Mordred – Volition EP (Self)
When Fool\’s Game (1989) came out I got the idea that something special was brewing in the Bay Area. The pure thrash, influenced by their San Franciscan peers and fellow lunatics, was infused with a…
When Fool\’s Game (1989) came out I got the idea that something special was brewing in the Bay Area. The pure thrash, influenced by their San Franciscan peers and fellow lunatics, was infused with a…
There\’s no need to play straight-up metal when you can have so much more fun creating a style which takes your listeners apart organ by organ and cell by cell. Musically, Black Queen borrow liberally…
Thrash, France, 1986. Normally those three words would tell you everything that you need to know, as there’s not much more to Witches. You get what you expect…. And thoroughly derserve. It would be disrespectful…
There was a time when I would have known all there was to know about Sun of the Endless Night before they’d even finished their first rehearsal. But these days I’m forever playing catch-up and…
Way, way back in the day, somewhere in the shrouded mists of time that learned folk and academic types refer to as the eighties, while still on my thrash journey, I stumbled across a mini-album…
The influence of L.A Thrash titans Slayer, will live long after the last scream from Kerry King’s axe has sailed over an audience of fevered metal fans and if, like me you’d like a lasting…
My lifelong obsession with the underground, obscure and ordinarily inaccessible requires me to satiate my appetite from time to time.I am happy to introduce to you all, the most likely previously unknown to you, late…
Has it really been thirty years* since Acid Reign last released an album? Time has been a lot kinder to the UK’s premier thrashers in those three decades than it has to yours truly. While…
It isn’t exacty a secret that if it wasn’t for Exhorder, Pantera would have just been one of the many big hair, glam metal bands hawking their wares around Texas and the Southern States, playing…
Given their name and the title of their debut album, I expected this crew of Crossover obsessives to deliver a record capable of crushing anything that was foolhardy enough to stand in its path. And…
The last time Sacred Reich released an album, the Twin Towers were still standing, the internet was in its infancy, mobile phones were the playthings of big business folk and the idle rich and The…
The first “Hardcore” record that I heard, and fell in love with, was a Crossover record. I didn’t know it at the time and it was another three or four months before I found out…