Formed in Reno Nevada in 2016, From The Ruins are a Thrash Metal quintet of some repute. Having torn up the West Coast with a sound which is built around the machine gun riffing of Chuck Reyome and Scott Schlingheyde, they cite influences in Death Angel, Kreator and Slayer as well as some of the melody and progressive tendencies of early
July 1988 saw the release of the hilariously titled “Frolic Through The Park“, the sophomore album from San Francisco bay area Thrash Metallers Death Angel. It’s earned the band the leap to major label Geffen Records and being a more diverse album that the bands debut including a cover of “Cold Gin” by Kiss seemed
Produced, Engineered and Mixed by Josh Wilbur (Suicide Silence, KoRn, Varials) and Mastered by Ted Jensen (Death Angel, Carnifex, Megadeth), the ninth studio album from Orlando Florida’s Trivium has been a highly anticipated affair. That is in part due to the high quality output of the bands previous albums but also with guitarist and vocalist
Isn’t it great when a long established favourite band brings out a new album that defies the odds and is a step up? May 2019 saw Death Angel land “Humanicide” via Nuclear Blast and it probably earned them their place on The Bay Area Strikes Back Tour. From the Helsinki Finland stop on 10th February,
After yesterday’s shinny new single from Testament, Mark Osegueda from Death Angel and Zetro from Exodus sat down to talk about their upcoming “Bay Area Strikes Back” European Tour trek together. US fans are already demanding the trio from the Big Four subs bench bring this line-up stateside and with some new material from all three
Reportedly with a new album done and dusted and ready for a 3rd of April release, Big Ten Thrash Gods Testament will be joined by Exodus and Death Angel in the preceding “The Bay Area Strikes Back” Tour. That might mean that fans will get treated to a new song in the set list, though
Cover Killer Nation might be hanging up his boots in the New Year but he sure as hell is going out in style. In this new I’m depth analysis he looks at the Big Four of Thrash that is Slayer, Metallica, Anthrax and Megadeth and explains why they could in fact be expanded to become
Baton Rouge, Louisiana quartet Deface have been around longer than you might think. Their debut “Scars” was actually originally released in 2001 though it appears remastered by Chad Kelly in 2018. Line-up changes between then and now probably aren’t the only reason that it’s taken 18 years to release sophomore album “Born Of Hatred” with
It might be labelled as an EP but at 35 minutes it’s 6 tracks are longer than most albums these days so Lafayeffe Louisiana based Arbre Mort (or “Dead Tree”) who are formed from the ashes of various area Extreme Metal bands shouldn’t be pigeon holed. This is the bands sophomore release following their 2016
Pro-Shot on their European Tour in Poland on 3rd June, here’s drum cam footage of Death Angel sticksman Will Caroll hammering out “The Moth”! They’ll be joining Testament and Exodus on The Bay Strikes Back Tour in 2020 which will have dates upon our shores in March.
