Tag: Thrash

Savage Messiah – Insurrection Rising Review

Originally written by Chris Chellis. Post retro thrash-revival thrash? Eh, forget the tags. This is just good metal. While some of their similarly “new” brethren seem to lean more toward the speed of Bonded by Blood,

Hellbastard – The Need To Kill Review

British punk/thrash unit Hellbastard’s 1986 demo Ripper Crust is credited with putting the “crust” in crust punk. Back then, Hellbastard were an Amebix-like metallic punk band, ragged and raw, as heavily influenced by anarchist collectives

Witchmaster – Trücizna Review

Only with heavy metal is ugliness a complement. Poland’s Witchmaster revel in all things hideous and dirty, and in all things, well, metal. With this aim in mind, they spew forth nasty blackened thrash with

Skeletonwitch – Breathing The Fire Review

Originally written by Erik Thomas So, I sorta dug this band’s 2007 second album, Beyond the Permafrost, but also considered them the slightly more black metal influenced baby brother of 3 Inches of Blood with their take on old

Ravage – The End Of Tomorrow Review

Originally written by Ross Main. Ravage do little to suggest that their music won’t be out of style, out of ideas and out of the CD player by breakfast. Ed Repka’s album artwork is beautiful, but

Slayer – World Painted Blood Review

Slayer. There is likely a very special place in your heart for that name and the music it represents. Whether it was Tom Araya’s banshee wail kicking off“Angel of Death,” the damning intro of “Hell

Shadows Fall – Retribution Review

Here is the deal with shitty vocals: they are permissible if, and only if 1) they are not the focus of the songs, 2) the music is good enough to render them inconsequential, and 3)

Expulsion – Wasteworld Review

As I listen to Wasteworld, I have the comical (to me) image of Expulsion in the studio, playing the album start to finish, and then each of them collapsing in a heap by their instruments,