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Last Piss Before Death – LPBD (Raging Planet)

Portugal has churned out some great thrash acts over the past 20 years. Amongst the bands in this wave, Prayers Of Sanity, Revolution Within and Switchtense have offered us some fine thrash assaults which have had a good variety of… Continue Reading →

Junkbreed – Music For Cool Kids (Raging Planet)

If you are looking for a cross-section of metallic sounds from Portugal, Raging Plant seem to be a good stop off point for discovering what is about on the scene. Junkbreed are presenting their debut album here and contain members… Continue Reading →

Power Trip – Nightmare Logic (Southern Lord)

Hailing out of Dallas, Texas, Power Trip are a pretty intense thrash metal group. With a very prominent early 80’s thrash sound mixed with some crossover thrash influences and some touches of grindcore and powerviolence in terms of the rhythmic… Continue Reading →

Revolution Within – Annihilation (Rastilho Records)

Portugal isn’t exactly a place you would associate with thrash metal when it comes to recognisable artists. Aside from the rather intense and impressive Switchtense which I covered earlier this year, my only real experience with Portuguese metal are the… Continue Reading →

Deathstorm – Blood Beneath The Crypts (High Roller)

Whilst I have enjoyed the recent surge in retro inspired stoner rock and doom which has appeared so far this year, there’s nothing quite like thrash and recently having had two thrash albums from Switchtense and Warfect, with a new… Continue Reading →

Switchtense – Flesh And Bones (Rastilho Records)

Formed in Moita, Setúbal, back in 2002, Portugal’s thrash machine Switchtense are set to unleash their third album on us. With a couple of EP’s, a split and a 10 year anniversary video recording, the band who have two full… Continue Reading →

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