December 8, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Jorn Lande, Kiss, Progressive Metal, Radio, Running Wild • 0 Comments
1. Death. FM: NECROPHOBIC — ‘Rimthurson”, title track from the Swedish Blackened Death veterans’ 2006 LP. Necrophobic have stepped up their game from earlier works mired in, that bit touch too much of, thickened darkness. Yet Necrophobic were always great. They set out originally to appeal completely to an Underground hardcore Blackened Death Metal […]
December 6, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: AC/DC, Heavy Metal Reviews, Rock Or Bust • 0 Comments
AC/DC: “Rock Or Bust” — Deathscream.net Spotlights the Aussie Superband “Rock Or Bust” is AC/DC’s late 2014, new powerhouse studio album. This is the kick in the arse that Metal/Hard Rock/Classic Rock/and-whatever-else, needed. 2015 is off and running. I have talked with enough people, and seen and heard, quite enough to know that 2015 […]
December 3, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Extreme Metal, Heavy Metal Reviews, Metal Evolution, The Lost Episode • 0 Comments
The Metal Evolution series shows the evolution of Heavy Metal. The series is based on a premise that dissects the entire Heavy Metal genre, at least according to the producers, into 26 sub-genres. This lost segment is on YouTube. This lost segment is called Extreme Metal. The lost segment, “released to crowdsourcing contributions”, as Wikipedia states, […]
December 3, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Heavy Metal Reviews, Midnight Priest, Midnight Steel • 0 Comments
Midnight Priest‘s Lex Thunder is going to shock the crap out of you. Have you viewed their “Hellbreaker” video on YouTube, (check out the video at the bottom of this page) yet, from the band’s 2nd LP “Midnight Steel”? The lead vocalist impresses mightily, with a voice that begins the song like it’s Witchfinder General. […]
November 30, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Belphegor, Conjuring The Dead, Heavy Metal Reviews • 0 Comments
The sounds of suffering and the glory of vampyric horror are all part and parcel to the experience of Death Metal/Black Metal outfit, Belphegor. Just the mere thought of Jesus Christ is repulsive to these guys. They have made a career out of it. Some songs like “Lucifer, Take Her” on the new LP don’t […]
November 30, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Ellen, Heavy Metal Reviews, interview, JIMMY PAGE, LED ZEPPELIN • 0 Comments
“It’s been a long time since I rock and rolled It’s been a long time since I did the Stroll Ooh, let me get it back, let me get it back Let me get it back, baby, where I come from It’s been a long time, been a long time Been a long lonely, lonely, […]
November 30, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Graveland, Heavy Metal Reviews, Thunderbolts of the Gods • 0 Comments
Celebrating 20 years of recorded history, this year of 2014, Rob Darken — the mainframe focus of Graveland — has taken the band exactly where it seemed they were headed. The majestic strains of Quorthon that there is to be no more recordings by (RIP), has had the Q-throne resuscitated by the Polish juggernaut that […]
November 23, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Heavy Metal Reviews, Mortuary Drape, Spiritual Independence • 0 Comments
Mortuary Drape are a band from Italy that pretends reality is one long Halloween. Yet there is nothing goofy at all about them. Equal parts Black and equal parts Death and yet at the point where being together 27 years has made them now, after a 10 year absence, an amazing band that deserves your […]
November 23, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Agonia Records, Heavy Metal Reviews, Untrodden Corridors Of Hades, Varathron • 0 Comments
The scene in Greece for Black Metal is prefaced by these bands, all who have passed into legend: Rotting Christ, Septic Flesh, Thou Art Lord, Necromantia, Nightfall and Varathron. The ’90’s brought this bunch into sharp focus. They each were quite different, with separate endearing qualities to each, yet undeniably with a feel for the […]
Acranius — “Dishonor” 2014 LP (Rising Nemesis Records)
December 16, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Acranius, Blood, brutality, Coprocephalic, Fleshcrawll, Ingested, MORGOTH, SUFFOCATION • 0 Comments
The Brutal Death Metal of Acranius, from Germany — Rostock, Mecklenburg–Vorpommern, is back! Following up, “When Mutilation Becomes Homicidal”, from 2013, “Dishonor” is the sophomore full-length studio LP from these Deathsters, who formed in 2009. The artwork by Daemorph Evil Art is suitable for the genre, and actually quite stunning. Coprocephalic, Ingested, Epicardiectomy, and […]
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