The Thrash Hits Cloudcast returns for 2014, and our opening episode is made up of the seven Song Of The Day choices we’ve been posting on our Twitter feed. Why aren’t you following us already? You are? You’re cool. You’re okay. You can stay.

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Job For A Cowboy
Demonocracy
Metal Blade
10 April 2012

by Tom Dare

Job For A Cowboy have had something of a rough ride from Thrash Hits for a couple of years. Hugh wasn’t a fan of last album Ruination, and I gave the last EP Gloom a minor kicking. That might make you think they’re a band we’ve got something against. We don’t – far from it. I still fucking love debut album Genesis, and want to see a clearly talented young death metal band succeed. Does new album Demonocracy see the band get back on track?

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It’s Friday night, and you’ve got to ask yourself one question – why wouldn’t you want to watch a video of Job For A Cowboy and Cephalic Carnage’s bass player, Nick Schendzielos, pretending to be in a jungle and knocking out some solo funk jams on his bass?

You’re at home on a Friday night. What else you gonna do?

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Job For A Cowboy
Gloom EP
Metal Blade
07 June 2011

by Tom Dare

You don’t want to draw too many conclusions from a 15-minute EP, but there are a few causes for concern over Job For A Cowboy’s latest offering Gloom. Whenever music this heavy is this placidly undramatic – regardless of whether it’s a full length or not – it’s generally not a good sign.

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So what have all these bands got in common? They’ve all been “officially” announce for Donwload 2010? Hurrah! (Please remember to divide your excitement by how much you’ve been paying attention to the rumour mill). ETC ETC. What? You want the actual band names? Then you better check after the jump then, shouldn’t you?

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Almost a year to the day since their last London show, Lamb of God returned to Brixton on Saturday. We sent the new kid, Tom Dare, to investigate.

Once again, Lamb of God prove why they have built a reputation as one of the live bands of recent years. Once again, the PA does its utmost to fuck things up for them.

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Job For A Cowboy
Ruination
Metal Blade
6 July 2009

by Hugh Platt

There’s a good reason why this review is late. Job For A Cowboy‘s latest may have been rumbling on our stereos here at Thrash Hits for a couple of weeks now, but for all the promise offered up on their last album, and the excitement about the crazy mutilated goat-pope all over the cover of this one, Ruination just hasn’t been able to excite or disgust us enough to inspire us to put finger to keyboard.

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Resident photographer Gary Wolstenholme headed over to Norway this week to visit the quite fantastic Hove Festival.

True to form, Gary’s been snapping away and has got some brilliant shots of what looks like an awesome festival. Check out our photo gallery right here.

Hove Festival 2008 photo gallery: