The basal inspiration, selfdom, and core ethos of Boston, Massachusetts-based thrash metal trio Black Mass is best summed […]
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An intermittently resuscitated effigy to die-hard blasphemic German thrash metal traditions, Mainz-entrenched quartet Nocturnal were giving us the […]
An island in their own right to start and a tall-standing stone forever since, the Toronto-adjacent legacy of […]
Back after just a few years with a third album of arcane evil speed-metallic riffcraft, there is no […]
By virtue of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal’s applications to punk and the violent births beyond, […]
Hailing from the Basque Country capitol and conjuring a sophisticated earliest form of thrash metal’s Teutonic dance with […]
“Forms without bodies, and impassive air. / Hence to deep Acheron they take their way, / Whose troubled […]
“Ja, mina vänner, varför nu detta som kan synas som en dåres verk och det kan hända att […]
Early Christian-themed extreme metal will essentially take any across-the-board “win” they can get, especially considering some of the […]
“Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ’n’ roll bands for some kind of model for […]
As social media becomes more effective in training and rewarding high conflict personalities into increasingly prominent viral view […]
“All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.” — We pull from Vonnegut’s best […]
Perhaps the most horrifying tradition held onto since the Old Testament’s initial dispersal, the book of Genesis offers […]
A fire-beast unhinged in the jaws of inferno, tending its nestlings via regurgitation of at least six skulls […]
There are two major options for cataloging a historical archive regardless of its caliber. Present the full story […]
Even the most cursory dig through the first wave of underground extreme metal acts in the early 80’s […]
Thrash metal with any reasonable approach to authenticity is not sustainable without some meaningful connection to classic heavy […]
Putting a hardcore punk vocalist in front of a melodic thrash metal band is yet one of the […]
This wasn’t a great year for thrash metal, at least not compared to the overwhelming stream of black, […]
It’ll take about six minutes with San Antonio, Texas based thrashers Aggravator to figure them out and a […]
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