Published on June 21st, 2010 by The Editor
Solace take the Small Stone staple of stoner riffola and spice it up with a generous pinches of thrash and hardcore on their fifth studio album, A.D.
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Tags: A.D., hardcore, heavy metal, riff rock, Solace, stoner, thrash
Published on March 17th, 2010 by The Editor
Montreal retro-rockers Priestess bring the proto-thrash riffola and seventies melodics back to heavy metal on their second album, Prior To The Fire.
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Tags: heavy metal, Priestess, Prior To The Fire, retro, sludge, stoner, thrash
Published on November 11th, 2009 by The Editor
Oakland stoners Saviours have been indulging in some Accelerated Living, a slightly cleaner take on their blend of heavy thrashy metal’s aesthetic high points.
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Tags: Accelerated Living, heavy metal, metal, Saviours, sludge, stoner, thrash
Published on October 8th, 2009 by The Editor
Thanks to Obiat, your search for the musical equivalent of a hundred magic mushrooms and a bottle of whiskey is over. Eye Tree Pi; turn on, tune up, space out.
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Tags: ambient, doom, Eye Tree Pi, heavy metal, Obiat, post-metal, psychedelic, sludge
Published on September 9th, 2009 by The Editor
The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal has seemingly never stopped washing over the Midlands; take a trip Into The Volcano with retro-thrashers Last Stop China Town.
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Tags: heavy metal, Into The Volcano, Last Stop China Town, NWOBHM, retro, thrash
Published on June 22nd, 2009 by Duncan Harris
It’s difficult to go terribly wrong with the Greatest Hits of Black Sabbath… but you’d still be better off investing in the first four albums than this one.
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Tags: Black Sabbath, Greatest Hits, heavy metal, metal, rock, sludge, stoner
Published on May 14th, 2009 by Duncan Harris
Glaswegian thrashers Attica Rage have a passable tune in new single “Dark City”. The Motorhead cover on the B-side, however, doesn’t flatter either band.
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Tags: Attica Rage, Dark City, heavy metal, metal, thrash
Published on March 5th, 2009 by Alex Vagenas
Sweden’s premiere retro-metallers Wolf show they’re still way out in front of the other eighties rock revivalists with Ravenous, their fifth studio album.
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Tags: classic metal, heavy metal, metal, Ravenous, retro, Wolf
Published on February 22nd, 2008 by The Editor
Step Through The Gates Of Hell with Sandhurst metallers Primitai – it’s all fun and games until someone loses a soul.
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Tags: classic metal, fun, heavy metal