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Thrash Metal

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Okkultokrati ‘Snakereigns’ CD/LP 2012

24th November 20123rd September 2019 Alex Varley 2012, Alex Varley, Black Metal, CD, Fysisk Format, LP, Metal, Okkultokrati, Review, Snakereigns, Thrash Metal

The melding of hardcore-punk and black metal is becoming all too common as of late but no band makes it

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Ravens Creed ‘The Power’ CD/LP 2012

18th November 20123rd September 2019 Saúl Do Caixão 2012, CD, Doomentia Records, Heavy, LP, Metal, Raven's Creed, Review, Saúl Do Caixão, The Power, Thrash Metal

Ah, thrash metal! Music of energy, anger and spit! Also a genre I’m very picky with – I can’t listen

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Mantas ‘Death By Metal’ CD/LP/Digital 2012

11th July 20123rd September 2019 Alex Varley 2012, Alex Varley, CD, Chuck Schuldiner, Death, Death By Metal, Death Metal, Digital, LP, Mantas, Metal, Relapse Records, Review, Thrash Metal

Chuck Schuldiner is one of the greatest metal musicians of all time. This isn’t opinion, it’s fact and Relapse Records

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Knife Crimes ‘Demo MMXII’ CD/CS/Digital 2012

29th June 20122nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2012, Cassette, CD, Demo MMXII, Digital, Hardcore, Knife Crimes, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Self Released, Sludge, Thrash Metal, Witch Hunter Records

Knife Crimes. Like the names of their influences in the metallic hardcore scene (Brutality Will Prevail, Hang The Bastard and

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Album & EP Reviews E 

Enabler ‘All Hail The Void’ CD 2012

23rd June 20123rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2012, All Hail The Void, Andrew Sloan, CD, Crossover, Death Metal, Enabler, Hardcore, Review, Southern Lord, Thrash Metal

The slow acoustic strum of a simple chord progression plays through a handful of times as delay echoes in the

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Natur ‘Head Of Death’ CD 2012

18th May 20123rd September 2019 Alex Varley 2012, Alex Varley, CD, Earache Records, Head Of Death, Heavy Metal, Natur, NWOBHM, Review, Thrash Metal

It’s satisfying to know that over the past couple of years traditional heavy metal has been re-valued by the mainstream

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Black Breath ‘Sentenced To Life’ CD/LP/DD 2012

23rd March 20122nd September 2019 Pete Green 2012, Black Breath, CD, Crust, DD, Digital Download, LP, Metal, Pete Green, Review, Sentenced To Life, Sludge, Southern Lord, Thrash Metal

Got your filthiest, most indecipherably nasty metal t-shirt on? Toe-cap clamped firmly on the monitor or stage front? Ear-protection duly

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Tort – S/T – CD 2012

27th February 20122nd September 2019 Pete Green 2012, CD, Doom, Metal, Pete Green, Review, Self Titled, Sludge, Thrash Metal, Tort, Totalrust Music

Thrash metal. Doom metal. One an unrelenting and unforgivingly savage Minotaur trapped in the dungeon of its own manic psychosis;

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Corrosion Of Conformity – S/T – CD/LP 2012

20th January 20123rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2012, Candlelight Records, CD, COC, Corrosion Of Conformity, Doom, Hardcore, LP, Ollie Stygall, Review, Self Titled, Thrash Metal

When COC reunited with the original “Animosity” era line-up of Woody Weatherman, Mike Dean and Reed Mullin, ostensibly to tour

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Hot Graves ‘Knights In White Phosphorus’ CD 2011

11th December 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, CD, D-Beat, Death Crust, Hot Graves, Knights In White Phosphorus, NHR Records, Northern Horde Records, Paul Robertson, Review, Thrash Metal

“Running and hunting and slashing and crushing and searching and seeing and stabbing and shooting and thrashing and smashing and

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Hot Graves ‘Desecration Time’ 7″

23rd July 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, 7", D-Beat, Death Crust, Desecration Time, Greyhaze Records, Hot Graves, Paul Robertson, Review, Thrash Metal

Hot Graves have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and they’re aaaaaaaall outta bubblegum. Totally ripping, raw old-school

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