It really is Metal Mark’s birthday today. He’s at work today and he’s getting drunk tonight. He’s at work tomorrow as well. It’s what he does. This is why you really ought to read about his Heavy Metal life.

Hola Metal Friends! So February is the shortest month of the year, yet in Atlanta this year, [...]

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On Monday, Bedfordshire punk’n’rollers, The Smoking Hearts, self-released their debut album Pride of Nowhere on their own George Street Records. With 13 songs clocking in at under 30 minutes, it rattles around with the shitkicker spirit of Backyard Babies, if perhaps they hotwired a Mustang, sandblasted the gloss and glam clear off it, and drove it [...]

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We shouldn’t need to tell you just how frickin’ awesome Dorset sludge-doom titans Ramesses are – after all, we pretty much demanded earlier this year that you go see them play live. And those among you that heeded our advice might’ve spotted that the band’s drummer, Mark Greening – also a former sticksmith for the mighty Electric [...]

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This week we had a tough decision as to who we’d give our slightly-ridiculous award in recognition of immense facial growth. Mainly because the first non-British winner of the prize had two great rivals to the accolade within his own band.

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…then you could do a whole shit less well than coming down to Brixton anyway, as the cosmic riff rumble of Invasion will be playing a free show just up the road at The Rest Is Noise. Actually, even if you’re one of the poor multitude that isn’t lucky enough to live in grimy, dirty, beautiful [...]

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What’s going on my metal friends! After two months I have returned to let you in on what I’ve been up to. Some of you may have been worried that I died of alcohol poisoning, maybe I should have three or four times, but I’m here! Luckily I could spend more on alcohol recently, since [...]

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It all started because of Far. We thought we’d break the chains, leave the cynicism at the gate, and make a Sunday Spotify Slaylist of crooning, sexy, heavy metal. We even found a couple of tracks on Spotify that fitted the bill….but…but then…
Needless to say, we failed. Big time.

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After the bizarre – but not unexpected – popularity of last week’s inaugural Beard of Week, we received plenty of emails with nominations for future weeks. But none came with a picture as sinister as this week’s winner. We’ll admit it: we were too terrified not to let him win.

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This coming Friday, the mighty Dillinger Escape Plan are playing not one, but two sold-out shows at the Camden Barfly in London. And squashed between the two shows, Thrash Hits will be sticking a video camera in the bands’ collective face and shouting questions at them – questions we want you to provide. Yep, we’ll [...]

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It’s been a bloody excellent few months for those Georgia sludge-prog types, Baroness. So much so in fact, that we sent Hugh Platt to corner bassist Summer Welch while he tried to roll cigarettes on the back stairs of the Camden Underworld, to demand the secrets of their success. And their beards.

First off Summer – the big [...]

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