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 January 21st, 2010 by The Editor
Until We Are Outnumbered sees Danish bruisers The Kandidate combine the simple and punchy elements of thrash and hardcore to neck-shattering contemporary effect.
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Tags: hardcore, metal, The Kandidate, thrash, Until We Are Outnumbered
Published on November 25th, 2009 by The Editor
Gibraltar-born nu-metal survivors Breed 77 deliver their fifth album, Insects; the music is pretty decent, though the lyrics are somewhat lacking.
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Tags: Breed 77, Insects, metal, nu-metal, 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 6th, 2009 by The Editor
Paradise Lost invented and ruled a genre, and then seemingly wandered away. Now they’re back for the goth-metal crown with Faith Divides Us, Death Unites Us.
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Tags: doom, Faith Divides Us Death Unites Us, goth, gothic metal, metal, Paradise Lost, thrash
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 August 13th, 2009 by The Editor
Ludicrous levels of technical skill and complex songwriting are the order of the day on In the Shadow of Gods, a homegrown extreme metal début from No Consequence.
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Tags: extreme, In the Shadow of Gods, metal, metalcore, No Consequence, technical, thrash
Published on July 15th, 2009 by Duncan Harris
VR shows that dreadfully-named retro-rockers Fury UK have got the stylistic licks, er, licked. Shame about the massively cliched songs, though.
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Tags: cheese, Fury UK, metal, NWOBHM, retro, thrash, VR
Published on June 26th, 2009 by The Editor
From some Hertfordshire heroin-pit (their words, not mine) come UK metalcore bruisers Scar My Eyes; let’s hope they bring their producer with them on tour.
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Tags: grind, hardcore, metal, metalcore, Scar My Eyes, This Machine..., thrash
Published on June 11th, 2009 by Jasper Tandy
German thrashers Grantig – it means “angry”, apparently – hide quality thrash riffage behind monotonous gravelly vocals on label debut Medizin.
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Tags: Grantig, Medizin, metal, thrash