Art that is eventually lauded as ‘classic’ often meets with hostility and, at first, UK doom legends Cathedral were no exception to this rule! By following up their [...]
Considering the UK invented heavy metal, it’s always frustrating to reflect on how ‘seemingly’ unsuccessful we were at thrash metal! Predominantly an American [...]
Megadeth‘s third album, So Far, So Good… So What! turns 35 years old today and it remains a sure-fire classic of 80s thrash. Of course, being sandwiched in [...]
Saxon are truly one of the great heavy metal bands of all time – and arguably the best traditional metal act operating in Britain today – but when it comes to [...]
With 16 studio albums to choose from (we haven’t included Metal Jukebox or Unarmed in this), whittling down the 5 essential albums from these power metal legends [...]
These Bay Area titans of thrash need no introduction and with 13 exemplary studio albums to choose from, we had a hard time whittling ’em down to – what we [...]
Death metal conquered all in the 1990’s, shaking the metal world with its uncompromising stance on just how ‘heavy’ metal could really be…..and these are the death [...]
When doom metal is too fast for you…. it’s to funeral doom you turn! Presented in alphabetical order as opposed to any kind of ranking…. disEMBOWELMENT – [...]
Our antipodean cousins are hardly renowned for thrash (at least not in the 80’s and early 90’s anyway) but there was some supreme talent lurking down under, [...]
The classics are all well and good but there’s a shit ton of obscure DEATH METAL out there that demands to be heard! To that end, we’ve selected 10 obscure old-school [...]