Another year almost over and another end of year list! Well this one’s for the thrashers and while The Big 4 were relatively quiet (Slayer withstanding), the [...]
Okay, so you wake up one day and find yourself in a Grindcore band. You glance at the calendar and go: “Shit! It’s 2015 and my band grinds like it’s 1987.” Tough [...]
Picking up where Parts 1 and 2 of our Under-Appreciated Classics Of American Thrash Metal left off, we have selected another 6 unsung classics of American thrash that are [...]
Take Savatage, Nevermore, Iced Earth, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Iron Maiden, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin and try and imagine a glorious mix of all those influences and [...]
Common opinion has it that the 90’s were considerably tough for hard rock and metal bands and to a certain degree that statement rings true. The rise of grunge and the [...]
Death/Doom, the bastard son of death metal and, well, doom metal first reared it’s head in the late 80’s/early 90’s when the likes of Dream Death, Winter [...]
Brutal Slam/Death Metal as heavy on the rib-ticklers as it is the grindingly ferocious breakdowns, Scotland’s Party Cannon swap confetti and ticker-tape for [...]
Annihilator‘s history is chequered with disappearing / reappearing frontmen over the bands 17 albums and Jeff himself has now handled lead vocals on 6 of ’em. [...]
11 years ago today, the Metal world lost one of it’s leading lights. Tomas Börje Forsberg, better known as Bathory’s Quorthon, sadly passed away aged just 38 but [...]