March 8, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Speed Metal Hell III • 0 Comments
Speed Metal Hell III – compilation LP (New Renaissance- NRR 29) Here is an excellent choice of bands. Papsmear starts with “Die Killing”, the unbelievable cut from the band’s demo tape “Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas”. Wehrmacht speeds things up further, making things get even better. By Necropolis the Bathory/Celtic Frost/Death presences start to […]
March 8, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Morbid Visions, Sepultura • 0 Comments
Sepultura- “Morbid Visions” LP- 1986 (Cogumelo Records) So what do we have here?: 30 out of 100 in Metal Forces magazine. Bull crap! Sepultura are Gods who have made their official appearance in Death Scream. Sepultura are the mighty Brazilian Gods who combine talent with thrash and end up with death metal that makes Dark […]
March 8, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Thrash Metal Attack • 0 Comments
Thrash Metal Attack – Compilation LP (New Renaissance- NRR27) This record took well over a year to come out due to legal hassles with the bankruptcy of the original distributor, Greenworld, allowing bands on this LP to come out with their debut discs, beforehand. Bands like Post Mortem, Bloodfeast, Wehrmacht, Anvil Bitch, and Necrophagia(Ohio), all […]
March 8, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Bloody Vengeance, Vulcano • 0 Comments
Vulcano – “Bloody Vengeance” LP Rock Brigade Records Z You can tell at first glance what this record is like exactly. It’s ‘vengeful’ and it sure as hell is ‘bloody’ also. These fancy adjectives describe one of the world’s few totally brutal death-metal bands. Vulcano join Sepultura, Death, Slaughter, Messiah, Excruciation,(early) Possessed, Master/Death Strike and […]
March 7, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Candlemass, Tales Of Creation • 0 Comments
Candlemass – “Tales Of Creation” 1990 LP (Enigma/Metal Blade Records) The Number one band of the 70’s for must of us hard rockers/heavy metallers is Black Sabbath. The Number one band of the 80’s with a Sabs-like presence is doom metallers Candlemass. Candlemass were formerly monickered Nemesis, in a quite different incarnation, making one EP […]
March 7, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: E-X-E, Stricken By Might • 0 Comments
E-X-E – “Stricken By Might” LP (Shatter Records PAL- 1231) What is this? A “real” thrash-metal band from New York, on vinyl, no less? Well the first two songs “Slaughter Disorder” and “Stricken By Might” sound damn authentic enough. But as of “Autopsy” it becomes increasingly clear to me that E-X-E is one of those […]
March 7, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Soothsayer • 0 Comments
Soothsayer – October 1986 demo Karrion, Armoros, Genocide Inc., Mal Havoc, Beyond, Aggression, Lethal Presence, Self-Destruct, Infernal Majesty, Annihilator and Soothsayer. Just a sample of bands for you out of the Great White North/Canada. The bands that I have listed represent the new blood injected into the veins of Canada’s thrash metal scene. The icy […]
March 6, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Napalm Death, Scum, Shark Attack, Wehrmacht • 0 Comments
Napalm Death- “Scum”LP (Earache Records- Mosh 3) vs. Wehrmacht- “Shark Attack”LP (New Renaissance Recs-NRR 23) Here is the battlefield: On one side we have that fun war machine known as Wehrmacht and grinning maniacally at the opposite end we have Napalm death (and talking up a storm of hodge-podge). The year: 1987. Napalm Death: The […]
March 6, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Testament, The Legacy • 0 Comments
Testament – The Legacy LP – 1987 I want everyone to know that I’ve always felt the ‘Bay Area’/California, in general, to be inferior to the thrashing going on in Germany, Brazil, Denmark, etc., despite the seemingly endless number of bands and success stories (Metallica, Possessed, Exodus, Megadeth…). I guess it’s because I am from […]
Fast Forward To Hell – Compilation LP
March 8, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Fast Forward To Hell • 0 Comments
“Fast Forward To Hell”- compilation LP (metalworks- V.O.V. 664) This is the 1st release from a new label out of England. This is the 2nd brand- new record company, dealing exclusively with thrash metal, out of England. (The other is Chain Reaction Records). Judging by their first batch of releases, this record company is trying […]
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