1987 proved to be a tougher year to whittle down to just 10 defining thrash metal releases than we had initially anticipated but perseverance was the key and, after much [...]
Overkill‘s 8th album, The Killing Kind, was released on 5th March, 1996. The first Overkill album to feature Joe Comeau (Liege Lord/ ex-Annihilator) and Sebastian [...]
The 1980s were undoubtedly the golden years for shred and shredders in general, with heavy metal guitar techniques developing at lightning speed – ultimately [...]
In hindsight, 1988 would prove to be one of the most important years in the development of progressive metal with established acts embracing ‘the prog’ and new [...]
In 1989, death metal may have been finding its feet but a few, groundbreaking, releases established the sub-genre as a considerable force to be reckoned with. These are those [...]
This feature is here to highlight just 15 (there are, of course, far more) 80’s American heavy metal classics which we feel deserve far more love…. Griffin – Flight [...]
Thrash is great. Technical thrash is better! To that end, we’ve selected 15 of the greatest technical thrash albums of the 80’s for your delectation. Presented in [...]
1986 has gone down in history as arguably the greatest year in thrash metal but we’ve always held a soft spot for those albums released in 1989; a year in which thrash [...]
Death metal may have conquered the world in the 1990’s but it was spawned in the 1980’s and it shook the metal world with its uncompromising stance on how [...]
Continuing in the vein of our under-appreciated UK, U.S & German thrash features and our under-appreciated American death metal features, Worship Metal now casts its [...]