thrash metal

(8/10) End of November the Cavalera brothers kicked-off a European tour. This time the guys didn’t hit the road as the Cavalera Conspiracy. The tour is done as Max & Iggor Cavalera with the main purpose of celebrating the 20th anniversary of a milestone...

Just a few days after Hamburg-based metal icons Helloween played an impressive show in Tilburg it was another German metal legend that delighted Dutch metal fans with excellent songs, covering a time span of more then three decades. Destruction hit the...

(8/10) After having received Witchery's latest longplayer "In His Infernal Majesty's Service" in late November last year I actually expected a successor for 2022. Not that there was any specific reason more than looking on the frequency of Witchery albums...

(8/10) To introduce death metal legend Cannibal Corpse feels like carrying sand to the beach. The quintet belongs to spearhead of a genre that started to grow in the early 90’s. Death metal was almost a kind of counter movement to the upcoming grunge...

(9/10) Jeff Waters and Annihilator are a constant factor in metal since many years. I still can remember the moment when the band's debut blew me away in 1989. The power and the punch that came with "Alice in Hell" was enormous and it's not a big surprise...

(8/10) Stockholm is, at least when it comes to metal music, known for outstanding hardrock and sinister death metal. But there's a thrash scene either and one of the most known bands is Dr. Living Dead!. The group, featuring four doctors (Dr. Rad, Dr....

(7/10) Savage Messiah debut in 2009 with a first release entitled “Insurrection Rising”. In a regular fashion more records have been added to the discography and it’s “Hands of Fate” being longplayer number four in a time span of eight years. Savage Messiah,...

An Australian rock power package stopped in Amsterdam a few days ago, bringing a lot of high voltage and rock’n’roll power to The Netherlands. It was AC/DC’s grandsons Airbourne that are on a current tour throughout Europe, trying to blow away the grayness...

(*/10) Ten years after having shipped “Thrash Anthems” to the record stores it’s German powerhouse Destruction that releases with 'part 2' another chapter of highly successful German metal music. “Thrash Anthems II” was originally meant to be a PledgeMusic...

German thrash brewery Tankard is around since 1982. The band represents the roots of German thrash metal, being part of an era when bands like Kreator and Destruction gained momentum. Completed by Ruhrpott legends Sodom all four band together stand for...

(9/10) Florida-based powerhouse Trivium began their winning streak back in 2003 with the debut, being the starting point of a rise that found a first peak with the sophomore “Ascendancy” and their third longplayer “The Crusade”. Trivium became a big player...

Canadian metal veterans Anvil worked on a new album. The longplayer is entitled "Pounding the Pavement" and will be released on January 19th, 2018 via Steamhammer/SPV. In total it is twelve new metal anthems that will kick-start another metallic year....

(4/10) Here comes another band hailing from Gothenburg – Highrider. The quartet release their debut “Roll for Initiative”, following a first EP from 2016. The label info-sheet that comes with this longplayers describes their style as “A metallic and raw...

(7/10) One year after having presented a four track EP, Belgium speedsters Evil Invaders push their newest studio album “Feed Me Violence” on the market. The band didn’t change the general principles of their sound. Evil Invaders still stand for furious...