Tag: News

  • Mat check out the new EP from the boys in Sidewinder, and catches up with drummer and artist Gaz….  If there is one thing that puzzles me about thrash metal, it is that it exists in a state of paradox.…

    Review – Sidewinder – March Of The Eternal Heretic
  • Following the festival’s barnburner first announcement, and the sell-out success of its 2024 edition, Nottingham’s Mangata Festival has announced its second wave of bands for the 2025 edition of the festival. This includes the last of the five headliners, alongside 16 other great acts,…

  • Hutch checks out the new album from Manchester noise terrorists ‘The Machinist’ here’s what he thinks! A blistering combination of industrial death thrash with added blackness greets you when you hit play on this second album from Manchester’s The Machinist. In…

    Review – The Machinist –Contempt for Life
  • Mat checks out the reissue of a 20 year old underground favorite that finally makes it from Bristol to Spotify… Bristol groove metallers, with a thrash  pedigree, remastered their second EP for its twentieth anniversary. 2004, when looking back on it,…

    Review – Fourwaykill – 24 (More) Hours To Die (Reissued/Remastered)
  • Mat Price once again heads to the dome, this time to catch veteran metallers Anvil, and whilst not our normal thrash fair, they are adjacent enough for us to enjoy the riffs!! …. here’s what he thought of the show..…

    Live Review – Anvil – The Dome – 11th October
  • This is great news for one of our favorite new wave thrash bands… great work Listenable!! Listenable is absolutely delighted to announce a multi album deal with CHEMICIDE for the next band’s recordings ,and also reissuing the band’s previous albums…

    News – Chemicide sign with Listenable Records
  • Apologies to the Solitary Boys, this has been sat in my inbox for way too long….. but better late than never as Mat Price checks out the latest release from the UK Thrash Veterans… The Preston pugilists come out swinging…

    Review – Solitary – Embracing Darkness
  • Midlands Extreme Metallers, Ashen Crown have announced a change in their ranks.  After the departure of guitarist Jay Rogers, they faced a huge task in finding a replacement who was a good fit both musically and in personality and immediately…

    News – Ex-Savage Messiah member joins Ashen Crown
  • Well 2020 is almost done and, like most people, I cannot wait for it to be over. Gods favourite band retired at the tail end of last year and he hasn’t taken it well.  However, lets thank the sweet baby…

    Reviewers 2020 Top 5 – John McLachlan