Ex-ICED EARTH drummer Richard Christy has issued the following update:

"Hey Everybody, wanted to let you know that a new interview I did with an awesome horror movie website called killerreviews.com is up, click on the here to check it out.

I also recently played drums on a cool show called Talking Metal on FUSE. The guys I jammed with were really cool and the show turned out awesome! We jammed on SLAYER's 'South Of Heaven' and BLACK SABBATH's 'Paranoid'! Check them out below.

I also recently went snowboarding for the first time in Colorado which was a freaking blast! On the plane ride to Denver I was jamming on some Heavy Metal on my ipod and decided to write a blog about my lifelong love for Heavy Metal! It may be a little rambling because I was drinking at the time but if you love heavy metal too then you might enjoy this, here it is:

For some reason I feel compelled to write about my most metal day; Thursday, February 28. My day started out at 4am walking to work listening to the masterpiece album With Oden On our side by AMON AMARTH on my Ipod while walking to work in Manhattan. My metal day continued at about 3pm when I ran into the legendary guitarist Nick

Bowcott of GRIM REAPER. I've been a Grim Reaper fan since the tender age of 10 when I first heard 'See You in Hell'. I also had Mirrors of the amazing album covers of See You In Hell, Fear No Evil, and Rock You To Hell hung up in my bedroom courtesy of the dart and balloon game at the Bourbon County fair in KS where the prize for popping three balloons with darts was a kick ass metal mirror. Needless to say I was stoked to see Nick who's a super cool guy, and I jammed Grim Reaper on my Ipod on the flight to Denver. Another band I jammed on my Ipod on my flight was the mighty IRON MAIDEN who I'm going to see in concert in two weeks in NJ. To say that I'm looking forward to this concert is a major understatement. I first heard Live After Death when I was 11 years old and it changed my life. When I started drumming at the age of 10 the first albums I practised to were VAN HALEN - 1984, QUIET RIOT - Metal Health, TWISTED SISTER - Stay Hungry and Iron Maiden - Live After Death. When I was 12 years old Iron Maiden's Somewhere In Time came out and I literally spent about six months learning the first hit hat and kick drum beat from the beginning of Wasted Years. To this day I still have a hard time playing it. I tip my Viking Helmet to the mighty Nicko McBrain, a drumming genius. I'm riding on a party bus to the Maiden concert with my great friends from the awesome metal bar Duffs in Brooklyn, NY. I've already planned to be in bed on March 15 and 16 because I'm sure I'll be out of commission due to massive headbanging. I'm 33 years old and my poor neck doesn't hold up like it used to! Well now I'm still on the plane to Denver writing this blog on my Treo and I'm currently listening to the great band RIOT's classic 1997 album Inishmore. If you are a metal fan then you must own this album! It is a metal classic and one of the best albums of the 1990s. My good friend Bobby Jarzombek plays drums on the album and he is a drumming monster! The last song, an instrumental entitled Inishmore is to say the least, a Metal Masterpiece. Well, to wrap things up, I want to let all U metal heads out there know that metal is alive and well in 2008. There are so many great tours coming up, including Gigantour which is gonna be awesome! And so many great albums coming out including my friends CHILDREN OF BODOM's new album which is gonna rule! I can't wait for the WARREL DANE solo album too!"

'South Of Heaven':

'Paranoid'