Howdy there! I hope everyone had an awesome holidays and I'd like to wish everyone a Happy New Year!
I will be appearing at the 2012 NAMM Show at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California on Saturday January 21st! I'll be singing autographs at the DDRUM (the drum company I endorse) booth starting at 3pm and I can't wait to hang with the fans! This will be my first time at NAMM, I've been wanting to check it out for years and I've heard it's really amazing so I'm super excited about this! I'll have more info as the convention gets closer too and I hope to see you all there!
-Richard Christy
November 24, 2011 CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED RELEASE "ZEROSPAN" VIDEO TRAILER
Richard Christy talks about the concept behind the video: "What we're crafting with the "Zerospan" video is a five minute technological horror film set to blistering heavy metal! We had such an amazing filmmaking team for the "Zerospan" video. We had Directors Mike Schiff (Charred Walls 'Ghost Town' video) and Sean McEwan (Albino Farm) who are super talented and have brought some incredible ideas! We also had amazing special effects makeup by Brian Spears and Pete Gerner from G and S Effects who recently did the amazing vampire film "Stakeland"! Our lead actor Bryan Haeffele did amazing as well, and people are going to freak when they see the creature effects in this video! We're going to spend some time editing and making it perfect and we're looking to a January 2012 release date! We wanted to release this quick little teaser to give everyone a taste of the horrifying awesomeness that will be the "Zerospan" video! Trust me, it is going to be well worth the wait!"
Cold Winds On Timeless Days has received heaps of praise from press, see what's been said so far below.
"a 58-minute barrage of cutting-edge power metal abounding with tumbling polyrhythms, asymmetrical riffs, and unconventional arrangements. Though technically demanding, the songs are focused by the tuneful, vibrato-laden vocals of Tim "Ripper Owens and the crafty guitar work and stellar production of Jason Suecof." 4/5 stars, Revolver Magazine
"Charred Walls of the Damned are a rarity in the metal world — a supergroup that’s actually super…I defy you to listen to it and not raise a pair of invisible elephantiasis-afflicted nuts towards the sky. It’s impossible. It just can’t be done." MetalSucks.net
"It's smart, it's melodic, and it's sure to get the head banging. A quality slice of US metal." Big Cheese Magazine
"complicated riffs and numerous tempo shifts…the musicianship is flawless…technical skill is top-notch" About.com
October 23, 2011 CWOTD VIDEOS, REVIEWS, & INTERVIEWS
Howdy everybody! Whewwwww, it's been a very busy several weeks with the release of the new Charred Walls of the Damned album "Cold Winds On Timeless Days" on Oct. 11th which you can buy everywhere now! Thank you so much to everyone who came to the Charred Walls signings and also to everyone who has purchased the new album and emailed me nice things about it! The reviews and feedback for the new album have been incredible and I couldn't be more psyched!!! I have tons of Drumming and Studio Video, Reviews, and Interviews about the new Charred Walls of the Damned album to post here so I'll get right to it! Happy Halloween Everybody!
October 8, 2011 TWO CWOTD RELEASE PARTY ANNOUNCEMENTS
Richard will be Meeting, Greeting, & Signing CDs for CWOTD's new album 'Cold Winds On Timeless Days' at two places on Tuesday October 11, 2011.
Tuesday October 11, 2011 The Knitting Factory
Time: 5pm-7pm
Location: 361 Metropolitan Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11211
Tuesday October 11, 2011 Idle Hands Bar
Time: 9pm-?
Location: 25 Ave B B/W 2nd 3rd St, NYC 10009
September 26, 2011 CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED REVIEWS, CWOTD 3-D POSTER, RARE SIGNING SESSION, 'ZEROPSAN' VIDEO IN THE WORKS, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, PUMPKIN MIMOSA, METALSUCKS.NET PHOTO CONTEST, sCARE FOUNDATION,EVIL NED 3, AND MOVIE REVIEW FOR FUBAR 2
Well there’s tons of new about the new Charred Walls of the Damned album and various other goings on so I’ll get right to it!
The new Charred Walls of the Damned album “Cold Winds On Timeless Days” comes out in America everywhere on Tuesday October 11th 2011 and in Europe a few days before as well as the rest of the world and I couldn’t be more excited!!!! I just got my first official CD copy in the mail a few days ago and it looks AMAZING!!! I’m so psyched with how the artwork and layout looks for this album, here’s a pic of the new CD. I know it’s easier to buy off iTunes but trust me, if you buy the actual CD you’re going to freak out on how metal it is! The artwork by Travis Smith is incredible and the logo and album title in Silver Foil looks beautiful!!!!
There are some really amazing pre-order packages available for the new Charred Walls album, including a Metal Blade pre order featuring a killer new Charred Walls shirt that you can order here: IndieMerch.com/...
And a Benchmark Merchandising Pre Order featuring brand new Charred Walls of the Damned hoodies (just in time for the fall and winter!), an AMAZING “Cold Winds on Timeless Days” album cover art 3-D poster, a brand spanking new Charred Walls tshirt, and also a signed (by me, the infamous metal concert diaper wearer) Adult Concert Diaper! You can wear it the next time you come to see Charred Walls of the Damned live so that you don’t have to miss any songs to use the restroom haha! ShopBenchmark.com/...
I’m also super psyched to announce that I will be signing Charred Walls of the Damned CD’s at our exclusive album release party before the Black Dahlia Murder show at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, New York on the night of the album release Oct. 11th! I’m a huge Black Dahlia fan, their new album Ritual rules, and I’m psyched to be signing our new album, then hanging at the show with all the fans! You won’t need a ticket to the show to get your album signed but you should DEFINITELY hang out afterward to see the amazing show with Black Dahlia Murder, All Shall Perish, Cannibas Corpse, and Gang Signs! I’ll have much more info on the release party and also a possible Black Dahlia show after party very soon!
I’m also super pumped to announce that last weekend we filmed a video for the new Charred Walls song “Zerospan” and it freaking rules!!! Metal fans AND Horror fans are going to be so psyched to see this video! We’re gonna spend some time editing it and doing some post production to make it super awesome and it should premier later in the year, it will definitely be worth the wait! My good friend Mike Schiff who directed the “Ghost Town” video also co-directed the Zerospan video along with my good friend Sean McEwan who I worked with on the horror film Albino Farm, and the makeup effects were done by the great Brian Spears and Peter Gerner at G&S Effects LightAndDark.net/... Brian and Peter did the effects for the amazing vampire film “Stakeland” which if you’re a horror fan, you HAVE to see, it RULES!
With my favorite time of the year (Fall and Halloween time!) now officially here, I have some really cool things to announce concerning all things Halloweenie!
