Tag: Thrash
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, …
Municipal Waste – Massive Aggressive Review
originally written by Chris McDonald Municipal Waste: pioneers of the next age of thrash or overrated D.R.I. knock-offs? Both are true to an extent, but in a genre as inherently one-dimensional as thrash, I’ll happily …