It’s been a couple of months since thrash really caught my eye and delivered something that I could really sink my teeth into that wasn’t just a blur of speed and unfocused aggression. Typically, that doesn’t mix well so I … Continue reading Insurrection – Circles of Despair
Hardcore has long been a sound that’s intrigued me, but the vast majority of the time it only really catches my eye when it’s mixed with metal as it’s that extra edge that really gets me going when it’s done … Continue reading Ringworm – Death Becomes My Voice
It’s throughout the many realms that metal has come to inhabit that there has been one corner, in particular, that’s much darker and far more malevolent on a spiritual level that not many other bands can replicate. We’ve visited that … Continue reading LTM – Shells
There have been many occasions where I’ve gone to sit down and just to an album with the simple goal of just letting the album taking me wherever the fuck it pleases. And to be completely honest, I didn’t think … Continue reading Ketzer – Cloud Collider
I’m far from any sort of historian but I feel it’s safe to say that outside of the original sound of heavy metal itself, it’s thrash that has been one of the longest reigning styles of all of metal to … Continue reading Exumer – Hostile Defiance
Whenever I venture into the blistering world of blackened thrash, I tend to go in with not much in terms of expectations other than speed and immense aggression. That’s something that is very natural for a style such as this, … Continue reading Frosthelm – Pyrrhic
Thrash metal is really the sort of thing that if you’re going to do it, you really have to go all in because otherwise the material isn’t going to have the right power behind it and there just won’t be … Continue reading Black Mass – Warlust
Whenever I sit down and listen to any form of thrash, I want something that really buries itself deep into your brain and simply festers to where you can’t stop listening to it for hours and hours. Riffs aren’t mandatory … Continue reading Warfist – Grünberger
Creating thrash metal can often be ridiculed as being easy and something that could simply be pulled out of nowhere if it’s in the right hands, and it’s not hard to see why someone might think that. The thrash scene … Continue reading Eyes of the Living – War On Dead – More Dead
After doing these reviews for almost five years at this point, it goes without saying that I’ve been lucky enough to hear an absolute menagerie of bands from all over doing all sorts of different styles. When the stars align … Continue reading Chaoshorde / Satan’s Acolytes – Satanic Hordes