Myself and my best buddy Sal Governale are hosting the first ever Zombie 5K obstacle course race in Darlington Maryland on Saturday October 22nd! If, like me, you’re dream of being chased by brain thirsty zombies has yet to be fulfilled, then this is the event for you!!! It is going to be amazing and I’m so psyched to be a part of this event! Tickets are only on sale until October 1st, less than a week from now, so get your tickets now to be a part of this horrifyingly historic event!!! You can get your tickets and all the info about the event here: RunForYourLives.com/....
My good friend Eric Pigors at ToxicToons.com has some of the most incredible Halloween merchandise ever! I just got his newest Halloween tshirt and it rules! You can check it out here!
He has tons of killer Halloween stuff and also an awesome Halloween app called Monsterpieces that you can get in the iTunes store for your iPhone, it’s the perfect app to get you in the mood for the greatest day of the year – Halloween!!!! And in case you’re wondering what I’m imbibing in that pic, it’s a pumpkin mimosa, pumpkin liqueur with champagne, and it is delicious!
A lot of people ask me what my favorite pumpkin beers are this time of the year, and I do have many, so I’m going to list some of my favorites here, to help get you in the mood for fall and Halloween! My absolute all time favorite is Southern Tier Pumking, it’s like Pumpkin Pie in a glass! I also love Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin, Elysian Night Owl Pumpkin, Wolavers Pumpkin Ale, Stegmaier Pumpkin Ale, Fisherman’s Pumpkin Stout, Bluepoint Pumpkin Ale, and Smuttynose Pumpkin Ale, you can’t go wrong with any of those this time of the year!
I’m also very happy to announce a fun and unique contest sponsored by the awesome website MetalSucks.net/... it’s a contest for all of you Photoshop wizards out there where you can take a picture of me and go crazy with it and make something hilarious, cool, or both, and win an amazing prize pack featuring –
One grand prize winner will receive:
1 Signed Sabian Cymbal
1 Signed Aquarian Drumhead
1 Signed pair of Vater 3A Fatback Drumsticks (the size Richard uses)
1 pair of Custom Vater full color Charred Walls of the Damned debut album art Drumsticks
1 signed Adult Concert Diaper (worn — but not used — by Richard at the Big 4 at Yankee Stadium show last week)
1 copy of Cold Winds On Timeless Days
1 CWOTD “Shield” t-shirt
Two runners-up will receive:
1 copy of “Cold Winds On Timeless Days”
1 CWOTD “Shield” t-shirt
I wanna give a HUGE congrats to my good buddy Jose Mangin from Sirius-XM’s Liquid Metal for introducing Metallica at Yankees Stadium in NYC!!!! I went to the show and it RULED!!!! Every band was incredible and it was SOOO inspiring to see metal being played in a huge stadium like it was back in the good ol’ days of the 1980’s! Watching Slayer play Angel Of Death in Yankee Stadium was just about the greatest metal moment ever!
I’m very honored to announce that I’m now involved in a great charity called the sCARE foundation, which stands for Suspense Community Allocating Relief and Empowerment, it’s a non profit organization made up of suspense and horror genre luminaries working toward alleviating the hardships of povery and homelessness facing today’s youth throughout North America. My good friend Malek Akkad who’s the producer of the Halloween movies, started the foundation and I think it’s such an amazing cause and I’m honored to be a part of it! For more information on the sCARE foundation you can go to ScareFoundation.org/sCare and they will be hosting a really cool fundraiser in October that I will have much more info on in the future!
Every month I write an article for the AWESOME metal magazine Decibel called Richard Christy’s Horrorscope, I’m so psyched to be a part of the magazine and I wanna let everyone know that the October Halloween issue features an article I wrote about my very own horror film Evil Ned 3!!! You can check the film out for yourself on Youtube and make sure you check out my article in the new Decibel (The issue with Skeletonwitch on the cover) about this groundbreaking (literally because I was buried in the ground wearing a Halloween mask for one scene) low budget horror film! DecibelMagazine.com
And finally, I want to let everyone know about an incredibly funny Canadian heavy metal mockumentary called FUBAR: Balls To The Wall. I haven’t laughed this hard at a movie in a VERY long time and when I saw it last week on cable I was blown away and couldn’t believe I hadn’t heard of this movie before! If you’re a metalhead and love comedy, like me, then you have to see this movie, it RULES! It’s a sequel to a low budget film called FUBAR that I still have to see, but trust me, the sequel is freakin’ HILARIOUS!!!! YouTube.com/...
Well, that’s it for now, I’ll have tons of awesome Charred Walls of the Damned 2nd album news coming up very soon leading up to the Tuesday October 11th release of ‘Cold Winds On Timeless Days’!!!!
- Richard Christy
September 9, 2011 CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED PRE-ORDER INFO, CWOTD COMPUTER DESKTOP WALLPAPER, ZOMBIE RUN, AND AN APPEARANCE ON BLUE MOUNTAIN STATE
Well, it's only about a month until the release of my band Charred Walls of the Damned's second full length album titled Cold Winds on Timeless Days! It's available everywhere Tuesday October 11th on Metal Blade Records! I'm super psyched and there's plenty of cool things related to the band to report.
First off I'd like to give a HUGE thank you to the amazing artist Travis Smith at SeemPieces.com for the incredible cover art for the new Charred Walls of the Damned album. Travis also worked with Death and Control Denied and he's done tons of cool heavy metal album covers so it's an honor to have him as the cover artist for the new album. As a cool bonus for fans I've posted a computer desktop wallpaper of the new Charred Walls cover art that you can download right here! Click on the artwork and it will open a new image that you can download.
I also want to remind everyone that you can hear the brand new Charred Walls of the Damned single "Zerospan" from our new album right here: MetalBlade.com/cwotd You can also pre order the new album there, including a CD and Tshirt package! You can also here "Zerospan" on Sirius-XM's Liquid Metal channel and as always I want to thank Jose and everyone at Liquid Metal for all of their support of Charred Walls of the Damned! You guys rule!
Well, for me it's coming upon my favorite time of the year - Halloweentime! Pumpkin Beer, Horror Movies, Horror Music, Haunted Houses, A Chill in the Air, everything about late September and October is amazing! One of the ways I'm celebrating the best time of the year is by appearing along with my good buddy Sal Governale at the first ever Zombie 5K Obstacle Course Race in Darlington Maryland on Saturday October 22nd! It's going to be a blast, people running from zombies just like in a George Romero movie! Sal and I are hosting and I'm SOOOO looking forward to it! If you'd like to come hang with Sal and I and to get tickets and information you can go to RunForYourLives.com Make sure you bring your fresh, tasty BRAINNNSSSSS!!!
