May 10, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews 0 Comments
The Ding Dong Lounge on April 26th the RR website schedule says. Yeah. Rick Rocker is playing there. And he’s a ding dong, big-time. Most people who are musicians and are not morbidly obese can fit through doorways. Then there are those musicians who are terminally anorexic and can’t fit through doorways. Rick Rocker is […]
May 7, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews 0 Comments
SCi FI DEATH METAL TO Make Richard Riddick Proud. Australia. Now here’s a country with an interesting scene. HOBBS’ANGEL OF DEATH is the father of Death Metal down there. MORTAL SIN had a heck of a tuneful thrash band. Scrolls of the Megilloth, defined the true meaning of Christian Australian Death Metal with Mortification, who […]
May 4, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews 0 Comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VoFmCocTs0 1989/1990: Getting to be mature men, well and truly in their middle thirties , RUSH decided on a poppy direction. Man, I loved it! It turned out to be the album “Presto”, released in 1989. The tour was far briefer than had been the case for RUSH in the past, thankfully shorter in comparison by past […]
May 3, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews 0 Comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-7lQwmN9DI By the time that studio album #7 for RUSH, “Permanent Waves” rolled around, all the drama, talent and versatility to make albums of varying moods and styles had combined with the sheer ferocity of getting the job done.1974’s “RUSH” and “2112” versus “A Farewell To Kings” and “Permanent Waves” would set the well-lighted path/(stage) towards the more […]
May 2, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews 0 Comments
Nucleator are going to surprise a lot of people. Their 44 minute debut album is firing on all cylinders, with the 2009 “Nuclear War” EP making for a must-get debut, diving board to show off their teutonic Death Metal hipness — and prepare the world for this “unknown masterpiece” as a Metal Archives website reviewer points out […]
April 28, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: 1978, Cobo Hall, December 2nd, Detroit, Gypsy Eye, Michigan, Oak Oppression, Rush, Tour Of The Hemispheres • 0 Comments
“Good evening mein fronds…” — intoned as Geddy inserts this phrase after “Anthem” piledrives its way to the front of the queue to begin this Tour Of The Hemispheres stopover in Detroit, Michigan USA. One of their most grueling tours, RUSH the masters of grueling tours having already done their dreaded “Down The Tubes Tour” for the […]
April 28, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Belana Chasmata, Eparistera Daimones, TRIPTYKON • 0 Comments
“Eparistera Daimones” — 2010 to be exact — was when we last left the FROSTy Tom Warrior, then committing to a full-length of up-to-date mature Triptykon tunes walking a vicious updated Celtic Frost path. There seemed to be an unconscious effort on Tom Warrior’s part to overdo the heaviness factor. Tom? No-one can be heavier. Some […]
September 24, 2013 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: gig, Mark Gallagher, performance, Raven, show, tour • 1 Comment
CHECK OUT THE EXCLUSIVE DEATH SCREAM INTERVIEWS WITH JOE HASSELVANDER AND JOHN GALLAGHER OF RAVEN Dilemma: RAVEN play this concert with admittedly just slightly ill guitarist Mark Gallagher. Tour stop: RAVEN – September 18th 2013 @ St Vitus venue, @ Manhattan Ave. and cross street, Clay; the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, New York City. Where […]
September 15, 2013 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: death metal, Empires Of Great Enslavement, heavey metal, review, Vomitous • 0 Comments
Brutal Death Metal from Sweden. With an album cover depicting a landscape that fictional, tough guy/Sci-fi movie character Richard B. Riddick might be right at home on, comes Vomitous with another vicious, ’bout quarter of an hour, bout of ear bullying. Yet the production quality is up to snuff, and the material slams to make […]
MUST-READ: KJA/RUSH CLOCKWORK ANGELS COMIC BOOKS REVIEW
May 25, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews 0 Comments
The strong-souled tightrope walking vixen, beguiling with her winged presence is worth the price of admission alone for April 2014’s second issue (of six) for CLOCKWORK ANGELS. The ego-less, ex-apple orchard manager’s new and forever girl is featured! Francesca flies down and gives the smitten young man, Owen Hardy, a rose he treasures. In fell swoop […]
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