Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Feb 9, 2012, 8:01 pm
That excellent play on words aside, THIS IS ÖUTRAGEÖUS. Motörhead’s quite delicious Australian Shiraz will not be sold in Iceland because the band is synonymous with being a bit naughty. The fear is that the sale of Lemmy & co’s fruity number could result in leading our North Atlantic friends...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Feb 9, 2012, 5:00 am
Young Guns Bones Liver 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, ca...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Feb 8, 2012, 5:28 pm
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!...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Feb 8, 2012, 12:06 pm
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 the Int...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Feb 8, 2012, 9:34 am
There are bands that go well with a drink, and then there are bands that turn even the lightest drinker into a nonstop, unapologetic booze machine. To have two bands of the latter kind on the same bill is kinda genius and also kinda dangerous. Our livers were quivering in fear when we set off for th...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Feb 8, 2012, 8:59 am
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 th...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Feb 7, 2012, 1:03 pm
…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 gu...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Feb 7, 2012, 12:21 pm
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again – as far as touring line-ups go, the combination of Mastodon, The Dillinger Escape Plan and Red Fang has set the bar for 2012. Given that Mastodon put out the Thrash Hits Album of 2011, The Dillinger Escape Plan put out the Thrash Hits album of 2010...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Feb 7, 2012, 9:07 am
Napalm Death Utilitarian Century Media 27 February 2012 by Tom Dare It may at first glance appear odd to say it, but Napalm Death have never quite got the credit they deserve. “How so?” you say. “They’re a legendary band hailed as the godfathers of their genre.” And you’re right –...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Feb 7, 2012, 8:01 am
Another day, another YouTube channel demanding your attention, right? Well, no, in this case – Noisey, the Vice Magazine online-offshoot that’s entirely music-orientated – launched their own YouTube channel this week, and it’s already got a hell of a lot more going for it than a million othe...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Feb 7, 2012, 5:17 am
It’s February. If you’re a normal person you would’ve had a very austere January, contemplating the various sins you committed over the Christmas period. We just drank the pain away, obviously, but that’s not the point. Basically, you should’ve recovered from the toils of Christmas present...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Feb 6, 2012, 5:21 pm
Well, he is if the new Killswitch Engage website is anything to go by. That’s where we got that above picture from, after all. It also comes as a surprise to absolutely no-one, given the ever-decreasing levels of denial coming from Mr Leach in recent days. Still, it’ll be interesting to see what...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Feb 6, 2012, 10:21 am
We like stuff that’s a bit different here at Thrash Hits. That’s why we do silly things like talking to Devin Townsend about hot sauce and Neil Fallon about beer. So when we got emailed a link to an interview with Lamb Of God’s Mark Morton about liking NASCAR, we thought we’d share the video...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Feb 6, 2012, 5:27 am
A couple of Friday nights ago, we demolished every character-staining suspicion that we were having a “Sober January” in the Unicorn in Camden. There were also a couple of bands playing – Carpathia and Bleeding Oath – so we got our man Von to write about them. Six things we learned while t...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Feb 5, 2012, 6:42 am
Look, we’re a bit tired, we’ve foolishly agreed to cook Sunday lunch today, and we still have to trudge down the shops to buy a big slab of meat to cook for it. With much of the UK currently under 2 inches of snow, can you blame us for going with an obvious topic this Sunday? That’s why we’v...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Feb 3, 2012, 4:03 pm
It’s Friday night, and you’ve got to ask yourself one question – why wouldn’t you want to watch a video of Job For A Cowboy and Cephalic Carnage’s bass player, Nick Schendzielos, pretending to be in a jungle and knocking out some solo funk jams on his bass? You’re at home on a Friday ni...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Feb 3, 2012, 9:28 am
Crocus Our Memories Dress Me In A Dead Lust Holy Roar 13 February 2012 by Tom Doyle British bands are often accused of apeing their American counterparts – a trend which is most patently seen in the rock mainstream, and where the UK and US markets are intrinsically wed by the  lifelines of b...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Feb 3, 2012, 8:27 am
Bloodstock Open Air have confirmed another pair of names for their 2012 bill – this time around it’s Iced Earth and Sepultura. For both bands, this will be their only UK shows in 2012. We guess that’s kind of alright, isn’t it? We don’t have that much to say about the booking of these ...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Feb 3, 2012, 5:53 am