I'm also super psyched to report that my buddy Sal and I are appearing in part 2 of the season 3 premier of the Spike TV show Blue Mountain State! I'm a big fan of the show; I think it's hilarious, so I'm super excited to appear in an episode with my buddy Sal!! Our scenes are really funny and I can't wait for everyone to see it! Season Three kicks off Wednesday, September 21st at 11pm EST/PST with back to back episodes! I hope you check it out! For all the info about the show you can go here: Spike.com/...
Well, I think that's about it for now, time for me to go grab a pumpkin beer! Take Care Everybody!
- Richard Christy
August 23, 2011 CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED SINGLE 'ZEROSPAN' RELEASED TODAY, RICHARD TO BE INTERVIEWED ON LIQUID METAL TODAY, CWOTD TRACK LISTING, & PICTURES FROM THE WEDDING
Well this is a very exciting update because I can now officially announce that the new Charred Walls of the Damned album, which is being released on Tuesday October 11th, is titled Cold Winds On Timeless Days! It’s 12 songs of crushing heavy metal and I CAN’T WAIT for everyone to hear it. I’m VERY proud of this album, everyone worked so hard on it and when you listen to it, it definitely shows. Below is the press release with all of the info on where you can hear the first single 'Zerospan', which is out TODAY!! In the press release is also info about where to pre order the album and when you can hear it premier today on Sirius-XM Liquid Metal! There will also be tons of info about the album release trickling in for the next several weeks leading up to the release!!
Charred Walls of the Damned release first single, details for new album
Cold Winds on Timeless Days to be released October 11th, 2011
Charred Walls of the Damned returns with the follow up to their critically acclaimed self-titled debut! Richard Christy, Tim "Ripper" Owns, Jason Suecof and Steve DiGiorgio once again join forces to bring to life Christy's latest body of work, Cold Winds on Timeless Days. The writing process for the new album actually began while the band was mixing their 2010 debut. Richard Christy used his experience on the first album to write songs that catered not only to each member's playing style, but to Jason Suecof's production style. The result: demos that turned out nearly identical to what ended up on the album.
With 12 songs clocking in at 58 minutes, fans are getting a lot more music this time around. Recording twelve songs in a short amount of time is no easy feat, but one that was accomplished because of the stellar talents in the band. Christy elaborates further; "I wanted to get a natural sound out of this album, I wanted everyone to be well rehearsed, not that I wanted the album to be rushed, but I wanted the spontaneous live feel and not over think anything too much." Richard Christy describes Cold Winds on Timeless Days as a "perfect storm of producing" – Audiohammer's Jason Suecof produced and Mark Lewis mixed, while mastering was handled by Alan Douches at West Westside.
Fans can hear the first single, Zerospan, as well as place pre-orders now on metalblade.com/cwotd. The album can also be pre-ordered on iTunes HERE. Additionally, Richard Christy will be on air with SiriusXM Liquid Metal's Jose Mangin today Tuesday August 23rd for an interview and to premiere the track on air. Fans can hear the interview and song today at approximately 9am, 3pm and 9pm eastern time! For more info on Liquid Metal, head to http://www.siriusxm.com/liquidmetal.
Cold Winds On Timeless Days track listing:
1. Timeless Days
2. Ashes Falling Upon Us
3. Zerospan
4. Cold Winds
5. Lead the Way
6. Forever Marching On
7. Guiding Me
8. The Beast Outside My Window
9. On Unclean Ground
10. Bloodworm
11. Admire the Heroes
12. Avoid the Light
I also want to thank everyone for all of the very kind emails and nice words about my recent wedding! My wife and I had an amazing time with our friends and family and if you’d like to see a bunch of really cool photos from the wedding you can go here: http://BSCphoto.com/...
-Richard Christy
May 24, 2011 APPEARANCES IN L.A. & ORLANDO, SECOND CWOTD, TOONTRACK, BEER PAGE, ENDORSEMENT PAGE, MY PERSONAL PHOTOS, & NICKEL SPA
Hey Everybody, I have some exciting announcements about appearances by myself and my coworker buddy Sal Governale! We'll be appearing together in Hollywood, California on Saturday June 18th from 7-11pm at Avalon Hollywood's Club Bardot! This will be an appearance, not a comedy show, and we'll be hanging, signing autographs, and drinking with everyone who wants to come out and have a great time with us! For more information and tickets you can go to CleanBoxEntertainment.com
. Sal and I will also be appearing in Orlando, Florida on Saturday June 25th from 10pm to 1am at Terra Mia Trattoria! For reservations you can email richardandsalparty@yahoo.com. We're really looking forward to meeting all the fans and having a great time!
I'm also super psyched that the second album from my band Charred Walls of the Damned is almost finished! We'll be mixing the album in June and we're hoping for an October 11, 2011 release worldwide on Metal Blade Records! The album is crushing and I'm so proud of it, I cannot wait for people to hear it!!!! I'll have tons of updates in the next several months about the new album including videos, photos, audio clips and tons of other fun stuff!
I’m also excited to announce that I’m now a Toontrack endorser, they’re an amazing company with some really cool software! I’ve been a big fan of theirs for many years now and I’m so excited to be working with them! The Drumkit From Hell software is incredible and when I’m writing music it’s such a helpful tool, I’m also now using the Metal Foundry software with Superior Drummer and I LOVE it! I’m hoping to even maybe be recording some drum tracks for them in the future!
I’m also adding a beer page to my website with a list of all of my favorite beers! I’m a HUGE craft beer fan and many fans email me asking for beer suggestions so I decided to make a beer page with all of my favorite beers and links to their websites! It's a really exciting time for beer in America right now because there are so many amazing craft breweries and I'm a proud beer geek who watches all of the beer TV shows and video podcasts!
Speaking of beer, I want to thank everyone at the Samuel Adams Brewery for an amazing brewery tour this past weekend! I had an AMAZING time and got to try so many delicious Sam Adams beers! If you’re ever in Boston I highly suggest checking out the brewery!
I’m also adding an endorsement page to my website with a list of all of my equipment and links to websites of the companies I endorse!
A cool event for a good cause is coming up in June in New York City. It's at one of my favorite places in NYC, Nickel Spa, and all the info is below if you'd like to check it out!
I'd also like to share a few pictures that I've taken with all of you, you can find them on the Photos page. I LOVE the city that I live in, New York City, and I think it is so beautiful and I love taking scenery photos, including photos of the amazing city of New York! I'm really proud of my photos and one of them (the fireworks photo) has even been hung up at a local restaurant in Long Island City Queens, NY called Bella Via! I hope you enjoy them!
