January 3, 2015 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: #6, All Time, ANGUS YOUNG, Best, Guitarists, Heavy Metal, MALCOLM YOUNG, Top 10 • 1 Comment
Two heads are better than one. In bandspeak when there is a lead guitarist and a rhythm guitarist and they both smoke at their respective tasks; watch out! Hailing from down under, in Australia, their band AC/DC has been making albums for 40 years with the new video for “Play Ball” probably the last to […]
January 3, 2015 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: #5, All Time, Best, Guitarists, Heavy Metal, RITCHIE BLACKMORE, Top 10 • 1 Comment
When I play music with my pals, I always feel the beat of the street in me. What I mean is that musicians like Jimmy Page and Ritchie Blackmore (DEEP PURPLE, RAINBOW and BLACKMORE’S NIGHT) brought to me the feeling that I had kinship with them. Because they can and do play; so can I. […]
January 3, 2015 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: All Time, Best, Guitarists, Heavy Metal, JIMMY PAGE, Top 10 • 1 Comment
When one thinks of Jimmy Page and the band that ruled the Earth from 1969 till 1980, LED ZEPPELIN, they may think of “Stairway To Heaven” as it is the most well-known song ever to incorporate the style of Heavy Metal in it’s construct. Their debut album was to the year 1969 what RUSH would […]
January 3, 2015 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: #3, Alex Lifeson, All Time, Best, Guitarists, Heavy Metal, Top 10 • 1 Comment
Haven’t I written enough about Alex Lifeson, 1/3 of the Heavy Rocking Progstravanga band RUSH, without writing a book?!? Alex Lifeson may not be suitable on his own, as the album “Victor” he made in 1986 tried to make a lyrical subject statement about the dark side of Love. Victor is a weird album (Weird […]
January 3, 2015 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: #2, All Time, Best, Guitarists, Heavy Metal, TOM WARRIOR, TONY IOMMI, Top 10 • 1 Comment
TRIPTYKON (has fronted CELTIC FROST/HELLHAMMER/CORONER) – The Swiss master changed Heavy Metal forever in 1983/84 when the primal, honest superdoom-supercharged notes rang out on the “Apocalyptic Raids” record. It was followed by CELIC FROST’s amazing journey on “Morbid Tales”. Shortly after, Thrashmeisters CORONER’s “Death Cult” featured Warrior on vocals. It upped his profile. He helped […]
January 3, 2015 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: All Time, Best, Guitarists, Heavy Metal, Jimi Hendrix, Top 10 • 1 Comment
Already I can see the shouts of “no, no — Jimi wasn’t a Heavy Metal guitarist”. Oh yeah, just say that sentence again and listen to yourself. Jimi Hendrix played loud and distorted and the music of the JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE was something never heard before. Without Jimi Hendrix I would have been lost. I […]
January 3, 2015 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: All Time, Best, Guitarists, Heavy Metal, Introduction, Top 10 • 0 Comments
I don’t know how many of you have had a musical listening journey like I have had. I’ve been a guitar player since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I have tended to want to find the most progressive and/or the most heavy, most outrageous, music I could clamp my ears on. Getting the first […]
December 31, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: At The Gates, Best of 2014, Blastfest, death metal, Gothenburg, Grotesque, Heavy Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Sweden • 0 Comments
I have come to the conclusion that being clued in to the often disparate listening habits of the musicians I listen to, will lead my brain to a big “?”. When I saw that Tomas Lindberg had for January 2015, a recommended list for/on Spotify — posted at the top of the band’s official website […]
November 17, 2014 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal Reviews Tags: Dreams Of Horror, Heavy Metal, KING DIAMOND, Reviews • 0 Comments
The King is back! A triple bypass operation behind him, King Diamond, age 58, has signed with Metal Blade records for three albums. Guitarist, Andy La Rocque is on board and the studio in which they will record in Sweden has been enhanced. And the money is bountiful, too. To whet everyone’s appetite for the […]
The Top 10 Best Heavy Metal Guitarists Of All Time – #7 EDDIE VAN HALEN & RANDY RHOADS
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 […]