Tag: Thrash

A Devil’s Dozen – Coroner

After many moons sitting upon the desk of editor Zach Duvall, it’s time to tell the local coroner to bust a U-turn—this installment of the Devil’s Dozen is, in fact, alive and well. While comatose …

Sigh – I Saw The World’s End – Hangman’s Hymn MMXXV Review

So hey, what the hell, let’s kick things off today with an old chestnut: “Hegel says somewhere that, upon the stage of universal history, all great events and personalities reappear in one fashion or another. …

Diamonds & Rust: Punk Meets Doom, And The Result Is Literally Sacrilege

[Cover artwork by Angus McKie] As a result of punk rock’s penchant for speed and aggression that eventually fueled the fires of the NWOBHM, we are all well aware that punk and heavy metal have …

Programmed To Appease You – Destroy Erase Improve At 30

It might be hard to believe at this point, considering the band’s gargantuan stature in the music industry, but Meshuggah had rather humble beginnings. Take their 1989 self-titled debut EP, for example. It had much …

Doomsday – Never Known Peace Review

Sharing current and former members with San Jose’s Ripped To Shreds, Oakland’s Doomsday is comparable to that band, not so much musically (or really, almost not at all musically, if you split metallic hairs like …

Cryptosis – Celestial Death Review

[Cover art by Eliran Kantor] You like thrash metal, right? And you love all things space, don’t you? Of course you do, you fucking nerd. Look where you are right now. If the idea of …

Exordium Mors – Sworn To Heresy Review

There’s something to be said for a band knowing their strengths, forming more strengths, and then really leaning into them. In the case of Auckland, New Zealand’s Exordium Mors, those strengths include mastery of multiple riff …

Diamonds & Rust: Revenant – Prophecies Of A Dying World // Lost Years, Lost Opportunities, Redemption

Since the very first day I stepped into heavy metal’s looming halls, I have been an obsessive participant in most every facet of the genre. The experience was fairly overwhelming at first, owed in part …