Well I think that’s about it for now, I’ll have plenty of Charred Walls of the Damned news coming up about our second album, I can’t wait for everyone to hear it!!!
-Richard Christy
April 21, 2011 FOG DAY, CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED RECORDING BASS & VOCALS, MEET & GREET IN L.A., THANX FOR THE PUMPKIN BEER, & DEVONNE 'ERNIE' GRAHAM THE BETTA FISH
I know everybody is celebrating the BIG Holiday this week...The Fog Day! April 21st, the day when John Carpenter's The Fog takes place! I'll be watching this horror classic and I hope you will too! I actually was interviewed about it here! http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/24247
There’s some exciting news concerning Charred Walls of the Damned! We’re finishing up bass and vocals in the next two weeks for our second album and we will be mixing the album in May for a hopefully September release!!! The album is going to be amazing and I can’t even contain my excitement about it! I’m so pumped for everyone to hear it, it will definitely exceed everone’s expectations!!!
I wanna let everyone know about an appearance that myself and my work buddy Sal Governale will be doing in Los Angeles in June! It’s Saturday June 18th from 7-11pm at Avalon Hollywood’s night club Bardot. I want to make everyone aware that this is only an appearance, not a comedy show, and we will be meeting and greeting and partying with everyone that comes to the club to hang with us! It’s been a while since Sal and I have been to California and we’re super excited to hang with all of the fans!!! For info and tickets you can go to http://cleanboxentertainment.com/tickets_mm.html Hope to see you there!
On a happy note I want to thank the bars The Diamond in Brooklyn and Rattle N Hum in Manhattan for serving Pumpkin Beer in April this year!!! The Diamond served my favorite beer ever, Southern Tier Pumking and Rattle N Hum served my second favorite beer ever Weyerbacher’s Imperial Pumpkin. Both were an unexpected surprise and made my April very Halloweenie!!!!
And on a very sad note, my fiance and I’s beloved Betta fish Devonne “Ernie” Graham, who we’ve had for over two years and became very very attached to, passed away this week. If everyone reading this could just give a toast to Ernie or say a nice thing about him, that would be awesome and my fiance and I would be forever grateful! He meant so much to us and it’s been a very tough week for us to see him go. We will never ever forget him.
Well, take care everyone and as always, keep it metal!
-Richard Christy
March 30, 2011 CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED NEW RECORDING, NOISECREEP DRUMMING ARTICLE, CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED PIANO COVER TUNE, REISSUE OF DEATH'S THE SOUND OF PERSEVERANCE, LOSE IT!, ROLLING STONE ARTICLE, & JASON SUECOF IMPERSONATES RICHARD CHRISTY
Well, it's been quite a while since my last update. Between work, several concerts, beerfests, KU in the NCAA tournament, getting ready for my upcoming wedding, and recording the second Charred Walls of the Damned album, it's been a very busy 2011 so far!
First off, the second Charred Walls of the Damned album is coming along amazingly! Drums and guitars are done, and we're currently getting ready to record the bass and vocals. This album is going to be incredible, I'm so proud of it. I can't wait for all of the fans to hear it, if you liked the first album, you're definitely going to love this album! It's going to be super melodic, have plenty of blast beats, plenty of super catchy vocal parts, heavy guitars, and insane bass parts! We're hoping for a September or October release on Metal Blade Records!
I have a new feature on Noisecreep.com where I list several of my favorite drumming parts. It's a really cool article and I talk about all of my drumming influences and there are links included where you can listen to all of the drum parts that I talk about! You can check it out here: http://www.noisecreep.com/...
In other Charred Walls of the Damned news, an amazing musician from Europe named Vika recently did a piano cover version of the CWOTD song “In A World So Cruel” and it sounds really cool! You can check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/...
The new Amon Amarth album Surtur Rising comes out today and it is CRUSHING! I've been listening to it nonstop in the past few weeks and I'm so psyched when a metal album comes out that you can listen to all the way through without stopping, and this is definitely one of those albums! The double bass/chorus riff in The Last Stand of Frej is maybe the greatest riff I've ever heard! It's so heavy and catchy! I can't wait to see them live in May!
Also, my proudest work as a drummer, Death's 1998 album The Sound of Perseverance special edition reissue is out now on Relapse Records! Relapse, Eric Greif, and Chuck’s family did an amazing job putting together beautiful packaging and some amazing bonus materials for this special edition release! You can follow this link to check it out! http://shop.relapse.com/...
A lot of people have been asking me how I lost 65 pounds in the past year so I might as well give a plug to the Iphone app that helped me lose all the weight. It’s called Lose It and it worked amazingly for me. The best part about it is that it’s free and I didn’t have to stop drinking craft beer!!!!
My good buddy and also guitarist for Charred Walls of the Damned, Jason Suecof, recently did a really cool interview for the website Metal Injection, and if you watch at the very end you can see him do his “near spot on” imitation of me! http://www.metalinjection.net/...
Myself and my coworker at The Howard Stern Show, Sal Governale, were recently featured on RollingStone.com which is pretty awesome! http://www.rollingstone.com/...
Well, I think that’s about it for now, I will have plenty more Charred Walls of the Damned second album updates in the coming weeks and months! Until next time, drink good beer and keep it metal!
-Richard Christy
anuary 24, 2011 CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED MAKES SEVERAL 2010 LISTS
As I write this update I just found out that the Big Four tour is coming to the US!!! Official news will be announced on Tuesday, January 25 at 8 a.m. PST. It is an awesome day for metal heads in the United States!
I'm super excited that Charred Walls of the Damned made several Best of 2010 lists including 'Time Out New York'! Here are some links to a few different Best of 2010 lists and charts that Charred Walls of the Damned were listed in!
Hank Shteamer, Associate Music Editor Time Out New York: Charred Walls of the Damned (Metal Blade) "Moonlighting from his Howard Stern day gig, drummer Richard Christy stewarded a subgenre-spanning metal triumph." NewYork.TimeOut.com/...
CMJ Loud Rock; 2010 Year-end Charts
#43 CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED Charred Walls Of The Damned (Metal Blade) CMJ.Box.net/...
Charred Walls one of WSCA 106.1 FM's most played of 2010
-More great Hard Rock & Metal records from 2010-
Charred Walls of the Damned - s/t - I love everything Ripper does. Period. THE voice of American metal. An impressive return to metal for Richard Christy.
WSCA 106.1 FM's 50 MOST PLAYED 2010 METAL & HARD ROCK ALBUMS
I also recently did a list of my favorite restaurants in my neighborhood of Long Island City Queens if you'd like to check it out! CitysBest.com/...
Well, until next time, keep it metal!
