There aren’t a lot of bands riding the hype train as effectively as SeeYouSpaceCowboy in 2019. Their first record of the year was a collection of odds and sods that happened to fucking slap.
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Some record labels become synonymous with quality. They build a back catalogue so strong that, when they put something new out, you trust that it will hit the spot. Think Roadrunner Records in the 1990s.
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Sometimes I just want to listen to thrash metal. Typically that’s what one of my favourite European bands, Suicidal Angels, deliver.
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Slipknot burst into the world with a spotless three-album run between 1999 and 2004. Albums four and five, while both have their own substance and virtues, emerged from different parts of the Slipknot psyche.
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There aren’t many bands around at the moment that excite me more than Violent Life Violent Death.
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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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If you were picking one band to tackle the clusterfuck that is planet earth in 2019, Petrol Girls would be more than a solid shout.
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We’re spoiled for choice when it comes to expansive, exquisite and downright interesting music these days. Hell, we’ve been spoiled for choice when it just comes to straight-up good stuff of late.
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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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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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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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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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