The seasons festivities are well under way with plenty of our favourite alcoholic beverages on the go. So here are five of our go to albums to soothe a savage hangover. After all, everyone loves beer O’clock but after you’ve been on the whiskey as well, the following day might be a bit harder to
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
The 80’s pop cover was turned into a staple of the Nu-Metal era with almost every band landing at least one, Dope with “You Spin Me Right Round” by Dead or Alive, Disturbed with “Shout” by Fears For Fears and of course Limp Bizkit with “Faith” by George Michael to name but three. One classic
Barcelona Spanish Thrash Metal Champions Crisix are on the eve of releasing the first of a series of “Crisix Sessions” albums and have chosen “American Thrash” as the subject matter with 8 classic tracks from the likes of Anthrax, Exodus and Testament getting the full treatment. The album appears via Listenable Records on 8th November
Aside from Testament, Exodus are arguably the other biggest band outside of the Big Four of Thrash, best known for Gary Holt’s incredible guitar work and although they’ve had a myriad of frontmen including Rob Dukes who is the man (“Shovel Headed Kill Machine” enough said!) , probably Steve “Zetro” Souza’s uniquely dry vocals. Although
Including “The Spell Unholy”, “Blood Sacrifice” and “Return of Evil”, here’s a full Pro-Shot set from Brazilian Thrash infused Death Metallers Torture Squad. It was filmed at Kiss Club on 30th August and proceeds the bands Central American Tour with Far Beyond Existence. Their set at this year’s incarnation of Rock In Rio saw the
Big Four and the ones that got away? It’s time for another Riff Off to rival Shred Wars as someone get’s the fickle finger of fate pointed at them for mercilessly plagiarizing someone else’s hard graft and skilled craft… or maybe they just heard it and it entered their brain like a subliminal verse telling
A band that features Matt Hanchuck on guitars, Aaron Randall on vocals (ex-Annihilator), Greg Christian on bass (ex-Testament) and Alex Marquez on drums (Solstice, ex-Malevolent Creation, ex-Cephalic Carnage, etc.) called Wreck-Defy have unleashed their second album “Remnants of Pain” with a lyric video for “Broken Peace”. You know it’s going to be Thrash. Aaron Randall comments: “I’m excited to
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.
Produced by the bands own guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz (The Agony Scene, The Acacia Strain, As I Lay Dying) as perhaps you might expect, Metalcore survivalists Killswitch Engage have returned with their eighth studio album. After some delays due to vocalist Jesse Leech developing some scar tissue on a polyp in his throat that meant three