-Richard Christy
January 4, 2011 RECORDED DRUMS FOR THE NEW CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED ALBUM
Hey Everybody,
well I have some really exciting news about my band Charred Walls of the Damned! Last week I recorded drum tracks for 12 new songs for the second Charred Walls of the Damned album! I flew down to Miami, Florida the day after Christmas to start tracking drums at the legendary studio The Hit Factory Criteria Studios. The drum room we recorded in was insane, it was the size of a school gymnasium and my drums sounded massive in there! We got a very natural drum sound thanks to our awesome engineer Mark Lewis and the amazing drum room, everything went really smooth and we finished up in a very quick two and a half days, and I'm super excited for everyone to hear the monster drum sound we got for these awesome songs. Seeing gold albums hanging on the walls from bands like The Eagles and Black Sabbath was so inspiring too, the historic music that's been created at that studio is just unreal and it was an honor to record the drums for the second Charred Walls of the Damned album there. We'll be finishing up the rest of the album in January and February at Audiohammer Studios in Orlando and we're hoping to have the album out some time this summer. The songs are super heavy, brutal, and very melodic and catchy like the first album, I can't wait for people to hear our new material! I'll have many more updates in the coming months and I also took tons of video in the studio that I'll be posting here on my site and also possibly including in a bonus DVD when our second CD comes out. I'm posting some cool photos from our drum recording for everyone to check out too, and until the next update I would like to wish everyone a very happy, healthy and Metal New Year!
-Richard Christy
November 7, 2010 RICHARD CHRISTY'S HOLIDAY HORROR FEST PREMIERS THIS SATURDAY NIGHT ON REELZCHANNEL!!
HOLIDAY CHEER TURNS TO HOLIDAY FEAR ON REELZCHANNEL “Richard Christy's Holiday Horror Fest” Special Premieres Saturday, December 11 at 11pm ET/ 8pm PT
(Albuquerque, NM) December 1, 2010 – It’s the holidays—time for family, gift giving and stories of Zombie Santa. Wait, what? REELZCHANNEL—TV About Movies® today announced “Richard Christy’s Holiday Horror Fest” special, hosted by actor, comedian and heavy metal drummer Richard Christy. New and classic scary movies, a Zombie Santa in action and a visit to a real-life ghost town where horror-movie legend John Carpenter filmed Vampires are all part of this terrifyingly terrific holiday special. The episode premieres Saturday, December 11 at 11pm ET/ 8pm PT only on REELZCHANNEL.
“As a life long horror fanatic, hosting a show like this is a dream come true for me. REELZCHANNEL is a big supporter of the genre with late-night airings of Masters of Horror and I’m so excited to be working with them,” said Christy. “This show was created by horror fans for horror fans and I’m extremely proud to be hosting ‘Richard Christy’s Holiday Horror Fest,’ your television destination for all things horror and sci-fi!”
Richard Christy is an actor, comedian, musician and well-known horror movie expert. He contributes a monthly article to Decibel Magazine titled, “Richard Christy’s Horrorscope,” where he writes about both horror movies and metal music. As a drummer in various heavy metal bands, Christy has toured around the United States and Europe.
About REELZCHANNEL
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-Richard Christy
November 21, 2010 RICHARD CHRISTY'S HOLIDAY HORRORFEST!
I'm a huge Horror Movie nerd so I'm super excited to announce that on Saturday December 11th I will be hosting a new show on the Reelz Channel called Richard Christy's Holiday Horrorfest! It's all about horror movies and, specifically for this episode, Holiday themed horror films. I'll be doing interviews, behind the scenes segments, spotlighting horror movie music and special effects, showcasing new and classic horror films, and tons of other fun stuff! Reelz Channel is available on Direct TV, Dish Network, FIOS, and Most Cable Providers. If the show does well it could become a regular series so if you're a fan of horror please check it out!
Richard Christy's Holiday Horrorfest!
The show will air (all times EST):
Saturday 12/11: 11:00PM
Sunday 12/12: 2:30AM & 11:00PM
www.reelzchannel.com
-Richard Christy
November 4, 2010 HALLOWEEN, CHARRED WALLS GRAMMY NOMINATION, CONTROL DENIED REISSUE, & DDRUM VIDEO
Well it's been quite a while since I've updated my site because I've been fully immersed in Halloween activities for the last month and a half and I've also been finishing up writing the songs for the next Charred Walls of the Damned album which I'm super psyched to say that we will begin recording next month! So here's some of the stuff that I have going on right now!
Another Halloween has come and gone and I'm now in a post Halloween funk after having about the most fun October ever! My fiance and I did so many cool and different things this year including visiting Pennhurst Haunt Asylum and doing a Ghost Hunt throughout some of the abandoned buildings, spent an incredible weekend in Salem, Mass, went to the always amazing Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Orlando, stayed in a haunted hotel in Sleepy Hollow and visited the Great Pumpkin Blaze and Horseman's Hollow Haunted House, visited the Dorney Park Haunt in Pennsylvania, ate and drank more Pumpkin foods and drink than should be humanlypossible and even got a Pumpkin Spice Spa treatment,and topped it all off with a day at my buddy Brian Spears from G&S Effects house where he did the most amazing Halloween makeup ever for me! Brian just did the effects for an incredible new Vampire movie called Stakeland which I saw last week and I have to say is one of the best Vampire movies I've ever seen! He based my makeup on the Vampire makeup he did for Stakeland and words can't even do it justice, so there are some pictures you can check out on the Photos page courtesy of photographer Bryan Haeffele!
The first Control Denied album "The Fragile Art of Existence" was just reissued through Relapse records and if you are a fan of the great Chuck Schuldiner and the band Death then you should definitely check it out! I was very happy to write the liner notes for the reissue and I'm so happy that new fans will be able to hear this amazing album. I have many great memories of making this album with my friends Chuck, Shannon, Tim and Steve and I'm so happy that Relapse has put together a beautifully packaged reissue of this album. You can pick up two different versions of the CD along with cool new Control Denied shirts here: http://shop.relapse.com/...
I just found out that Charred Walls of the Damned is on the preliminary ballot for next years Grammy Awards! We're up for nomination for the song 'Ghost Town', so if you're a member of the Grammy committee I would be honored if you vote for us!! This was something that I didn't even fathom that we'd ever be considered for so just to be on the preliminary ballot is an honor!
I also want to remind everyone of the Charred Walls of the Damned Online Store which you can find here on the front page of my site, featuring some really cool Charred Walls merch!
There's a new interview and drum video of me on DDrum's Youtube channel, the video turned out really cool, the guys at DDrum did an amazing job producing this video! youtube.com/...
