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Rants and extended reads

The Year of the Thrashdemic: A Look Back & LePeR MeSSiaH’s Top 20 of 2020

If there was any year to be stuck inside listening to music…

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Album Reviews

Maniac Abductor – “Casualties of Causality” – Review

Tracklist: 1. Fooled Again 03:58 2. Watery Tomb 05:29 3. First World Disease 03:54 4. Evil Brotherhood 03:54 5. Destroyer Of Worlds 03:56 6. No Hope For You 03:16 7. Hatebound 04:36 8. Thrash Assault 03:08 9. Troops Of Doom 02:43 Label: Inverse Records Release date: May 10th, 2019 Hometown: Joensuu, Finland Purchase the album here.   […]

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Album Reviews

Hemotoxin – “Restructure the Molded Mind” – Review

Tracklist: 1. Nihilistic Principle 2. Acrimony 3. Legion of Alienation 4. Unreality 5. Execution 6. Corrupted Flesh 7. Automation 8. Restructure the Molded Mind Label: Unspeakable Axe Records Have you ever wondered what would happen if someone decided to cram every Death album made before 1991 into 28 minutes? Well that question was ear-splittingly answered by […]

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Album Reviews

Holycide – “Fist To Face” – Review

Holycide – “Fist To Face” Review

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Underground Gems

Antichrist – Forbidden World (High Roller Records, 2011)

Anyone who knows me from my posts on the Thrashmania Facebook page will be aware I’m a total old-school head. There are a few exceptions to my (mainly 1980s) tastes in Thrash, this album being one of them. Antichrist formed in Växjö, Sweden, in 2005. They released two demos, “Crushing Metal Tape” in 2009, and “Put To […]

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...But this isn't Thrash!

Black Sabbath – Master Of Reality (Vertigo Records, 1971)

Nobody can accurately say who first coined the term “Heavy Metal”. Various claims include author William Burroughs, journalist Lester Bangs, Steppenwolf, and so on. But if asked which band started it all off, most people would say Black Sabbath.  There were other hard-rocking proto-Metal bands around in the late 60s (Led Zeppelin, Cream, Deep Purple […]

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Album Reviews New Music Incoming

Black fast stretch their horizons on album 3.

Black Fast have been around the thrash metal scene for a while now, putting out 2 previous LPs, an EP and a single to more or less unanimous praise from those in the know. But is album 3 the release to get them to the attention of a wider audience? My opinion is yes, most […]

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Old School classics

Sodom – Expurse Of Sodomy E.P. (Steamhammer, 1987)

In 1986, Sodom put out their “Obsessed By Cruelty” album. At that time, they were still very much in their earlier Black Thrash phase. “Expurse Of Sodomy” was released roughly 18 months later, and showed a more “classic Thrash” style. And it certainly is a classic! Recorded at Musiclab Studio in Berlin in late 1986, […]

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Underground Gems

Bulldozer – The Day Of Wrath (Roadrunner Records, 1985)

  There’s been many albums made by Italian Thrash and Thrash-based bands over the years. Only a handful of them are what I’d consider classics, this being one of them (also the first two Necrodeath albums and Schizo’s “Main Frame Collapse“). Bulldozer had been active as a band from 1980, at one point calling themselves […]

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General Shit Rants and extended reads

One Man thrash projects

After covering the thrash metal revival for a good few years, I have noticed the slow increase in the number of acts that are the the effort of a single individual. Toxic Holocaust is undoubtedly the most well known of these solo projects (although Joel Grind has now permanently hired a drummer, he still is […]