NEWS: Onslaught remind us why Lemmy was a master!

As they celebrate the 40th anniversary of their debut album “Power From Hell“, United Kingdom Thrash Metal veterans Onslaught have inked a deal with Reigning Phoenix Music to prolong their stay of execution. Their first piece of work in partnership with the label will be a double album of no less than twenty two tracks titled “Origins Of Aggression” to be unveiled on 23rd May that’s split clean in half. Re-recordings from the bands early days between 1982 and 1989 will make up the first record while the second will comprise Punk and Metal covers, the first of which to arrive being a thrashed up rendition of “Iron Fist” by Motorhead!

Guitarist Nige Rockett comments: “What true metalhead doesn’t love MOTÖRHEAD? And we weren’t any different. In the early beginnings, I was still very much a novice on guitar and it was Lemmy, Phil, and Eddie that really drove our band in the metal direction from our hardcore punk roots. Myself, I actually learnt the whole “Live At Hammersmith” album – including all the solos – and it greatly improved my personal playing and knowledge of the guitar, it was a real learning curve for ONSLAUGHT and we would always jam the tracks at rehearsal and even sometimes live. So, the reason we chose ‘Iron Fist,’ apart from it being one of their heaviest, most aggressive songs, we got to tour with MOTÖRHEAD on the “Orgasmatron” tour in Europe 1987. We arrived at the Zurich venue, the first show for us, just as MOTÖRHEAD were about to start soundcheck. Lemmy struts out on the stage, stamps his foot four times and they crash into ‘Iron Fist’… WTAF… IT BLEW US ALL CLEAN AWAY… I’d never witnessed anything like it and that moment will never be forgotten and changed our lives as a band.”

Alongside the music video for the first single of “Origins Of Aggression” a track listing spelling out what the double album will consist of has also been shared:

Disc 1 (re-recordings from early days 1982-1989)
01. Thermonuclear Devastation Of The
02. Black Horse Of Famine
03. Angels Of Death
04. Power From Hell
05. Metal Forces
06. Let There Be Death
07. Fight With The Beast
08. Thrash Till The Death
09. In Search Of Sanity
10. Shellshock

Disc 2 (covers)
01. Iron Fist [by MOTÖRHEAD]
02. Holiday In Cambodia [by DEAD KENNEDYS]
03. A Look At Tomorrow [by DISCHARGE]
04. U.K. 82 [by THE EXPLOITED]
05. Freewheel Burning [by JUDAS PRIEST]
06. Wardance [by KILLING JOKE]
07. Give Me Fire [by GBH]
08. State Violence State Control [by DISCHARGE]
09. Holidays In The Sun [by SEX PISTOLS]
10. Emotional Blackmail [by UK SUBS]
11. War Pigs [by BLACK SABBATH]
12. Drunk With Power [by DISCHARGE]

You can catch Onslaught pretty much everywhere this year…

21.03 US Houston, TX – Hell’s Heroes
19.04 PT Odemira – Mira Fest

w/ Toranaga Luxera
24.04 UK Aberdeen – Krakatoa
25.04 UK Edinburgh – The Mash House
26.04 UK Glasgow – Audio

w/ Cryptosis
29.05 DE Oldenburg – MTS Records
30.05 DE Wittstock – Metal Power Open Air
31.05 DE Essen – Turock
01.06 BE Diest – Hell
03.06 FR Dijon – La Vapeur
04.06 IT Paderno Dugnano (MI) – Slaughter Club
05.06 IT Bologna – Alchemica Music Club
06.06 AT Vienna – Escape Metalcorner
07.06 DE Hauptmannsgrün – Chronical Moshers
08.06 AT Salzburg – Rockhouse
10.06 DE Stuttgart – Schwarzer Keiler
11.06 DE Aschaffenburg – Colos-Saal
12.06 DE Leipzig – Hellraiser
13.06 PL Byczyna – Black Silesia Festival
14.06.2025 DE Selb – Rockclub Nordbayern
26.07 IT Bolotana – Rock and Bol Metal Fest
23.08 FR Champtoceaux – Barbeuk Metal Fest
29.08 GR Rethymno – Rethymno Rocks
08./09.11 UK Manchester – Damnation Festival
14.11 AU Perth – Rosemount Hotel
15.11 AU Adelaide – Lion Arts Factory
19.11 AU Canberra – The Baso
20.11 AU Sydney – The Underground
21.11 AU Brisbane – Soapbox Brewery
22.11 AU Melbourne – Corner Hotel