-Richard Christy
August 18, 2010 HIXONFEST HEAVY METAL FEST PRESS RELEASE, CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED VINYL AVAILABLE, LIC MAGAZINE INTERVIEW NOW ONLINE!
Hey Everybody, here's the official press release and a promo video for the upcoming Hixonfest 2010 Heavy Metal Festival in New York City which is going to be a blast as always! I've hosted Hixonfest for three years now and I guarantee that if you come to it this year you will have a great time!!! Here are all the details...
Horns Up Rocks and Jefferson Avenue Productions present the 2010 Hixonfest. We decided that it was time for The Hixon to host their annual festival in New York City and thanks to Ace of Clubs this is happening on Friday August 27th! We have 5 great bands, we have the Crown Ink Divas model search, we have a rocking DJ and strip poles, yes strip poles! We are also raffling two tickets for the American Carnage concert at Nassau Coliseum on October 8th. The Hixonfest ticket is the raffle ticket for the American Carnage ticket giveaway.
I'm SOOO psyched to announce that you can now order the Charred Walls of the Damned album on Vinyl!!! Click here to order the album now through Metal Blade Records! MetalBlade.com/charred...
I've also put the brand new interview with me from LIC Magazine in the Media/Interviews section of the website if you'd like to check it out! See you at Hixonfest!
Check out the Sirius Radio spot for Hixonfest
We hope to see you there and to throw the HORNS UP with YOU!
-Richard Christy
August 10, 2010 THANK YOU, AND CHECK OUT THE LIVE VIDEOS & PICTURES OF CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED AND PERSONAL INTERVIEWS!
Hey there everybody, it’s been a little while since I’ve updated my site and I have a lot of things to mention so I’ll get right to it!
First off I want to give a MASSIVE Thank you to all of the fans who came to see Charred Walls of the Damned live on our first ever tour this past July! The shows were amazing and it was so inspiring to see fans singing along to all of the Charred Walls of the Damned songs! I also want to give a HUGE thank you to the incredible musicians that joined Tim and I on tour, John Comprix and Matt Sorg on Guitar and Ed Stephens on Bass. These guys are world class musicians and they came totally prepared and kicked major butt! It was also so amazing to jam with my great friend Tim Owens live again, he sounded perfect every night as I knew he would! Having our good buddy Don Jamieson along opening for us on the road was the perfect fit for our tour, he is freaking hilarious and metal fans love him, every night he had the crowds rolling with his metal comedy and it was so cool having him open up for us every night!
There are tons of videos on Youtube from our tour if you’d like to check them out, (Thanks to all of the fans who’ve posted videos!) Here are some links:
There are lots of other cool videos on Youtube if you search under “Charred Walls of the Damned Live”
There are also plenty of great photos from our tour (Thanks to all of the fans who posted pics of us!) Here are some links:
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Photos by Mitchell Damien Maurer Live in New York City: Facebook.com/...
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Here’s a review of Charred Walls of the Damned’s first live show ever in Chicago: MetalUnderground.com/...
I’m super psyched to announce that I will be back again hosting the 2010 Hixonfest! It’s Friday August 27th in New York City at the Ace of Clubs AceofClubsNYC.com The Hixon played with Charred Walls of the Damned in NYC and West Chester, PA and they were incredible as always and I’m honored to be back hosting Hixonfest this year! Check back here for updates and you can also go to: TheHixon.com
I’ve also done some interviews recently which you can check out here:
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I wanna give a huge thank you to the local magazine where I live in Queens, LIC Magazine, for putting me on the cover!!! I don’t think the interview is online yet but if you’re in the Queens area you can pick the magazine up at your local deli or supermarket.
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Tim Owens and I did an interview on our good friend Pauli Z’s Podcast recently where we talked about two of our favorite subjects, Heavy Metal and Food! You can check it out here (Episode 33): ThePauliezShow.com
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There’s an awesome new video from the Charred Walls of the Damned CD Release party in New York City that’s up now at Metal Blade TV! You can check it out here: MetalBlade.tv/...
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There’s a killer new horror movie that I’m in that’s now available on DVD titled “Lights Camera Dead”. You can purchase it here: Amazon.com/...
The Charred Walls of the Damned album will be available at the end of this month on Vinyl!! I’m so psyched that our album is going to be out on vinyl, vinyl is so metal! I will have info on how to pre-order the Charred Walls of the Damned album on vinyl very soon!
We’re also getting ready to open the Charred Walls of the Damned online store where you can purchase Charred Walls of the Damned tshirts and other goodies! I’ll have info on that very soon as well!
Well, I think that pretty much covers everything for now! Until next time, keep it Metal!
-Richard Christy
June 21, 2010 RICHARD VIDEO DISCUSSING & DEMONSTRATING NEW GEAR FOR THE TOUR, PLUS RICHARD'S NEW CWOTD DRUMSTICKS!
Hey Everybody, well it's a little over a week away till the July 1st start of the first ever Charred Walls of the Damned tour! It is going to be so awesome and I can't wait to play our album live for all of the fans! We'll have plenty of surprises too and it's going to be a blast having our great friend Don Jamieson along for the ride! For tickets just click on the links for each city here on the front page of my site.
I've been pounding away every day in the rehearsal room preparing for the tour and I'm very proud to say that I am now working with the amazing drum company DDrum! I have a brand new 5 piece kit in the Dominion Ash series and I couldn't be happier with the way these drums look and the way they sound! The finish is a beautiful wood grain orange lacquer with black hardware (lugs and hoops) and I call it my Halloween kit because that's my favorite holiday and orange/black are my favorite colors, orange and black is also my high school colors for the Uniontown Eagles back in Kansas! It's an honor to be a DDrum artist along with some of my favorite metal drummers like Vinnie Paul, Dave Lombardo, and Robert Sweet!
I just made a brand new video with my good buddy Tony Maggiolino from the Drummer's Collective in NYC where I discuss and demonstrate all of my gear including my new DDrums, my Sabian cymbals, my new Axis A21 Laser Double Pedal, my Fatback 3A Vater Drumsticks, my Aquarian Drumheads, and my Gator drum cases; all of the gear I will be using on the July 2010 Charred Walls of the Damned Tour! You can see the video here: Youtube.com/...
For the July tour we will have an exclusive, custom full color pair of Charred Walls of the Damned Vater drumsticks for sale! These have been made exclusively for our tour and they look awesome! The sticks feature the band logo, album cover artwork, and my signature. Here are a few pictures of the sticks!
I also have a lot of pictures with my gear which I will post in the photos section here on the site.
I've also been doing a lot of interviews to promote our upcoming tour, here are some of them:
Interview with Richard Christy on MetalMessiahRadio.com Thursday June 24th 9pm-11pm EST.
