blackened thrash

Full Album Stream: Unpure – “Prophecies Ablaze”

March 29, 2023

Hear Swedish black metal vets Unpure return with Prophecies Ablaze, the first new studio album in nearly 20 years.

Video Premiere: Sadistic Ritual – ‘End of All Roads’

February 16, 2022

Hear the new single from Atlanta psych-thrashers Sadistic Ritual, taken from their new album, The Enigma, Boundless.

Track Premiere: Maudiir Offers Blackened Thrashing D-Beat with a Proggy Twist

February 11, 2021

Get to know, Maudiir, the one-man project helmed by Montréaller Frédéric “F.” Bergeron.

Album Premiere: Sarcator – Sarcator

October 27, 2020

Precocious Swedish scorchers Sarcator blast off and leave Earth far behind on their merciless debut self-titled full-length.

Album Premiere: Evoke – ‘Seeds of Death’

September 9, 2020

Bullet-belted deathrashers Evoke race the devil on their debut LP, Seeds of Death. Out September 18 on Pulverized Records.

Track Premiere: Battlemaster – ‘Black Challenge’

June 1, 2020

Take the “Black Challenge” with long-running Richmond blackened thrashers Battlemaster.

Full Album Stream: Dismemberment – ‘Arc of Ancients’

November 6, 2019

Blackened death/thrash bruisers Dismemberment will release Arc of Ancients, the second album from the Ohio extreme metal quartet, through Creator-Destructor Records this Friday, but why wait to hear it?

Track Premiere: Black Anvil – ‘Iron Sharpens Iron’

February 18, 2019

Black Anvil pay tribute to late The Devil’s Blood vocalist/guitarist Selim Lemouchi.

Review: Daeva – “Pulsing Dark Absorptions”

November 14, 2017

Sodom in the U.S.A. Label: 20 Buck Spin Daeva is most definitely a Steve Jansson affair. If you’re reading this magazine then you know who Jansson is even if you don’t realize you do. Jansson’s a Philly ’head, plays guitar in Crypt Sermon, screams and shreds in Trenchrot, Infiltrator, as well as killer grinders Unrest….

Interview: All Hell at Shadow Woods

October 18, 2017

All Hell performed at Shadow Woods, so we caught up with them to discuss their new album, The Grave Alchemist.

Label Spotlight: Deathrash Armageddon

April 10, 2017

Deathrash Armageddon is a Japanese label that releases a number of raw thrash and black metal bands. 

Track Premiere: All Hell – ‘I Am The Mist’

March 22, 2017

Blackened thrash trio All Hell deliver a new song from their forthcoming The Grave Alchemist. 

Full Album Stream: Rebel Wizard – ‘Triumph of Gloom’

February 22, 2017

Rebel Wizard‘s unique sound, self-described as “negative metal,” is an unholy marriage of black, thrash and power metal with a healthy dose of NWoBHM thrown in. Stream their album Triumph of Gloom in full now. 

INTERVIEW: Craven Idol’s S. Vrath on taking the extremely extreme road towards eschaton

December 2, 2013

A few months ago we had the pleasure of hosting the online premiere of Craven Idol’s awesome debut LP, Towards Eschaton. And it really was a pleasure, ‘cos this slab of apocalyptica is a total 100 per cent doozy. Released through Dark Descent in October, Towards Eschaton is a record that marks the Londoners’ evolution…

EXCLUSIVE STREAM: Craven Idol “Towards Eschaton”

September 30, 2013

Ladies and germs, pray silence please for Craven Idol’s Towards Eschaton. Pull up the easy chair, pull on the headphones; you’ll no doubt find the north Londoners’ debut long-player an extreme metal album of rare power. This here’s a bona fide contender for album of the year, a soundtrack for those evenings when your ouija…