What does Slayer do? Don't need to think about it. The only one of these memes worth posting.
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But what does Slayer think that WE do?
Dear TRC, I think we need to have a little talk about our “relationship” in light of your video to ‘Temptation’
In the spirit of the “Dear John letter” concept, one of our writers just had to get something off his chest (following several minutes of dumbfoundedness) after watching the mesmeric new video from TRC. Warning: This post contains a TRC video. “Dear TRC, I’m terribly sorry that I’ve had to do this through a letter. [...]
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Live: Basick Records Fest @ London Camden Barfly – 05 February 2012
We sauntered along to the Barfly to see what Basick Records have to offer modern metal. And to see whether we can out-drink them (we couldn't).
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Pure Love played a gig. As promised, it sounds nothing like Gallows
Pure Love played their first ever gig in Shepherd's Bush. Yeah, Frank Carter learnt to sing. It isn't either Gallows or Hope Conspiracy so shut up.
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Bloodstock Open Air 2012 adds Testament as a UK exclusive.
Bloodstock Open Air have confirmed that Testament – one of the most criminally-overlooked thrash bands, in our opinion – will be playing their only UK show of 2012 as part of the Bloodstock bill. And while we’ve lightly mocked some of the “UK EXCLUSIVE!!11!!” claims thrown around by festivals with this year’s bookings, bagging sole possession [...]
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Throats want you to download their entire discography for FREE, and will help you do it too.
Throats were one of those bands that burned hard and burned fast. In the three of so years of the band’s lifespan, everyone kinda took them for granted. The band had shrugged off the “hipster grind” tag that their less-imaginative critics loved to throw at them, and had started to become a real force all [...]
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Album: Mark Lanegan Band – Blues Funeral
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Mark Langen Band Blues Funeral 4AD 06 February 2012 by Jon Kerr The history of rock and blues have been so mixed and muddied together over the course of history that attempting to pick apart their various genomes and how they all interact with each other is almost a failed endeavour from the start. Now that the [...]
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Vice have just started showing a serialisation of their excellent documentary, Heavy Metal In Baghdad. If you’ve not seen it before, now’s your chance.
No doubt more than a fair few of you are already familiar with Heavy Metal In Baghdad, the superb documentary by Vice Films, which tracks the existence of Acrassicauda, Baghdad’s only active metal band during, and in the immediate aftermath of, the invasion of Iraq and ousting of Saddam Hussein. If you’re one of the poor souls who [...]
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The Dillinger Escape Plan are coming back to London in April – and maybe a whole UK tour to boot
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They might’ve only just finished touring the UK in support of Mastodon, but it seems The Dillinger Escape Plan already look set to be making a return to our shores sooner rather than later. We’ve just spied this date – 26 April 2012 - as a scheduled Dillinger Escape Plan show over on The Highbury Garage’s [...]
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EP: Fucked Up – Year Of The Tiger
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Fucked Up Year of the Tiger Matador Records 06 February 2012 by Alex Andrews Given that their last commitment to tape was an 82-minute ‘rock opera’, chronicling the haphazard love life of an English factory worker, you could be forgiven for thinking that Fucked Up had exhausted all channels for experimentation. You’d be wrong, of [...]
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Video: Turbowolf’s promo for ‘Let’s Die’ FINALLY makes it online. It’s like Sir Clive Sinclair re-imagining The Terminator.
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It turned up on various music television last week, but today Turbowolf’s rather fine video to ‘Let’s Die’ finally appeared online for those of us too cheap to buy cable or satellite TV to enjoy. And – somewhat unsurprisingly – we think it’s pretty damn good. Given that ‘Let’s Die’ is the apocalyptically-minded closing track [...]
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Sunday Slaylist: Bonecrusher Festival 2012
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We’re keeping things nice and simple for this week’s Slaylist. This evening, the 2012 incarnation of Bonecrusher Festival has rolled into town, and we’re heading down to the Camden Underworld to check it out. What better way to get us in the mood than with a Slaylist of all the band’s taking part this year? Headlined [...]
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Photos: Hyro Da Hero, Marmozets + Astroid Boys @ Sheffield Corporation – 10 February 2012
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Hyro Da Hero is heavy enough for us to feature him on Thrash Hits, right? That’s a rhetorical question, by the way. It wasn’t a request for people to go debate it in the comments or anything. Anyway, he’s got the more-than-excellent Marmozets playing in support of him on his UK tour, and given that we’ve [...]
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WHINE: Motörhead wine outlawed in Iceland
OK, it's not Motörhead outlawed in Iceland as much as their shiraz wine. Apparently it'll make people want to take speed and shag... WHILST AT WAR!
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Album: Young Guns – Bones
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Young Guns Bones Live Forever 03 February 2012 by David Keevill Us writing types at Thrash Hits don’t always agree on musical tastes, and Young Guns are one of those bands that polarize opinion in the TH camp. Whereas I thought the 2010 debut release, All Our Kings Are Dead, was a giant, catchy and cohesive [...]
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Apparently Shinedown just confirmed onstage at the Camden Roundhouse that they’re playing Download Festival 2012
Erm…yeah, that’s about it. It’s also been confirmed by Andy Copping, the festival’s promoter, via his Twitter account, so apparently it’s legit. Have Shinedown confirmed they’re playing at Download tonight? Fuck those guys! I can’t deny it..what a nice little unexpected treat for you! — Andy Copping (@Maverick_AC) February 8, 2012 We’ve got nothing else [...]
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Album: Lamb of God – Resolution
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Lamb of God Resolution Roadrunner Records 23 January 2012 by Tom Dare Lamb of God appear to have truly made it in the A-League of the metal world. The way you can tell is by the number of people who have either fallen over themselves to froth all over latest album Resolution or taken to [...]
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Live: Thin Lizzy + Clutch @ London Hammersmith Apollo – 04 February 2011
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Imagine going to see Thin Lizzy and Clutch at the same gig and getting so drunk you can't remember enough of the gig to review it. That.
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Album: Caliban – I Am Nemesis
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Caliban I Am Nemesis Century Media 03 February 2012 by Dan Pelic What Caliban does nowadays is done….a lot. But, hell….they do it well. Caliban’s first properly issued LP, Vent, released back in 2001, was an instant metalcore classic, not only for its raw and penetrating sound, but for the band’s teetotaler views – refusing the [...]
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And while we’re on the subject of The Dillinger Escape Plan…
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…they’ve just released a new video, this time for ‘Parasitic Twins’, the atmospheric closing track to the magnificent Option Paralysis. You can check it out after the jump. It’s an interesting choice of single, given that main vocal duties on the track is shared by Dillinger’s second guitarist, Jeff Tuttle, rather than just being handled [...]
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