Hellripper’s James McBain stormed the blackened speed metal scene with his 2021 Peaceville debut, The Affair of the Poisons. We enthused in our review that ‘metal is a rebellious counterculture…
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Deströyer 666 – Never Surrender
Deströyer 666 released their debut album twenty-five years ago and have had an eventful stop-start career ever since. The decision of frontman, K.K. Warslut, to relocate the group from Australia…
Pittsburgh thrash revivalists, Mantic Ritual, released their 2009 debut on Nuclear Blast Records and then split up a year later after touring alongside Rotting Christ and Destruction. Jeff Potts (guitars)…
Is there a variation of the alpha male with a nihilistic slacker side to his personality? Can he be the hunter and the stoner? American speed metal punks, Funeral Chic,…
Witchery are veterans of the blackened thrash scene having released their first LP back in 1998 when most bands were grappling with the disruption caused by nu metal and the…
Evil Invaders are the self-proclaimed purveyors of heavy metal that’s fast, loud ‘n’ rude. They sing about this on their 2015 debut, Pulses of Pleasure, and let you know in…
Denmark’s Slaegt landed a deal with Century Media after impressing with 2019’s The Wheel LP. Maintaining a dedicated line-up since 2015’s Beautiful and Damned EP also helped, as did the…
Jackal’s Backbone were the band on everybody’s lips as the darlings of the Hertfordshire metal scene before Vexed appeared from nowhere and secured a deal with Napalm Records to release…
German blackened-thrash maestros, Desaster, are now on their ninth album and their first record since 2016’s The Oath of an Iron Ritual. Armed with a new drummer, the quartet return…