Review: Violent Life Violent Death – Sadness Rains
There aren’t many bands around at the moment that excite me more than Violent Life Violent Death.
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Metallica’s St Anger on trial: the prosecution
There are certain rites of passage that every Metallica fan experiences regardless of when they discover the greatest metal band there’s ever been.
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Review: Death Angel – Humanicide
You’ve heard of the Big Four of thrash metal. Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax. Four names scratched into history without dispute.
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Review: Employed To Serve – Eternal Forward Motion
Employed To Serve go harder. You know that. I know that. They know that. So it’s no surprise that album number three totally slams.
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Review: Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes – End Of Suffering
When I read a review of this album that compared Frank Carter to Ed Sheeran’s evil twin brother you could have poached an egg in my piss.
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Review: Otoboke Beaver – Itekoma Hits
There are some wonderful bands in and from Japan. But too many of those who make a mark in the western mainstream conform to the western mainstream’s dying genres, offering nothing of their homeland.
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Review: Chokehold – With This Thread I Hold On
Chokehold’s last full-length album was released in 1995 so it’s fair to say I was a little young to have a grasp of Canadian hardcore last time they put out a record.
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Me, Brand New and separating art from its creators
In the summer of 2017 the fifth album from Brand New finally arrived. It was, even then, expected to be their last, and its critical and commercial success reflected the love the band enjoyed all over the world.
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Review: Blood Command – Return Of The Arsonist
Blood Command came into my world in 2012 with their phenomenal second album. Since then I’ve seen them play a superb Nottingham show in front of next to nobody, as well as exploring their prolific recorded output.
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Revisiting Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying? by Megadeth
The early days of Megadeth, the road from Dave Mustaine’s departure from Metallica to his new band’s critical acclaim in the mid-1980s, are well established in thrash metal lore.
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Podcast special: Palm Reader interview
Palm Reader have a special place in our hearts. They are a world class band with three tremendous albums to their name, the most recent being 2019’s Album of the Year for This Decay.
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Review: Problem Daughter – Grow Up Trash
Real is an overplayed card in punk rock. Its very beginnings were drenched in authenticity before authenticity became a thing, and now it’s a prerequisite, a harbinger of credibility.
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