Ripper Owens joins forces with Richard Christy to create his 18th side project

Charred Walls Of The Damned is the new band/side-project from drummer Richard Christy (Iced Earth/Death ), and Tim Ripper Owens  (Iced Earth/Yngwie Malmsteen/Judas Priest/Beyond Fear, etc...).  Their self titled debut album is set to be released this Tuesday (02/02) and being that Ripper and Richard are old school metalheads the band is hosting a release party at Fontanas that very day.  It's free to enter, plus the men of the hour will be their themselves to sign copies of the cd as you listen to it.  If that's not enough to get you there, there will also be free beer and free live music from Javelina, the Judas Syndrome and The Hixon.  None of the bands are that great I have to admit, but the price is right.  See you there.

RIP Chuck

8 years ago today Chuck Schuldiner, the man behind Death, lost his battle with cancer  D:

Memorial show for Chuck Shuldiner

Tonight at 7:00 at Club Europa is a tribute/memorial show of local tri-state death metal bands that will be all about the late great Chuck Shuldiner who founded Death. Death is one of those bands with little commercial success, but a cult like following a very popular band to name-drop as an influence for other bands. Death was one of the earliest death metal bands of it's kind and really influenced the genre.

No to mention, my boy RICHARD CHRISTY (drummer of Death and Iced Earth) will be there!!

RIP Chuck

Fellow Long Islander and "Father of Death Metal" himself, Chuck Schuldiner, was born 34 years ago today. Too bad he died in 2001.