Category: Review

  • Blackened Thrash Metal has become one of Thrash’s more popular hybrids over recent years. With bands such as Toxic Holocaust, Skeletonwitch, Aura Noir and Witchery bringing it to prominence in the 2000’s, it has slowly influenced many bands to carry on…

    Green Mantis – Kill The Plague
  • Here’s a great way to start 2021, a brand-new UK Thrash album, Trapped in Purgatory’s “Damned Nation”, is a fine slab of prime metal and just the way to shrug off those January blues. As I mentioned in my review…

    Trapped in Purgatory – Damned Nation
  • Euan unleashes BioWarfare…. will he succeed in wiping out (the) Human Race with these Chilean Thrashers? The albums wastes no time getting to the good stuff. ‘Human Waste’ fires in with the timeless method of one guitar riffing while the…

    BioWarfare – Wiping Out Human Race
  • Paul Hutchings takes on some Teutonic thrash from an old school German Thrash Band you may not of heard of! Founded in Hann, Germany in 1986, Mortal Terror are one of the lesser-known German thrash bands. They have released five…

    Mortal Terror – Bite Of The Underdog
  • Chris Cleo takes a delve into the latest Anaxagor album – Within the realm of extreme metal, there are various bands that borrow elements from both subgenres, but are still seen as belonging solely to one.  The existence of ‘thrashy’…

    Anaxagor – Anaxagor
  • Paul Hutchings takes a journey into the Reworking of Red Methods ‘For The Sick’ Produced by Scott Atkins and featuring guest appearances by Mikee Goodman (SikTh) and Jason Mendonca (Akercoke),For the Sickshould have been the catalyst for Red Method to…

    Red Method–For the Sick-ReWorks
  • Neil Bolton takes a listen to Austrian Groove Thrashers Silius and their latest album! This second full length album for Silius was ready for world consumption by the end of February 2020; the current pandemic managed to claim another scalp…

    Silius -Worship To Extinction
  • Paul Hutchings takes a listen to the upcoming release from this one man black metal project! Crashing waves, a pulsing heartbeat and anthemic chanting; the sound of Dirge I: Grief, the opening segment to this eight-part atmospheric journey into black…

    And now the Owls are Smiling – Dirges
  • We’ve had this ready to go for a few days, but been waiting the official artwork reveal for the single! Gareth takes a listen to a new band with a heritage in Bristol Thrash back in the late 80’s. For…

    Trapped In Purgatory – Demonicide
  • Our man Frank Holby, straps on his warp core and heads into the Omniplasm! Let’s face it, one way or another 2020 has been a terrible year for most of us. Sometimes something comes along that puts a smile on…

    Fullminator – Omniplasm