Archive for April, 2009

Hammerfall – No Sacrifice, No Victory (2009, Nuclear Blast) Any Means Necessary Life Is Now Punish And Enslave Legion Between Two Worlds Hallowed Be Thy Name Something For The Ages No Sacrifice, No Victory Bring The Hammer Down One Of A Kind My Sharona Band Lineup: Joacim Cans – Lead Vocals Oscar Dronjak – Guitars [...]

Great White – Rising (2009, Frontiers Records) Situation All Or Nothin’ I Don’t Mind Shine Loveless Is It Enough Last Chance Danger Zone Down On The Level Only You Can Do My Sanctuary Let’s Spend The Night Together (bonus track) Band Lineup: Jack Russell – Lead & Background Vocals Mark Kendall – Guitars & Background [...]

Heaven & Hell – The Devil You Know (2009) – $9.99: I was outside my local Best Buy at 9:45 this morning to get the new Heaven & Hell album because Best Buy had a bonus DVD of studio footage included with the CD. The sale price was phenomenal for a 2 disc set! I [...]

I had a couple of guys call in for the overnight shift Saturday into Sunday so I had to pull a double shift of 16 hours: 4pm Saturday to 8am Sunday. Normally it sucks but I was able to get most of the work done on my first shift and the overnight 8 hours was [...]

I had a few coupons that came out this past Tuesday for the new Lacuna Coil and Seventh Void CDs so I had to burn them by Saturday. Unfortunately my schedule with work and the family stopped me from hitting the record store on Tuesday so I hit it Saturday. Lacuna Coil – Shallow Life [...]

In anticipation for the new Artillery album “When Death Comes”, Metal Mind Productions will release the band’s first live album. The album entitled “One Foot in the Grave, The Other One in the Trash” features a fantastic gig the thrash veterans of Artillery gave at Metalmania Festival 2008! The outstanding guitar play of brothers Stützer, [...]

Denmark’s Artillery is one of Europe’s earliest exponents of thrash metal and the band’s contribution to the bourgeoning genre is difficult to ignore. The Danish quartet successfully managed to fuse an abrasive brutality with technicality and good melodies, with the noteworthy guitar leads of the Stützer brothers as well as the remarkable vocals from Flemming [...]

Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America (2009, Heathen Films/Magnolia Pictures) (Region 0, NTSC, Total Running Time = 147 minutes) Director: Tony Stone Severed Ways Severed Ways MySpace Films page Severed Ways on IMDB Heathen Films Magnolia Pictures I enjoy good movies but I’m hardly film aficionado. I took a few film classes in college and I [...]

I’ve been a record store junkie since I was a young kid and I still get a charge out of searching through stacks of CDs and racks of vinyl. I learned about music in the record store and I entered the culture of Heavy Metal and of the collector. Record Store Day is one of my favorite [...]

Just a friendly reminder that today is Record Store Day…..so get out there to your local mom & pop/independent record store and drop some cash! If you’re in the Rhode Island/Southeastern Massachusetts area, I will be visiting the following stores dressed in my Saxon Metalhead Tour 1999 shirt: Newbury Comics – Warwick, RI Newbury Comics – North [...]

I’m on Twitter now! I figured that I would make good use of the Twitter phenomenon and put up the widget so I could real time update what I’m up to without clogging up the scheduled posts. If you want to follow Heavy Metal Addiction on Twitter then go to http://twitter.com/rhodeislandrock