “Lifesblood For The Downtrodden” may have seemed like Mardi Gras town’s lost rebel yell. Good sewer metal. Yes that old […]
March 17, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Manowar, Thunder In The Sky • 0 Comments
Manowar- “Thunder In The Sky” 2009 EP (Prelude to the “Hammer Of The Gods” full-length album) Manowar’s “Hammer Of The Gods” LP is going to be a smash when it comes out. The band will be using a new drummer. It is 2011, as I write, as we wait for a sign from these living […]
March 14, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Hellwitch, Omnipotent Convocation • 0 Comments
‘The best are back department’ of Death Scream presents the band that swallowed the thesaurus and spat it out into a blast furnace: Hellwitch. Take a look at the photo of Hellwitch. A picture is worth a thousand words, they say. Hellwitch is always worth the price of admission. And their latest LP, “Omnipotent Convocation” […]
March 14, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: No Time To Bleed, Suicide Silence, The Cleansing • 0 Comments
Suicide Silence – “No Time To Bleed” 2009 LP & “The Cleansing” 2007 LP Suicide Silence, out of sunny California: Getting 4 out of 5 stars for the online death metal masterpiece “No Time To Bleed- The Body Bag Edition” – Limited Edition version with a Bonus DVD on Century Media- 2010. Check this out, […]
March 11, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Dance Gavin Dance, Happiness, The Death Star • 0 Comments
Here is an open invitation to enjoy the music being made by today’s youth: Dance Gavin Dance‘s fun rockin’ tracks that are found on their “Happiness” 2009 album and their “The Death Star” 2008 album. “Tree Village”- Think Train’s “Calling All Angels” mixed with Foo Fighters- “Times Like These- era mixed in an upside-down blender […]
March 11, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Creatures, Motionless In White • 0 Comments
Many of the people who love heavy metal or punk or hardcore or death/black/thrash/speed extreme stuff are unabashedly coming out with their other likes in music. Whether that be Frank Sinatra or David Cassidy/The Partridge Family or The Runaways; or how about the band Bauhaus that one member of Motionless In White wears a T-shirt […]
March 11, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: New Metal Empire • 0 Comments
New Metal Empire from Munster, Indiana, caught my fancy with the band’s logo that spells out NME. Note: This is not NME that released the album “Unholy Death” back in the Mid-’80’s. That particular NME did also hail from the U.S.A. but the the mainman sicko from that outfit went to prison for butchering his […]
March 9, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Becoming The Archetype, Dichotomy • 0 Comments
Becoming The Archetype – “Dichotomy” 2008 LP & new 2011 single “Here at the end of the world / Planets fall & we are rising / Soul and sky are magnetizing / Here at the end of the world” Becoming The Archetype have a clumsy band name. Are they all taken? No. Another immediate corner […]
Benedictum – Dominion
March 18, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Benedictum, Dominion • 0 Comments
Benedictum- “Dominion” 2011 LP If Veronica Freeman looking for all the world to see like the lady in black wasn’t enough to get your blood pumping; with her band that she fronts – Benedictum breaking out in 2006 with the Black Sabbath smash-hit “Heaven And Hell” on their “Uncreation” disc, they have in early March, […]
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