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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 […]

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Album Reviews New Music Incoming

New music incoming: Amorphia – Arms to Death

Listen and buy here Arriving on Thrashmania’s inbox all the way from India, Amorphia released their debut ‘Arms to Death’ back in April. It is a solid debut that shows flashes of the true spirit of thrash metal but finds itself bogged down too much by some of the modern genre cliches exhibited by many […]