Those of you following us on Twitter will have heard us mention earlier this week that we’d “just heard a festival headliner “rumour” so mental it has blown my mind. GOBSMACKED“…well, it seems The Daily Star have gone and blown all our secrets out of the water – today they confirmed th...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Feb 3, 2012, 4:46 am
Abigail Williams Becoming Candlelight Records 23 January 2012 by Andy Parker Abigail Williams is the sole brainchild of Ken Sorceron, a man who has purged and rebuilt his empire several times over in the search of his “true” sound. Becoming sees the band’s creator and leader finally makin...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Feb 2, 2012, 11:38 am
Biohazard Reborn In Defiance Nuclear Blast 20 January 2012 by Tom Dare It’s all gone a bit awry for Biohazard recently. In the summer, they split with Evan Seinfeld (singer, bass player, porn star, and the one member of the band you’d be most likely to recognise in the pub) right on the eve...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Feb 2, 2012, 9:00 am
Amulet 
From: London, UK Lazy equation: (Cathedral + Saint Vitus) x lots and lots of Black Sabbath. URL: Facebook // Big Cartel Thrash Hits Verdict: 
Is “retro” a dirty word? Are we doing the history of metal a disservice by referring to bands as “traditional” metal? Should we jus...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Feb 2, 2012, 7:40 am
Yesterday, Rolo Tomassi treated us to the first taste of their as-yet-untitled upcoming third studio album, in the form of new single, ‘Old Mystics’. It’s the first new music we’ve heard from the band (as opposed to the previously unreleased demos and the like on Eternal Youth) in nearly t...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Feb 2, 2012, 6:34 am
Lacuna Coil Dark Adrenaline Century Media 23 January 2012 by Von Dark Adrenaline. It just doesn’t sound right, does it? It sounds a bit like a knock-off deodorant that looks a bit like Lynx, that you might find in Poundland. Not a good start then. So, Lacuna Coil are back with another album...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Feb 1, 2012, 4:21 am
Download Festival have announced a veritable swathe of additional acts that will be gracing their festival at Donington Park this Summer. There’s even a fair few heavyweights in this announcement, including Megadeth, Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society, Slash, and Thrash Hits’ personal favourite...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Jan 29, 2012, 5:33 am
Well, this week Sonisphere finally broke their silence and announced some of the bands that will be playing their Spanish and Finnish festivals this year. As yet there’s still no names for Knebworth, and as Metal Hammer noted, some of the names that are playing in Madrid and Helsinki are playing D...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Jan 27, 2012, 10:05 am
Coheed and Cambria TBC Roadrunner Records ETA Summer 2012 What they’re saying: Things have been looking on the topsy side of turvy in the Coheed and Cambria camp recently – and it’s not just because Claudio Sanchez’s hair is still beyond ridiculous. 2011 saw the band lose two members – ...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Jan 27, 2012, 7:23 am
It seems that we can’t get enough of The Black Dahlia Murder and Skeletonwitch’s UK tour. Not only did about half our writing staff pile into the Camden Underworld when the tour hit London, but our photographer in chief, Gary Wolstenholme, was on hand to snap it when the tour arrived in his nati...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Jan 27, 2012, 6:29 am
Hevy Festival has announced its first fifteen bands for 2012 – they are Converge, Will Haven, Protest The Hero, Deaf Havana, Verse, The Chariot, A Wilhelm Scream, Deez Nuts, Set Your Goals, Trapped Under Ice, Pianos Become The Teeth, Balance and Composure, Sharks, Last Witness, and Crocus. Sweeeee...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Jan 27, 2012, 6:14 am
Pilgrim Misery Wizard Poison Tongue/Metal Blade 14 February 2012 by Tom Dare While music obviously needs bands capable of doing radically new, different things, it also needs bands that refine existing styles and add their own voice. Pilgrim fall into the latter category – they’re not going...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Jan 27, 2012, 5:06 am
32 years ago today, Bon Scott, frontman with rock legends AC/DC performed his final ever concert – somewhat sinisterly, the final show of the band’s Highway To Hell tour. Just over three weeks later, on 19 February 1980, Scott would be found dead after suffocating on his own vomit, following a ...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Jan 26, 2012, 11:11 am
Goatwhore Blood For The Master Metal Blade 13 February 2012 by Von Confession time. I only just started really listening to Goatwhore. Yeah, I’d heard them on compilation CDs and Spotify trawls, but I hadn’t sat down and got through a whole album. Why? Because I’m a fucking moron. Goatwho...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Jan 26, 2012, 10:20 am
Tool Title TBC Volcano Entertainment ETA May 2012 What they’re saying: It’s been six long years since Tool released the Grammy Award-winning 10,000 Days, which means proggers, grungers and metallers all around the world are currently dribbling over the prospect of a new record approaching f...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Jan 26, 2012, 7:25 am
Grappler 
From: London & Leeds, UK, via Grenoble, France Lazy equation: (Devil Sold His Soul + Dead Swans) x a degree less wanton chest-beating. URL: Website // Facebook Thrash Hits Verdict: 
