Yeah, we’ve all seen that sick list of hilarious exam answers where students take the piss a bit but here’s the best one.

It’s just the best one.

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Torche
Harmonicraft
Volcom
23 April 2012

by David Keevil

When an album comes along that fits so inherently into the stride of your life, it’s often difficult to tell whether it’s because it’s so inconspicuous that it barely registers or that it’s a monumental moment in the history of your consumption of music. Harmonicraft, the third studio album by Torche, undeniably falls into the latter bracket.

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Celebrate the great man’s life by listening to lots and lots and lots of Black Sabbath today. RIP RJD.

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Those not-nearly-as-praised-as-they-ought-to-be Reading metallers, Sylosis, finished their final UK tour before releasing their as-yet-untitled third studio album. Okay, so Sylosis do get a lot of praise, but that’s because they a) awesome, and b) they keep getting more awesome, which means c) that they deserve even more praise than they get already.

Anyway, we made sure our Liverpool snapper, Matt Thomas, was in place to snap the whole shebang when it rolled into his hometown.

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Well, we had a lot to say on the matter when the Bill Ward/Black Sabbath spat kicked off earlier this year, and the news has just come in that it’s now over: Bill Ward will not be playing any shows with the reformed Black Sabbath or ‘Ozzy & Friends’ line-ups that will tour the world this summer.

For more info – including Bill Ward’s statement on the matter – click the link below.

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You can see from the picture that the mega-selling Seattle grungers appeal to OAPs, but Nirvana are also loved by infants as well. Check out this kid’s parents waking him up with ‘Breed’. His reaction is… impressive.

Matt Skiba And The Sekrets
Babylon
Superball Music
07 May 2012

by Ruth Booth

Regular readers of Thrash Hits will remember we ran this photo a while ago, with a certain amount of disbelief. With his penchant for wry, dark romance, if Alkaline Trio’s frontman took a cue from any Lost Boys, our money would’ve been on these ones. But, aside from possible sponsorship by the local bird sanctuary, this photo told us two crucial things about Matt Skiba’s new project.

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We once joked that one of our photographers, Ben Gibson, took an exorbitant number of shots of band members’ crotches and/or band members engaging in mid-air splits. We only meant it as a bit of light-hearted ribbing, but our boy Ben seems to have taken it to heart, and now sees it as a mark of honour to get as many in-air shots as possible into the photo sets he sends us.

Though possibly a band like This Is Hell almost makes it too easy for him.

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Nachtvorst
Silence
code666
14 May 2012

by Tom Dare

If the world has seemed like a beautiful, wonderful place recently – if you’ve had joy in your heart and a spring in your step, if you’ve been listening to the new Anathema album way too much and you just saved a bundle on your car insurance renewal – then the new Nachtvorst album, Silence, will fix that for you in short order. This is an album to prove why the world is an awful, hopeless realm of torment and misery.

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Well played, Mr. Hetfield, well played….

(c/o Metal Injection, Metal Sucks, and a whole load of other places)