Hailing from Frankfurt, Tankard have been one of the flag bearers of the Teutonic thrash metal scene along with Kreator, Sodom and Destruction and are responsible for developing the prototype for fast songs in honor of alcohol. The band consists of [...]
I had come to accept the grim reality that thrash would never be the same again and that it would never go back to its glory days of the ‘80s when the genre saw the likes of the Big Four, Exodus, Overkill, Kreator etc. write music that was [...]
“When we made Turbo, we kinda shook the cage a little bit” – Rob Halford ‘Shook the cage’ is definitely an understatement, considering the fact that ‘Turbo’ was a glam album put out by a band that was at the [...]
If there is one band that everybody has a love/ hate relationship with, it has to be Metallica. While they engender a venomous hatred in anyone who sees them present awards to members of the Mickey Mouse club at some sleazy MTV award show, the band [...]
Patience (fuck the literary code) Swag is a virtue that should be respected and not taken for granted. I mean, in a world where Miley Cyrus Instagram pictures of hand prints on her ass cheeks, how many people do you know who ooze the ‘rock [...]
The New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal: an attempt awakening of the post-millennium crop of teenagers who were fortunate enough to find tapes of Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Accept and King Diamond hidden safely in the secret compartment of their [...]
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change”. – Charles Darwin It is hard to imagine the collective impact of the brobdinangian concussion [...]
When his friend told him about Israfel, ex-Church of Misery member Tom Sutton’s eyes widened and he knew he had found a subject from which he could derive the perfect band name. Israfel: ‘One of the four archangels of Islam, he is the angel of [...]