At some point, the UK hardcore bubble of recent years is going to burst. Like it or not, the part-...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Jan 26, 2012, 5:34 am
The Menzingers On The Impossible Past Epitaph 20 February 2012 by Tom Doyle The appeal of honest, sweat-drenched punk rock is decades old, but its power never seems to diminish and the reaction it can illicit in your heart and head when done correctly is second to none. With their third full-le...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Jan 20, 2012, 9:24 am
It’s Friday afternoon and Enter Shikari are currently in the lead for the race to top the UK Album Chart this week. Tom Doyle explains why we need A Flash Flood of Colour to reach #1. “You’re a Communist, you’re a fucking Utopianist. Ah, here come the immersive labels.” These are words s...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Jan 20, 2012, 9:09 am
Your Demise The Golden Age Visible Noise 26 March 2012 What they’re saying: Your Demise’s star has been in the ascendent for some time now, with the impetus created by their Download 2010 performance matched by that of their third studio record (and first with current vocalist, Ed McRae), 2...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Jan 20, 2012, 5:45 am
Blessed By A Broken Heart Feel The Power Tooth & Nail / Rude Records 30 January 2012 by Tom Doyle For about five minutes back in the mid 2000s, Blessed By A Broken Heart were one of those bands that looked like they could’ve been absolutely massive in the UK. Shows with the then-hot-ticket E...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Jan 20, 2012, 4:41 am
30 years ago today, on 20 January 1982, an anonymous fan of Ozzy Osbourne took a live bat to a concert of the then-ex-Black Sabbath frontman in Iowa, Des Moines. He/She threw it onstage, and the rest, as they say, is history. While (thankfully) no footage of Osbourne’s unwitting chiropteracide, i...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Jan 19, 2012, 10:46 am
Trent Reznor / Nine Inch Nails / How To Destroy Angels Title TBC The Null Corporation ETA Anytime 2012 What they’re saying: There’s been a lot of confusion about the future of Nine Inch Nails for some time now. Back in 2009, when Trent Reznor announced he was going to be taking a break from...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Jan 19, 2012, 7:34 am
Prelude To The Hunt 
From: Aberdeen, Scotland Lazy equation: All Pigs Must Pie + Gaza x Charger = YES PLEASE. URL: Facebook // Bandcamp Thrash Hits Verdict: 
If we had to pick one set of set of people guaranteed to recommend good new bands for us to check out, then it’s people in other g...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Jan 19, 2012, 6:17 am
Here’s a minute-long clip of an eight-year-old girl’s first ever hardcore song. She has a bright future. ‘My First Hardcore Song’ by 8yr old Juliet 8 yr old Juliet teamed up with the hottest producer ROB SHARPE this school holidays and smashed out this BRUTAL track.. Juliet takes you on a ...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Jan 19, 2012, 4:45 am
Veils Clarity Tangled Talk Records 30 January 2012 by Alex Andrews From the front cover of Clarity, a deer stares out of a black and white photograph, amidst a desolate, snow covered landscape. It’s a mood that’s mirrored by the eerie guitar that ushers in the EP’s opener and one that ha...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Jan 18, 2012, 8:38 am
Judas Priest Title TBC Epic Records ETA Autumn 2012 What they’re saying: 2011 was a turbulent year for Judas Priest – indeed, it was a year which could have very easily ended their decades-long career. When the Epitaph World Tour was announced back in December 2010, everything sounded a bit...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Jan 18, 2012, 5:07 am
Woods Of Ypres Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light Earache Records 13 February 2012 by Tom Dare By now, you’re probably aware Woods Of Ypres mainman David Gold died on 21 December 2011. What was meant to be the first album he’d have had significant label backing for after plugging away in ...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Nov 3, 2011, 3:40 pm
Remember a couple of months back when we reported that Necrobutcher, aka Jørn Stubberud, from the band Mayhem, was to be exorcised on Norwegian state television? And by infamous Televangelist preacher and “demon hunter”, Bob Larson, no less? Well, not only has it gone and happened, and you can...
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Nov 3, 2011, 7:56 am
Whitechapel may be in the leading pack of the deathcore fraternity but with this 5-track EP, you've got to wonder whether they've corrupted themselves a bit.
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Nov 3, 2011, 5:50 am
When we went to Iceland for Airwaves Festival 2011 we saw some awesome new bands. Angist is one. Check out their excellent female-led death metal.
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Nov 2, 2011, 2:09 pm
Yeah, this goody bag has got real life booze in it. Because it's the Classic Rock Awards next week, they're giving away a bunch of stuff including delicious alcohol.
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Raziq R. posted an article on Thrash Hits — The World’s Loudest Rock Music Website - Nov 2, 2011, 12:56 pm
Five Finger Death Punch American Capitalist Spinefarm Records 10 October 2011 by Hugh Platt Do you remember those news stories last week about that Australian academic study into the links between music listening habits and depression? As per usual, plenty of media outlets misinterpreted the reports...
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