September 11, 2013 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: BILL WARD, Black Sabbath, Doom, Doom Metal, Heavy Metal, Ozzy Osbourne, Terrence Geezer Butler, The Legacy, TONY IOMMI • 0 Comments
A quick look at Tony Iommi and Black Sabbath’s legacy: Heavy Metal’s true progenitors have created a monster! Sometimes someone is so great we wish to bring to fruition and duplicate what they have done; emulating them – maybe even perhaps surpassing them. This is what is going on with the emergent subcategory in Heavy […]
September 8, 2013 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Anthems, Anthrax, heavey metal, metal, review, reviewed • 0 Comments
Any band in 2013 that uses the pentagram means they are worshipping the devil, or are just plain using the imagery to be very shocking. This is not 30 years ago when Motley Crue could ‘Shout At The Devil’ and Iron Maiden could proclaim via Vincent Price that ‘666 is a human number’ and call […]
August 28, 2013 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: 2012, CD, Clockwork Angels, LP, review, reviewed, Rush, studio • 0 Comments
RUSH – ‘Clockwork Angels’ – 2012 20th RUSH studio LP Progressive perfection in a 66:06 minutes/seconds multiple part song suite, concept album. And a novel goes with it, of the same name, coming out just months later written by the, also famous like RUSH is, author Kevin J. Anderson – a good friend of drummer […]
August 28, 2013 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Alex Lifeson, review, reviewed, Rush, Victor • 0 Comments
‘At The End’ is a bugout to listen to. I must hammer away at my readers to let it sink in as to just how weird this song is. So I intersperse this ‘Victor’ review once and for the last time with a blow-by-blow breakdown of the tune. One could picture Alex on the couch, […]
August 28, 2013 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Alex Lifeson, review, reviewed, Rush, Victor • 0 Comments
‘Victor’ is way long in the tooth to be reviewed. How many diehard RUSH fans have this album? To answer my own question: Not as many as I, certainly, would like to see. I know it’s the Geddy Lee solo album, “My Favorite Headache” that got most all the attention; seeing as it came out […]
August 27, 2013 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: reviewed, Rush, sankes & arrows • 0 Comments
Miscellanea Inc: Retrospectively speaking with 20/20 hindsight Here on Alex Lifeson’s birthday is a little time capsule. Join us as we turn the page…… This is the album that should be called the witche’s brew; the burning cauldron. The hodgepodge smorgasbord. There is ‘Far Cry’ that hammers itself into your skull. There is ‘Bravest Face’ […]
February 19, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Christian Mistress, Possession • 0 Comments
This review has been kicking my ass for weeks now. Not entirely unheard of, to be sure, but this time around it’s proved a pretty damnable little dilemma because I know exactly how I feel about this new Christian Mistress album. I love it. I love it to little bitty pieces. If I was a […]
February 19, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Seven Deadly, UFO • 0 Comments
I won’t take another opportunity to mention how underrated UFO is in the history of hard rock and how you should totally check them out, unless I do it in some sort of back-handed, surreptitious manner. Instead, I’ll just assume that you’re already aware of the fact that this band released some great music back […]
February 19, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Pallbearer, Sorrow and Extinction • 0 Comments
On the strength of a three-song demo from 2010, Little Rock, Arkansas’s Pallbearer quickly became one of the most talked-about names in metal’s catty, cantankerous underground. Fast-forward a year and a half or so, and Pallbearer’s debut full-length Sorrow and Extinction on new label home Profound Lore offers marble-chiseled proof that the demo was no […]
35 Secret Weapons the band, RUSH Have
September 12, 2013 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Heavy Metal, Rush, Secret Weapons • 0 Comments
1. RUSH – 1974’s Before & After 2. Fly By Night – 1975’s Rivendell 3. Caress Of Steel – 1975’s ‘The Fountain Of Lamneth 4. 2112 – 1976’s The Oracle 5. A Farewell To Kings – 1977’s A Farewell To Kings 6. Hemispheres – 1978’s Circumstances 7. Permanent Waves – 1980’s Entre Nous (translation from […]
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