thrash
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Toxic Waste by Municipal Waste / Toxic Holocaust Appropriately titled Toxic Waste, Toxic Holocaust and Municipal Waste have a new split out via Tank Crimes. It’s totally downloadable and free on Bandcamp. Woot! If there are two groups to check out in this new era of bands keeping thrash alive,
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On Kreator’s 13th studio album, the band starts employing more melody, harmony, and righteous chord progressions with mixed results. WATCH THE REVIEW
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On the band’s sophomore album, Black Breath combines various strains of punk and metal for one of the most abrasive headbanging experiences of 2012. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Thrash metal has a surprisingly large amount of its older acts still alive and kicking. Overkill just released a new album, and it wasn’t too long ago that Megadeth has a new release, too. Plus, there’s always the rest of the “Big Four” to take account of. Between
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Another track drops from the new Goatwhore album, which came out this week on Metal Blade Records. “When Steel and Bone Meet” has some strong thrash riffage, and vocals that cut like the steel mentioned in the song’s title. While it doesn’t contain a whole lot of detail
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On their latest album, Oakland’s Ghoul offers a gory and sorta hilarious set of tracks that feel like extreme metal’s equivalent to a Toxic Avenger movie. WATCH THE REVIEW
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California’s Ghoul is a metal outfit I’m starting to admire for two reasons. First off, their music offers a pretty nice blend of death metal and thrash metal. Nice! But what’s also interesting about this group is that they manage to reinforce just about every metal stereotype
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“Into Oblivion” “As Dawn Breaks” Sweden’s Entrench is plays a raw, aggressive, unadulterated breed of thrash metal that was lost in translation as the genre evolved over the decades. This band’s take on thrash really is pure. They combine it with nothing at all–not even modern production
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Untitled (FALSE) by FALSE American metal outfit FALSE has dropped its debut album on Gilead Media this month. The album contains two ambitious black metal opuses that are both loaded with sinister melodies and some great, airy synthesizers, too. The production is pretty decent, and the vocals are fierce; but
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Untitled (FALSE) by FALSE American metal outfit FALSE has dropped its debut album on Gilead Media this month. The album contains two ambitious black metal opuses that are both loaded with sinister melodies and some great, airy synthesizers, too. The production is pretty decent, and the vocals are fierce; but