The Right To Rock Podcast Dio Tribute show with guest Richard Christy among others TheRightToRock.com/...
I will also be doing plenty of tour updates at the Official Charred Walls of the Damned Twitter page Twitter.com/cwotd and my Facebook Fan Page Facebook.com/...
I'll have plenty more cool news about our tour in the coming days and I hope to see you all out on the road!!!!! It's going to be a very METAL summer!!!!! Take Care!!!!!!
- Richard Christy
June 1, 2010 POWERMAD COVER ON iTUNES, ALSO REVIEW, INTERVIEW, THANK YOU, & CONDOLENCE Well, there’s a lot of things happening with Charred Walls of the Damned and various other goings-ons so I’ll get right to it!
First off, I was so psyched to open this week’s Time Out New York magazine and see that the Charred Walls of the Damned show on July 8th at the Gramercy Theater is one of their picks for summer concerts to see in New York! Here’s a link to the article: NewYork.TimeOut.cm/...
Tickets are available now for all Charred Walls of the Damned shows this July and you can purchase tickets by clicking each city here on the Calendar on the front page of the site.
I’m really excited to announce that Charred Walls of the Damned’s version of the Powermad classic “Nice Dreams” which was previously only available as a Japanese bonus track is now available on Itunes! I've been a huge Powermad fan since I first heard the classic album Absolute Power back in 1989. The song "Nice Dreams" has always been one of my favorite metal songs and I thought it was the perfect cover song for this band, a great way to showcase what an amazing lead guitar player Jason Suecof is, and a great way to pay tribute to one of my favorite underground metal bands. Hopefully some fans who aren't familiar with Powermad will hear this song and discover this great thrash metal band, and hopefully Powermad fans will enjoy hearing our take on the classic song "Nice Dreams". We will be playing it live on tour too! Here’s a link to the “Nice Dreams” single on iTtunes: iTunes.Apple.com/...
I recently did a really fun interview with Michael Melchor of the Orlando Rock Music Examiner, you can check it out in 2 parts here:
- Examiner.com/part-1...
- Examiner.com/part-2...
I want to give a HUGE thank you to the guys in Coheed and Cambria and all their crew for such an amazing time in Philadelphia at their two shows at the Electric Factory recently. I introduced the band on the Saturday night show which you can see here: YouTube.com/...
Coheed also played my favorite song ever “The Crowing” at the Saturday night Philly show and dedicated it to me!!! I totally freaked! I don’t think I’ve ever banged my head that hard, my neck is still killing me! When they went into the ending climax part of the song I literally think my whole body went into spasms, I really went insane! If you want to hear how incredible this song sounds when Coheed plays it live you can go here: YouTube.com/...
I also saw Coheed and Cambria in Central Park in New York City this past Wednesday which was also amazing and I took a picture that I think turned out really cool, it looks like something right out of an alien movie!
I also wanna thank my buddy Jimmy Duff at the most awesome heavy metal bar on the planet Duff’s Brooklyn for putting the Charred Walls of the Damned and Death logos on their new poster! The poster is totally awesome and whenever you’re in New York City you have to visit Duff’s! They have the heaviest jukebox ever and a great, headbanging crowd of really cool people!
There’s a new Decibel magazine out now with my monthly article “Richard Christy’s Horrorscope” featuring the great horror flick Hatchet. DecibelMagazine.com/...
There is an album coming out June 8th that you MUST hear if you love heavy metal like me. It is the new Nevermore album 'The Obsidian Conspirac'y and it is a masterpiece! Nevermore’s album Dead Heart in a Dead World was my favorite album of the 2000’s so needless to say I had very high expectations of this album and I’m very happy to say this album exceeds my expectations! I wrote a review for it for the website Metal-Army.com which you can check out here: Metal-Army.com/...
Lastly, It’s been a very sad time lately in the world of metal with the loss of several great metal icons. I posted some thoughts on my Facebook page and I thought I would also share them here.
My heart goes out to the guys in Slipknot and Paul Gray’s family. What a sad day. I’ve known Paul and many of the Slipknot guys since 1993 when all of our old bands used to do death metal shows together in Des Moines. For the past 11 years it has made me so proud to see what a massive force in music they’ve become. I’m so proud of what Paul's accomplished and I’ll never forget what a great guy he was. RIP Paul Gray.
RIP Ronnie James Dio the Voice of Heavy Metal and one of the nicest guys I've ever met. Your music will live on forever. Crank up some Holy Diver to celebrate a true metal legend!
Richard Christy
May 14, 2010 CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED CONFIRM FIRST TOUR EVER! Richard Christy's Charred Walls Of The Damnedis hitting the road! Fans will FINALLY have the chance to watch Richard Christy and Tim "Ripper" Owens perform the songs from Charred Walls Of The Damned's debut album live this July. They'll be touring from Chicago, through Canada and up to Worcester, MA for a massive show with Dream Theater! The tour will also feature comedian Don Jamieson from VH1 Classic's "That Metal Show" (DonJamieson.com).
A limited number of VIP tickets will be available. The VIP ticket includes a meet and greet with Charred Walls Of The Damned, a Limited edition poster to be signed by the band, a limited edition EXCLUSIVE t-shirt, and you will also be allowed to bring any other personal items to have the guys from the band sign!
Richard Christy talks about the tour:
"I am Soooooooooooooo pumped to get out on the road and blast some heavy metal with Charred Walls of the Damned this summer! Tim "Ripper" Owens and I are beyond excited about this tour! The response to our debut album has been so amazing and I think people are going to be blown away when they hear these songs live! I'm sweating my buns off in the rehearsal room every day getting tighter and tighter on our songs so that we will be absolutely blistering when we get out on the road in July! Steve DiGiorgio and Jason Suecof have prior commitments and won't be able to join us on this tour but we have the incredible musicians John Comprix (Beyond Fear, Ringworm) on guitar, Dennis Hayes (Beyond Fear, ex-Iced Earth) on bass, and Matt Sorg (Ringworm) on guitar joining Charred Walls of the Damned for this tour! We'll be playing our debut album in full and we'll have plenty more surprises as well! Joining us as host of the tour and also doing stand up at each show will be the hilarious comedian and carrier of the heavy metal torch, Don Jamieson from VH1's That Metal Show! I've known Don for many years and I'm so psyched to have him as part of this tour! Coming soon we'll have more big announcements about the tour including opening bands in each market and other cool surprises! So get ready to raise your fists and bang your heads with Charred Walls of the Damned this summer! See you on tour!"
