Welcome to Thrash Hits.

It all started in Spring 2008 when we wondered why there weren’t any good metal blogs coming out of the UK.

Sure, Blabbermouth services the whole world and their dog, and the US has given us the hilarious Metal Sucks and the polished Metal Injection, but none of the UK rock and metal magazines had quite stepped up to the online plate.

Since we started in May 2008, we have seen our friends at Kerrang!, Metal Hammer, Rock Sound and Terrorizer up their game but with a magazine on the shelves of every newsagent and supermarket, their advantage wasn’t and still isn’t being used to its full potential.

After being active for less than a year, with around 80,000 thrashers reading this site in February 2009, we can make the bold claim that only Kerrang! and Metal Hammer are bigger than us but, of course, it’s all about being better, not bigger.

Our writers have been published in all of those magazines, but you don’t have to pay to read them here. We do not belong to a publishing company and we do not rely on advertising to do what we do.

Contributors past and present include… Alex Andrews, Adam Anonymous, Ruth Booth, Paul Caudell, Vincent Danger, Tom Dare, Tom Doyle, Gareth Dobson, Jerry Ewing, George Fernandez, Salvadore Fernandez, Sadie Gabriel, Tom Gibbons, Ben Gibson, Tim Goode, Tony Hampton, Lock Johnson, David Keevill, Danielle Kelly, Jon Kerr, Pete Lockey, Abbi London, Angie Louder, Joel McIver, Danny Montana, Luke Morton, Bob Mulhouse, Andy Parker, Mischa Pearlman, Dan Pelic, Hugh Platt, Raziq Rauf, Ali Ryland, Amit Sharma, Graham Shackleton, James Shitty, Joe Shooman, Robin Sparkles, Charley Staniforth, Matt Thomas, Anne Waites, Ryan Williams, Gary Wolstenholme and Lynsey Wright among others.

Try and figure out which great writers the pseudonyms belong to in real life. We dare you.

You cannot buy your place on this website. There will be no conflicts of interest. Everything you read on this website will be written without prejudice. If it’s good enough or bad enough, it’ll be here.

We have a single aim and that is to be the best. Once we achieve that status, we have no doubt that Thrash Hits will be the #1 destination for everything rock and metal.

After you’ve read everything that we’ve got to say, we pass the reins over to you. This is Thrash Hits and we’re here to stay. We hope you enjoy yourselves.

Raziq Rauf, Editor – February 2009
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