September 23, 2016 by Rich Castle • Reviews • Tags: Autopsy, CORONER • 0 Comments
Coroner returns. To whet our whistles we have a brand spanking new collection called “Autopsy”. How could a band that started their career with Tom G. Warrior of Celtic Frost/now-Triptykon, on vocals — on the band’s “Death Cult” demo — not be immortal enough to return! If you are a huge Death and Thrash Metal […]
September 23, 2016 by Rich Castle • Reviews • Tags: The Great Filter, To Whom It May • 0 Comments
With their imminent appearance at the Houston Open Air festival, To Whom It May will storm the stage with their brand of propulsive and throbbing heavy rock. Measured and tight, To Whom It May have honed their craft to a tee. They deserve to share the stage with headliners: Avenged Sevenfold, Deftones, Slayer and Alice […]
September 23, 2016 by Rich Castle • Reviews • Tags: Germany, Running Wild, Sodom • 0 Comments
Released for September 2016 by RockHard magazine, this split 7-inch EP is sure to be a riot with Teutonic Thrash fans long-in-the-tooth. Honestly, if fans are like I am, they thrill when the mighty juggernaut that is Germany’s Sodom release anything! “Fearlessly we stand!”: Tom Angelripper tears out some of the best words to a […]
September 23, 2016 by Rich Castle • Reviews • Tags: Aaron Shust, Christian • 0 Comments
The mighty pure Christian rock force / the man, Aaron Shust, who has penned “My God, My Savior” and “To God Alone”, has new material for his fans. A force in the Christian Rock scene for over a decade, Aaron Shust is more than a singer/songwriter. For fans of acts as diverse as Petra to […]
September 22, 2016 by Rich Castle • Reviews • Tags: Christian, Gospel, Gregory Luster, Ice, North Carolina, Rap, Salisbury • 0 Comments
Christian Gospel music from Salisbury, North Carolina, Gregory is a smooth golden-voiced singer who will simply mesmerize you with his interesting palette of new music. Eddy Grant’s “Electric Avenue” is a good reference point for those unacquainted with the myriad talent that is Mr. Luster. If there is a man who feels as blessed as […]
September 22, 2016 by Rich Castle • Reviews • Tags: aggro-doom, Fires Within Fires, Heavy Metal, Metal Sludge, Neurosis • 0 Comments
We are onto to a winner here. Neurosis has been around long enough to have gotten their creative ya-yas out long ago. A creative superforce, Neurosis has been churning out their brand of aggro-doom for years; long enough to have ceased needing to weird out to satisfy themselves and their audience. Now Neurosis are a […]
September 22, 2016 by Rich Castle • Reviews • Tags: Jenny & The Generators, Jenny Amlen, New York City, Stories To Tell • 0 Comments
A sultry and ageless songstress, Jenny & The Generators can pack a house, and bring it down at that. The former Heavy Metal/Hard Rock frontwoman for New York City’s own Cold Sweat in the century gone by; though this time Jenny has teamed up with her brother David Amlen and collaborated to make a shimmering […]
September 22, 2016 by Rich Castle • Reviews • Tags: Belgium, Heavy Metal, Oathbreaker, Rheia • 0 Comments
The proud continent of Europe musically has seen fit to hit us hard with a new assemblage of tunes from Oathbreaker. Oathbreaker hail from Belgium and spit melancholy and intricate Heavy Metal dirges out like they have originated from Hell’s own hearth. Blistering is the name of the game with these blokes. “Rheia” features the […]
September 22, 2016 by Rich Castle • Reviews • Tags: Against Human Manipulation, death metal, Mental Apraxia • 0 Comments
Colombia strikes hard with a new and totally disgusting release from the Death Metal titans, Mental Apraxia. Coyote Records’ finest, certainly, Mental Apraxia bust out this torrid second full-length affair with all the poise and skillful assertion as Jack The Ripper, himself. For those who revel in primitive metal butchery, Mental Apraxia stand somewhere in […]
Matt Kivel – Fires On The Plain
September 23, 2016 by Rich Castle • Reviews • Tags: Fires On The Plain, Matt Kivel • 0 Comments
Matt Kivel cuts a swath figure, with his cowboy hat and sly and quizzical countenance. To be released on Driftless Recordings on October 7th, 2016 will be Mr. Kivel front-on-center on vocals, acoustic guitar and electric guitar. Very impressive is “Permanence” featuring Robin Pecknold (Fleet Foxes) on YouTube. It is a music video featuring a […]
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