Drug Honkey Fall of Because Fear Factory Godflesh Head of David Jesu Khost Pitchshifter Scorn Skin Chamber Sonic Violence Swans
Grindcore
Agathocles Blood Brutal Truth Carbonized Carcass Extreme Noise Terror Impetigo Napalm Death Nuclear Death Painkiller Repulsion Terrorizer
Thrash metal
Carnivore Coroner D.B.C. Death Angel Demolition Hammer Destruction Exodus Morbid Saint N.M.E. Nuclear Assault Obliveon Onslaught Overkill Powermad S.O.D. Sadus Slayer Sodom Testament Voivod Watchtower
Punk
Amebix Cro-Mags Cryptic Slaughter D.R.I. Die Kreuzen Discharge Disfear The Exploited Fearless Iranians From Hell Killing Joke Misfits Poison Idea Suicidal Tendencies Zygote
Heavy metal
Angel Witch Anvil Black Sabbath Cirith Ungol English Dogs Judas Priest Mercyful Fate Plasmatics Raven Venom Witchfinder General
Facing our doom: Stoned Jesus and Monolord
When we’re looking to Sweden or Ukraine we’d usually be after a very different flavour to the tasting tray we’ll be sampling today. But once again we’re gonna reluctantly don our stoner hats, and forage back a few years to a time when this genre was still a big ticket pull; even if signs of a slow,... Continue Reading →
I like the beats and I like the yelling: Witchtrap, Svabhavat, Cynabare Urne
Witchtrap: Evil Strikes Again (2020) Columbian blackened thrash veterans Witchtrap have returned this year, or struck again you could say. ‘Evil Strikes Again’ makes apparent that Witchtrap would like us to note of how much housework they have carried since 2015’s ‘Trap the Witch’ (they're note known for masterful wordplay). Not only is the instrumentation... Continue Reading →
Bohemian rhapsody: Root and Master’s Hammer
It was old style black metalling, before it got such a bad name. That, at least, is the perception of these disparate scenes of the late 1980s taking root (I’ll refrain from making too many Root based puns from here on in), looking for a way out of thrash and death metal’s mire. The renewed... Continue Reading →
I like the beats and I like the yelling: Solitary, Iskandr, Malicious
Solitary: The Truth Behind the Lies (2020) Step one: form a band. Step two: select genre. Step three: harvest knowledge of genre tropes. Step four: profit. Well, step four is easier said than done with certain styles I hear, but y’know, don’t stop dreaming. To be fair to Preston’s Solitary they are no newcomers to... Continue Reading →