English Dogs – Mad Punx & English Dogs 1983 – 1985 (Cherry Red)
My relationship with English Dogs is an odd one. I first heard them at the tail end of my thrash metal phase, and they were just that bit too punky for me at the time. Then…
Crossover
Mass Movement Meets… Excel
In which the sexier half of the middle-aged crew chats to Dan and Shaun from legendary crossover band Excel about the re-issue of their third album ‘Seeking Refuge’ on Southern Lord Records, crossover, Los Angeles…
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Excel to release long-lost album ‘Seeking Refuge’
From the dark alleys and dead ends of Los Angeles, EXCEL have been delivering maximum crossover since crossover first crossed over. Their classic albums Split Image (1987) and The Joke’s On You (1989) remain linchpins of the genre decades after their…
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Ghoul – Noxious Concoctions EP (Tankcrimes)
How may I count the ways I have missed thee Ghoul? In severed heads, rotting limbs, with the howling laments of the undead or diseased and decaying vegetation purloined from freshly laid graves? None of…
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Swarf Damage – S/T (Self)
Thirty seconds in and I began to panic, and thought I’d been caught in some sort of chronal tractor beam and sucked back to Ruthies Inn in 1987, as the pure savagery of the crossed…
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South Wales Hardcore/Crossover Merchants ASIDHARA Return With New E.P
‘Echoes Of The Ancients’ out now on Nuclear Family Records The Cardiff quintet who’ve been making huge waves in the UKHC scene with blistering live shows on the back of their previous E.P ‘Killing Rites’…
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Thrash/Crossover 5 Piece Enforced Drop New Single ‘Starve’
Third full-length, ‘War Remains’, to follow on April 28, 2023 via Century Media Records. On April 28, 2023 Enforced will release their third full-length, War Remains (32 minutes of aggressive, no-frills thrash!), via Century Media…
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Feral State – S/T (Mef House)
It’s taken this Leicester band a while since their first demo back in 2016 to pull together a debut album, and this still includes some of the songs that appeared back then, but it’s been…
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Send More Paramedics – The Final Feast (SMP Records)
How did that old tag-line go? When there’s no room left in Hell, the dead shall walk the Earth? Well, I guess that Hell must have reached capacity, as Mass Movement’s favourite undead Crossover crew,…
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Bay Area crossover thrash group MORDRED unveils music video for ‘Love Of Money’…
The influential San Francisco crossover thrash metal act MORDRED – who this summer will release their first full-length record in over 25 years – has unveiled a music video for “Love of Money,” the latest…
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Beowulf
In the nineties, when the CD, as a carrier for music, really took off, a lot of albums never had a proper vinyl release. It was too expensive or simply not worth it at the…
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Wehrmacht – Biërmacht (Re-Issue) (Hammerheart Records)
Just a year after the original release of Shark Attack, Biërmacht hit… hard! Whereas their debut album didn\’t really care about proper song structures and sounded like a bunch of maniacs having a tantrum over…
