This week’s Slaylist isn’t so much a single playlist, but a recommendation to check out a podcast – the one in question being Valient Himself’s awesome Rocknowledgy. In case you’re some kind of slowpoke who is behind the times, Valient Himself is the frontman of Valient Thorr,

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It’s the long-awaited second part of History of the Hawk’s European tour diary. Have they been cursed by a gypsy?

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When Emmure’s PR emailed us and offered us an interview, we umm-ed and ahhh-ed over whether to take them up on the offer. After all, on the one hand, we had our carefully maintained rep as snobbish internet musical neckbeards to maintain, and interviewing a band like Emmure runs pretty contrary to the conditions of [...]

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If you asked us to put together a list of the most genuine, the coolest, and generally most all-round solid dudes that we’d interviewed here at Thrash Hits, then Doc Coyle, guitarist from God Forbid, would be right there at the top. When we chatted to him a few years ago at Download, he put up [...]

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Well played, Mr. Hetfield, well played…. (c/o Metal Injection, Metal Sucks, and a whole load of other places)

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As you’ll no doubt have heard by now, on Friday 04 May 2012, Adam Yauch – aka MCA – from the Beastie Boys, died after losing his battle against cancer of the parotid salivary gland. He was just 47 years old. To mark this sad occasion, this week’s Sunday Spotify Slaylist is dedicated to his memory, by way of [...]

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Today marks International Jawbreaker Appreciation Day – a perfect excuse to celebrate the rise and fall of a band that once wrote a song called ‘Sluttering (May 4th)’. We got Alex Andrews on the case. “There was a sun once. It lit the whole damn sky…” It’s difficult to pay tribute to a band that [...]

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Stourbridge experimental hardcore quintet, History Of The Hawk popped over to eastern Europe to play some gigs. Singer Nathan Coyle wrote a tour diary.

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With One Last Breath From: York, UK Lazy equation: (Glamour Of The Kill x Asking Alexandria) – $$$ URL: Facebook // Big Cartel // Twitter Thrash Hits verdict: People often claim that we’re elitist dickbags here at Thrash Hits. That’s kind of true – after all, life’s too short to listen to average music, let alone bad music. If being “elitish dickbags” [...]

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Last week, long-running gothicly-tinged progsters, Anathema, released Weather Systems, the highly-anticipated follow-up to 2010′s critical smash, We’re Here Because We’re Here. This gave us the perfect excuse to give the band’s frontman, Vincent Cavanagh, a call, and hope that our resident Anathema fanboy, Hugh Platt, wouldn’t get so excited that he’d forget all his carefully [...]

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