Tag Agent Steel
Anyone who loves speed metal, but can’t stand the lashings of cheese usually served up by the speedier Euro brand of power metal, should love Portrait. The first album back in 2008 was a blast – a fantastic band still… Continue Reading →
Writing for Ave Noctum is never a chore. Sure on the odd occasion I get sent stuff that I would normally swerve like Neo in The Matrix dodges bullets but over the last few months it’s opened my ears to… Continue Reading →
American Speed Metal (fast and furious, usually with some form of sporadic high pitched vocal, double-kick drums flying all over the place, frenetic riffing, but stopping just short of Thrash) was one of the 80’s Metal styles that never… Continue Reading →
Shadow Host, if you didn’t know (and I didn’t) are a thrash / power metal band from Moscow that have been in existence since 1993 and this is their fifth studio album. On top of those 5 records they’ve also… Continue Reading →
Thrashers rejoice!! Hirax have returned after five years with their 5th full length ‘Immortal Legacy’. And what an appropriate title this is as Katon and company are here to enshrine their immortal legacy with another killer example of thrash metal… Continue Reading →
Deathhammer could have been spawned back in 1985, their fast aggressive version of thrash is a breath of fresh in a sometimes complacent wider appealing thrash genre. What sets these guys apart is their ease of delivery; their music is… Continue Reading →