Hi and thank you for sparing time to chat with us. Could you first introduce yourself and tell us how Smiling Assassin came to be? GEORGE: My name is George Garnett and I am the vocalist for Smiling Assassin, on… Read More ›
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Siberian Meat Grinder – Metal Bear Stomp
A big rabid beast has loomed on our horizons, a hungry carnivore of a proposition ready to devour the senses on the way to the top of the metal landscape. It is Russian fury Siberian Meat Grinder; a band which… Read More ›
Black Sachbak – No Pay No Gain
Strapping on a tank full of punk to their trash fuelled juggernaut of sound, Israeli metallers Black Sachbak is one of those wonderfully intrusive treats which it is impossible not to develop a lustful hunger for. Theirs is thrash metal… Read More ›
Expain – Just The Tip
With rich flavour to every unpredictable twist and imaginative exploit within feverishly inventive designs, Just The Tip, the debut album from Canadian band Expain, is one ruggedly captivating proposition. As evidenced by the release, Expain cast a sound which is… Read More ›
Axegressor – Last
Thrash metal with the hostility and ravenous jaws of a rabid horde is the bestial sound which roars away in the hands and skills of Finnish metallers Axegressor, epitomised and taken to its strongest level to date on new album… Read More ›
Sweet dances and psychotic episodes: an interview with Fede of Destrage
Difficult to describe but very easy to enthuse vociferously over, Are You Kidding Me? No. the new album from Italian metallers Destrage is easily one of the most thrilling and innovative albums to come along not only this year so… Read More ›
Destrage – Are You Kidding Me? No.
Destrage is a force which confronts and seduces the imagination with such an exhaustive vivacity of sound and adventure that it becomes a proposition which has you simultaneously confused, bewildered, and thrillingly basking in a maelstrom of sonic… Read More ›
Nuclear Omnicide – Bringers Of Disease
Not just going for the jugular but ripping it out and violating it like a whirling dervish, Finnish thrashers Nuclear Omnicide uncages their new EP Bringers Of Disease. Six tracks of unbridled and rapacious old school thrash metal which rampages… Read More ›
Toxic Holocaust – Chemistry of Consciousness
Eagerly on the heels of the must have From the Ashes of Nuclear Destruction album, a career spanning retrospective covering Toxic Holocaust rarities from the past decade, as well as The Yellowgoat Sessions from the excellent solo project release from… Read More ›
Armoured passions: an interview with Tony Asta of Battlecross
Having been beaten into blissful surrender by and enlisted to the aggressive cry of debut album Pursuit of Honor, US metallers Battlecross are taking our passions on a stronger and immensely hungrier fury with its exhilarating successor War of Will,… Read More ›