Tag: Thrash
Bestial Mockery – Slaying The Life Review
originally written by Chris McDonald Fans of Sabbat and other thrash/black hybrids, take notice–Slaying The Lifeis a seriously destructive album. Bestial Mockery (who are now, unfortunately, split-up) take old-school thrash riffage and channel it through the blasphemous energy and …
Fondlecorpse – Blood & Popcorn Review
originally written by Chris McDonald Fondlecorpse’s Blood and Popcorn EP was originally intended to be a split with the now-unstable Frightmare, but due to delays from that end the band decided to release this material by itself. In …
Sodom – The Final Sign of Evil Review
One of the recent trends in metal has been for a band to go back and revisit older material for a new release. They may want to re-record it with a new approach (a la …
Exodus – The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A Review
“Are you ready to go another round with Exodus? “ When I asked myself that question, I was surprised that my initial reaction was uncertainty. It’s been years since the thrash pioneers did me wrong …
Evile – Enter The Grave Review
Originally written by Michael Roberts. And so the thrash revival continues! After a lot of positive build-up the UK’s Evile have dropped their debut full-length for Earache, and it’s a cracking album in many ways, but your enjoyment …
DevilDriver – The Last Kind Words Review
My feelings on DevilDriver have been well documented on this site, so I’ll leave a lot of the background information out of this one. I will say that it has been interesting not only watching …
Overkill – Immortalis Review
If anyone deserves to benefit from the current resurgence (read: commercial viability) of thrash, it’s a band like Overkill. These originators have been hard at it for two decades; not collapsing under egos and superstar expectations, …
Scythian – Suffering To The Conquered Review
Originally written by Erik Thomas. Synopsis: There’s a lot of reason for me to feign liking this five song demo: former Metal Review scribe Alex De Moller is on guitars (who also does session guitars for Mithras), …