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…
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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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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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Razor – Cycle Of Content (Relapse)
Oh jeez, this takes me back. Towards the tail end of the 80s I couldn’t get enough of thrash metal. Many bands were hitting their absolute prime, and Razor was a light that shone bright with their…
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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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Sacred Reich – Ignorance/Surf Nicaragua/The American Way (Re-Issues) (Metal Blade)
Only the most ardent of fans would have predicted that after a 23-year hiatus, Arizona thrashers Sacred Reich, spurred on by the return of powerhouse drummer Dave Mclain, would make such a triumphant return last…
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Gravehuffer – NecroEclosion (Black Doomba Records)
Some bands make you feel all warm and gushy inside, like you’re floating on a fluffy pink cloud and playing tag with your favourite unicorn while eating rainbow drops and drinking sickly sweet ice cream…
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Vio-Lence launches video for digital single, \”California Uber Alles\”…
Vio-Lence has released a new digital single: \”California Uber Alles\” – a cover version of the Dead Kennedys classic! Vio-Lence comments: \”Being musicians in the Bay Area Thrash Metal scene, Vio-Lence believes it is important to acknowledge the music that had a huge…
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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…
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Sun of the Endless Night – Symbols of Hate and Deceitful Faith (Punishment 18 Records)
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…
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Acid Reign – Anthology 1987 – 2017 (Dissonance Productions)
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…
