October 4, 2016 by Rich Castle • Reviews • Tags: Heavy Metal, Opeth, Sorceress • 0 Comments
There are just some bands that can’t and shouldn’t try to NOT be so Metallic, (as in Heavy Metal), as they once were so ably. Opeth are an aggressive beast and function best as such. Compare “Sorceress”, the title track, from the new Opeth opus — “Sorceress” — to “In Mist She Was Standing” (from […]
October 4, 2016 by Rich Castle • Reviews • Tags: Germany, Heavy Metal, Prison of Pain • 0 Comments
A huge dollop of Grooving Southern Heavy Metal from the Rhineland! Why not. Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, two years ago, is when this quintet first congealed. They are lead in battle by the chrome-domed Pete Stone, who muscularly propels the band. “The Witch”, as the song is called, which is seasonally apt both for Oktoberfest and Halloween, […]
September 22, 2016 by admin • Heavy Metal Interviews • Tags: Bryan Patrick, Heavy Metal, Manilla Road, Singing Secrets • 0 Comments
There is not much available for budding singers — much less (powerful) HEAVY METAL — as far as guide/learning books in Barnes & Noble or articles in magazines and online. So as one lead singer to another. Here goes: 1. Bryan, I have felt your presence and power of your vokills in the club Saint […]
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: 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 […]
January 3, 2015 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews • Tags: #10, All Time, Best, Guitarists, Heavy Metal, NOCTURNO CULTO, Reviews, Top 10 • 1 Comment
Fenriz may hog the spotlight within Norway’s supremely talented duo, as the man responsible for the “battery” — but let us not forget Nocturno Culto. His GIFT OF GODS mini-LP came a-clanging to spotlight his immense talent. Unsung guitar heros like Piggy of VOI VOD (RIP) deserve their due. I am giving props to this […]
January 3, 2015 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews • Tags: #9, All Time, Best, Guitarists, Heavy Metal, JEFF HANNEMAN, KERRY KING, Reviews, Top 10 • 0 Comments
The world witnessed one of the most coordinated musical maelstroms when SLAYER unsheathed album after album, starting in 1983 with “Show No Mercy”. “Hell Awaits” followed in 1985 with a dazzling lead-in EP before it. All a mere prelude for the din of “Reign In Blood” (LP in 1986). “South Of Heaven” in 1988 and […]
January 3, 2015 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews • Tags: #8, All Time, Best, Guitarists, Heavy Metal, JOHNNY RAMONE, Reviews, Top 10 • 0 Comments
THE RAMONES. If you any question about the Heavy Metalness of this inclusion please play the “Rocket To Russia” album or “Road To Ruin” LP by THE RAMONES. They would pin your frame to the back wall when they strutted into a club. Manhattan, New York City was home turf to the band that brought […]
January 3, 2015 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews • Tags: #7, All Time, Best, EDDIE VAN HALEN, Guitarists, Heavy Metal, RANDY RHOADS, Reviews, Top 10 • 1 Comment
EDDIE VAN HALEN — tie with RANDY RHOADS – RIP, dead in a plane crash. I can’t talk about him too much but please what the boy did on the first two Ozzy Osbourne solo albums was a stunning display of chops to spare. Album: OZZY – “Diary Of A Madman” — 2nd solo album […]
Iron Curtain – Into The Fire
October 5, 2016 by Rich Castle • Reviews • Tags: Heavy Metal, Into The Fire, Iron Curtain • 0 Comments
Iron Curtain have thrust out of the gate with this new raging pure Heavy Metal number on Pure Steel Records. A combination of Loudness, early Helloween, and prime Rainbow, “Into The Fire” is a towering tumultuous, turbo-charged attack on the senses. The lead guitar work burns with intensity and sparkles with perfection. Taken from the […]
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