June 8, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Heavy Metal Reviews, Human Mastication, Salt The Wound, Sapremia • 0 Comments
Salt The Wound – ‘Kill The Crown’ 2011 A satisfying, well-produced Death Metal listen. S.T.W. can compete with any band on the Death Metal horizon. Kill The Crown is Salt The Wound‘s third LP. I personally prefer this young band over Children Of Bodom, As I Lay Dying, Job For A Cowboy, Viral Load, Gojira […]
June 7, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Iron Dawn, Marduk • 0 Comments
Marduk – ‘Iron Dawn’ 2011 EP The most blasphemous band on planet Earth continues to shock and offend. Only this time around the Swedish Black Metal institution known as Marduk have gone back to the illustrious topic of war. The last album ‘Wormwood‘ dealt with the nothingness void of death that the Swedes believe on. […]
June 6, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Hate Eternal, Phoenix Amongst The Ashes • 0 Comments
Hate Eternal – ‘Phoenix Amongst The Ashes’, 2011 LP Hatred leads to vengeful acts. Hatred is part and parcel to jealousy, rage, and passionate hate. Hatred hardens one’s heart and inevitablty, if not right away, hatred will turn doubly back on the one hating. Hatred leads to disease and a pessimistic view of one’s day […]
June 3, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: An Ending In Fire, Lost classics, Order From Chaos • 0 Comments
Order From Chaos – ‘An Ending In Fire’ – 1998 LP Order From Chaos existed for their whole shelf life on the tiny American record label, Wild Rags Records. The band began life as a brainier, brawnier breed of Black Metal that verged on what would one day become War Metal. I am not talking […]
June 3, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Setherial, Treason • 0 Comments
Setherial – ‘Treason’ 2011 7″-inch 2-song vinyl single ‘For Dem Mitt Blod‘ which was released in 1995 as a 2-song EP limited to 1000 copies has finally been trumped as Setherial make infamous history again with ‘Treason‘, all these years and 6 full-length studio albums later. ‘Treason‘ is another infernal beaut’. This latest 2-song EP […]
June 1, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: W4: The Green Album, Woods Of Ypres • 0 Comments
Woods Of Ypres – ‘W4: The Green Album’ Here is a band that you can cause you to mispronounce their name like you may already do with Celtic Frost, Children Of Bodom, VoiVod and others. ‘Wet Leather‘ – like the haunting neo-bardic Darkwoods My Betrothed or even Dark Throne‘s Frenriz‘ side-project Isengard. Though Woods Of […]
May 31, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Blue Dawn • 0 Comments
Blue Dawn – ‘Blue Dawn’ 2011 LP, Black Widow Records One listen is all that it will take for you to realize that ‘Shattered Illusions‘ is a raging hotbed of raucous energy. The haunting melodies that are the brainshake of lead singer, Monica Santos who comes makes her presence known come chorus time. Her shocking […]
May 27, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: By The Hands Of The Devil, Satan's Host • 0 Comments
Satan’s Host – ‘By The Hands Of The Devil’ 2011 LP Looking for all intents and purposes like an Impaled Nazarene album cover, at least to my trained Metal Underground eyes, comes Satan’s Host a-stridin’ with it’s newest infernal collection. Satan’s Host now should take front and center as there is a void that needs […]
May 25, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: From Fear To Eternity, Iron Maiden • 0 Comments
Iron Maiden – ‘From Fear To Eternity – The Best Of 1990 – 2010’, 2011 LP We shall go to the end. We shall fight in France We shall fight over the seas and oceans. We shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island whatever the cost […]
Death Scream Presents: Lost Classics – Raging Death
June 9, 2011 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Raging Death • 0 Comments
‘Raging Death’ 1987 compilation LP, Godly Records Godly Records is a label that was founded by the scribes, Borivoj Krgin and Marty Eger who brought you the fanzine Violent Noize. One of the bands featured on this album, Executioner, had just changed their name to Xecutioner. When this album hit the market for mass Heavy […]