Chicago’s Lair of the Minotaur’s new album may be called Evil Power, but the sound is more like “raw power.” Combining the ferocity of blackened thrash metal with the grinding style of doom metal, Lair of the Minotaur are really a sound to behold.
Some might see Evil Power as an album that takes queues from [...]
The Evolution of Chaos is an album a longtime coming for thrash fans, and more specifically Heathen fans such as myself. I have been a die hard fan of both of Heathen’s early albums, Breaking the Silence and Victims of Deception, so when I heard that the band was back together in the mid 2000’s, [...]
When I first encountered Dethlehem, I just had to laugh. I was sent a promo from the band and checked out their Myspace, and what I found was just too good to be true, a bunch of guys from Pittsburgh dawning medieval fantasy costumes like they are about to go on a LARPing conquest. And [...]
Behold one and all, the power of Post Mortem! Despite there being, literally, one Post Mortem in every populated nook that plays some sort of variation of thrash and death metal, none of them are quite like the Massachusetts undergrounders who have created a comeback album after many years of inactivity, albeit with bittersweet consequences. [...]
Ramming Speed is a band I have been following for a couple of years now mainly due to the fact that they are an awesome band who hails from none other than Boston, Mass. I am a huge thrash fan, and most of the great modern thrashers hail from outside of the New England region [...]
Unlike many of their thrash peers from their 80’s heyday, Slayer has remained as heavy as ever, putting out album after album of pulse pounding, boundary pushing, audible heresy. However, many metalheads (i.e. those who don’t cut themselves in the name of the band as a form of ridiculous worship), have been critical of several [...]
First and foremost, let me preface this review by saying that my thoughts are with Evile after the untimely passing of bassist Mike Alexander. While not as a result of unnatural causes if you will, Mike’s passing reminds me too much of Cliff Burton’s death. Mike died right at the pinnacle of the band breaking [...]
Skeletonwitch is an American made band that defies stereotypes. Hailing from Ohio, Skeletonwitch has gone on to become a pre-eminent example of modern underground American thrash that doesn’t have to be retro or post thrash. This is a very important aspect of this group for me and other fans of American thrash, because for many [...]
Like many thrash bands from the 80’s who have decided to return to the fold in a scene that is more financially fertile to thrash than it was 10-15 years ago when many less successful bands decided to call it quits, Whiplash has come back after an 11 year absence with Unborn Again on Pulverised [...]
Shadows Fall has always been a very reliable band with a sound they can call their own and a devoted following since their underground days. I remember seeing Shadows Fall in a small Burlington VT club back in 2002 when the metalcore phenomenon was on the rise. There were maybe 50 people max at this [...]
