Canadian thrash may have been left riding the coattails of the US scene in the late 80’s and early 90’s but that doesn’t mean that it wasn’t home to [...]
Anthrax – Persistence Of Time (1990) [USA] All but abandoning the recognisable goofy sense of humour which permeated throughout 1988’s State Of Euphoria, Anthrax [...]
Kreator, Sodom, Destruction and Tankard; the “Big Four” of Teutonic thrash metal. Prime contributors to one of the major scenes of thrash metal in the [...]
No disrespect to Kreator, Destruction, Sodom and Tankard but German thrash has so much more to offer than just Pleasure To Kill, Eternal Devastation, Agent Orange and [...]
We’ve covered the 5 greatest death metal albums of 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1992 and now onto 1993. The year that found death metal continuing on its all-conquering path, [...]
Doom metal, us Brits have always been bloody good at it. We invented it, we morphed it into new shapes and the history of UK doom metal is littered with success stories, of [...]
Picking up where Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 of our Under-Appreciated Classics Of American Thrash Metal features left off, we have selected yet another 6 unsung classics of U.S [...]
In the world of thrash, 2019 was fundamentally about comebacks and reformations, as bands thought to be long consigned to the history books returned to show the world [...]
The Isle Of Man. Not exactly a destination renowned for metal – never mind technically audacious, progressively-minded heavy metal – but that’s the sphere [...]
Considering the UK invented heavy metal, it’s always frustrating to reflect on how ‘seemingly’ unsuccessful we were at thrash metal! Predominantly an American [...]