Thrash metal is the point at which heavy metal stopped being about power and started being about velocity. The mechanics, the three parents, the four scenes, the ten records, where the borders with death and black metal actually run, and a thirty second test.
By Declan Rourke
20 September · 11 min read
Portraits
He joined Exodus at seventeen, inherited the writing when Kirk Hammett left for Metallica, and has played on every record the band ever made. Then he spent eight years holding Jeff Hanneman'...
By Declan Rourke
Explainers
Most of the lettering on doom metal sleeves was bought from a catalogue rather than drawn, from Victorian display capitals to phototype faces and a digital blackletter. We follow the typefac...
By Ilse Brandt
Essential Albums
Six sludge records that sank for reasons of paperwork rather than music: a shelved master, a band that split within a year, a label that went bust. Each comes with its date, label and two so...
By Gareth Llewellyn
Eirik Solvang
Black Metal
How Black Metal Vocals Got That Shape
Andrzej Sawicki
Blackened Death
Viking, Folk and Everything Else Death Metal Absorbed
Rafael Quintero
Death Metal
Why Death Metal Became So Extreme
Gareth Llewellyn
Grindcore
The Underrated Sludge Metal Albums
Ilse Brandt
Doom Metal
The Doom Metal Fonts
Declan Rourke
Heavy Metal
What Thrash Metal Actually Is: Sound, Speed and Style
| Date | Band | Album | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Sep 2026 | Soulers | Watching the Whole Tragedy with Bated Breath | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Lacrimas Profundere | Lay Me Down O Silent Fear | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Metalite | Discovery | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Stryper | Throne of Thorns | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Godflesh | Decay | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | The Ocean | Solaris | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Nokturnal Mortum | Біль | Hurt | EP |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Aborym | Metachaos | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Night Laser | Rats in the Cradle | Full-length |
