METAL OF THE MONTH is a monthly feature that examines just that, a grip of fifteen of the […]
black thrash
TEN FROM THE TOMB is a weekly feature in the form of a themed list devoted to grouping […]
For all of the cumulative atomic payload offered by blackened thrash metal’s youthful excess so little of it […]
Black metal viewed from the panopticon as a deeply faceted entity reveals one of the most widely interpreted […]
Thrash metal itself has let its reigns slack in 2018 while the glorious power of death metal steals […]
Nigh pornographically heightened levels of paganistic pride run through this third album from Meerssen, Netherlands extreme thrashers Bifrost […]
Here I present a grip of the most essential metal-related releases from the month of July in the […]
No matter how hard he tried British polymath Charles Babbage could not best his greatest demons. He excelled […]
When Harald Nævdal (Daemonaz) and Olve Eikemo (Abbath) decided to branch out together with growing interest in black metal […]
Likely inspired by his stint drumming for Deströyer 666 on their ‘Phoenix Rising’ full-length, Nuclear Exterminator (Jarro Raphael) set out along […]
The meteoric blackened strike of Melan Selas‘ epic melodic black/thrash xiphos carved a great fiery slash to my […]
Obsessed with the cruelty and furor of the first wave of black metal and it’s thrash metal forbears […]
The grand differentiation between Aura Noir and the legion of black/thrash bands that cropped up before, and after, […]
Vomitor‘s nearly twenty year history of blackened thrash metal mayhem began as a general wave of the black/thrash […]
Ghoul Cult aka Ghoul-Cult began as a side project comprised of ex-Blot collaborators Kold (who then became Johnny […]
Norwegian occult thrashers Shakma have finally put together a full-length two years after their promising ‘Night of Torment’ […]
These Australian bestial death/black thrashers were at the precipice of something amazing back in 2012 with their black/thrash […]
For all of the Toby Knapp projects I’ve heard over the years from his misguided neoclassical shred albums […]