Tim "Ripper" Owens adds:
"Man I really look forward to this short run of shows, just going out with some friends and playing in front of some of the best fans around. And watching Don every night just tops it off!!! See you all on the road!"
Watch Charred Walls Of The Damned videos on MetalBlade.tv, including the Ghost Town music video as well as Richard and Owen's interview on the Eddie Trunk show on Sirius XM's The Boneyard. Check out those videos and more now on MetalBlade.tv!
Richard Christy
May 11, 2010 NEW RICHARD CHRISTY DRUMMING VIDEO, DEATH CATALOG AVAILABLE ON iTUNES!
Howdy Everyone,
First off, I’m so excited to be featured in the current issue of Modern Drummer magazine on newsstands now! This is a magazine that I’ve read religiously since I first started playing drums at age 10 so it is definitely an honor to be a part of this magazine!
I’m also psyched to announce that an exclusive drumming video that I recently did for Modern Drummer is now available on the Modern Drummer website here: ModernDrummer.com
There’s also a really cool feature on the Modern Drummer website which details my Top 10 alltime favorite drumming albums and also features some very rare pictures of me drumming back when I was a youngin’ in Kansas and some really cool pics from the studio recording the Death, Control Denied, and Burning Inside albums! Here’s a link to that article: ModernDrummer.com
I’m also really excited to announce that all of the classic Death albums including the album “The Sound Of Perseverance” which I played drums on, are now available on Itunes for the first time through Relapse Records! Relapse records is also rereleasing the first Control Denied album “The Fragile Art Of Existence” very soon with tons of cool bonus stuff! Relapse will also be releasing the long awaited second Control Denied album “When Man and Machine Collide” which myself, the Schuldiner family, and all of the other Control Denied guys are super psyched about finishing! As a drummer and musician, to be able to say that I was in a band with my friend and musical genius Chuck Schuldiner is the ultimate honor, and I’m so happy that all of Chuck’s music is now available digitally and that we’ll soon be able to release Chuck’s final work. For all Death and Control Denied information you can visit: EmptyWords.org and Relapse.com
Well, that’s about it for now, I have some very awesome Charred Walls of the Damned news coming up very soon! Until then, take care and keep it Metal!!!!
Richard Christy
April 19, 2010 BEST BUY STORES WITH CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED IN STOCK!
April 13, 2010 FIRST CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED LIVE SHOW ANNOUNCED!
As I watch my 5th favorite movie of all time John Carpenter's "Prince of Darkness" (In HD on FIOS Cinemax On Demand which rules because it's not out on Blu Ray yet!) I have some really exciting news to announce, the first of many upcoming Charred Walls of the Damned live shows! We will be opening for the legendary Dream Theater on Saturday July 10th at the Palladium in Worcester, MA! It's such an honor to play with one of my favorite bands and to share the stage with one of my drum idols Mike Portnoy! This is only the first of many Charred Walls of the Damned live shows that we will be announcing very soon at RichardChristy.com and CharredWallsoftheDamned.com!
Also, tomorrow is a big day for me and all of my fellow Coheed and Cambria fans because it's the release date for their new album Year of the Black Rainbow! I just got my deluxe box set in the mail and it is awesome! The new album is incredible and you should definitely check it out! I recently filmed a bunch of videos with my buddy Matt Pinfield where we discuss the new Coheed album, you can get more info over at CoheedandCambria.com, the newest video with us was just posted at Maxim.com and the videos are also featured on many other websites.
I also want to give a huge thanks to Chad Brandolini and all of my friends over at Vater Percussion. They make the most amazing drumsticks ever and I've been using their products for many years now. They surprised me the other day by sending me a box of Custom Richard Christy "Charred Walls of the Damned" labeled drumsticks! They said if they get enough interest they might even make some available to the public which is super cool!
I also have an article in the legendary drumming magazine Modern Drummer coming out later this month which is a massive honor for me, I've been reading that magazine religiously since I was 10 years old! I'll have more info on that very soon!
Well I think that's all for now, take care everybody and Keep It Metal!
Richard Christy
March 22, 2010 THAT METAL SHOW, VINTAGE VINYL SIGNING, DUFF'S BIRTHDAY BASH, CHARRED WALLS ARTWORK
Well I have a ton of cool things to get to in this update so I’ll get right to it!
First off, I hope to see everyone this Saturday at my Charred Walls of the Damned album signing at Vintage Vinyl in Fords, NJ. The signing will start around 1pm and I look forward to hanging out, signing some albums, and talking some metal with my fellow friends and metalheads! For all the info you can go to VVinyl.com
I want to give a huge thank you to everybody at one of my all time favorite TV shows That Metal Show! I am a guest on this weeks episode along with my good friend Rudy Sarzo and I’m so psyched to be on this show because it rules and I’m a huge fan! I’ve seen every episode ever of That Metal Show and I love it. My episode will be re-airing all week on VH1 Classic so make sure you check your local guide to see when it’s on, it was a lot of fun to do and I’m honored to be a part of such a cool metal show! You can also check out video of my interview here: VH1Classic.com/...
If you’re in the New York City area the night of Saturday April 3rd, my favorite bar Duff’s Brooklyn will be throwing me a heavy metal birthday bash featuring one of my favorite metal bands The Hixon! It will definitely be a night to bang your head, throw back some brews and have a blast! If you are a metalhead like me then you have to check out Duff’s, it is the most metal bar EVER! I can’t wait to party with Jimmy Duff, Tomas, The Hixon and all of my fellow metalheads and Duff’s regulars on Saturday April 3rd! For all the info you can go here: DuffsBrooklyn.com/
I want to let everybody know that I’ve posted the full artwork for the Charred Walls of the Damned album here at RichardChristy.com. I love this artwork so much and the incredible artist Chet Zar did such an amazing job. I wanted to post the full album art here so you can see the full detail of the album art in all of its heavy metal glory! I’m really hoping that we’ll be able to release the Charred Walls of the Damned album on vinyl sometime in the future because this artwork would look killer on vinyl, but until then you can check it out here! You can also go to ChetZar.com for more info on the super talented artist Chet Zar.
Here are a few cool Charred Walls of the Damned reviews and interviews:
If you live in the Columbus, Ohio area this Saturday March 27th and Sunday March 28th there is a really awesome concert happening there. It is a befefit show for my friend and bandmate Chuck Schuldiner of the band Death who passed away in 2001. The proceeds will go to Chuck’s family to help pay for medical bills associated with Chuck’s treatment and passing. There are tons of great metal bands playing and it will be a great way to pay tribute to the legendary Chuck Schuldiner and his music. For all the info you can go here: Myspace.com/InfernalDeathTribute
Well I think that’s about it for now. Until next time, take care and Keep It Metal!
