From: Anglesey, Wales
Sounds like: that feeling you get punching your worst enemy in the face till he goes home bleeding and crying
Website: www.MySpace.com/BSTNS
Thrash Hits verdict: Our deputy editor went seven shades of shit-mad for this lot last week – their Kingdom of Dogs EP practically gave him an epileptic fit at its blood-raw, young-Dillinger take on [...]

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From: Portsmouth, UK
Sounds like: Viking Skull, Clutch, Crowbar
Website: www.MySpace.com/BelligerenceRock
Thrash Hits verdict: Belligerence first got our attention when their frontman, Tim Brock, sent us an email claiming they’d made a video for the cost of 4 Co-Op sandwiches and a couple of Subway meals. We’re always hungry, so that got our attention. The riff-driven, hard-boiled Brit-sludge [...]

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From: London, UK
Sounds like: Mastodon, Torche, EyeHateGod
Website: www.MySpace.com/Astrohenge
Thrash Hits verdict: We’ve been itching to write more about Astrohenge since we first featured the vocalist-free four-piece in our review of Burnt By The Sun’s last ever UK show – Astrohenge’s hypnotic sludge riff-tsunami is something you need to experience in 2010. We put guitarists Matt Rozeik and Hugh Harvey [...]

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From: Shropshire, UK
Sounds like: Morbid Angel, Kreator, Acheron
Website: www.MySpace.com/ArceyeUK
Thrash Hits verdict: We heard about Arceye from a compadre we met at Bloodstock Open Air this year. We’re always partial to a bit of Thrash/Death action, so our next stop was to get their vocalist, Al Llewellyn, to go through our Future Hits treatment.

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Japanese Voyeurs
From: London, UK
Sounds like: Daisy Chainsaw, Babes In Toyland, Kyuss
Website: www.MySpace.com/JapaneseVoyeurs
Thrash Hits verdict: The grunge revival is alive and kicking right here in the UK of A and Japanese Voyeurs are most definitely one of the hottest frontrunners. Take some snarling/fuzzy ’90s guitars, add a superhot, slightly ditzy-sounding but still very, very angry frontwoman [...]

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From: New Jersey, US
Sounds like: Saves The Day, Taking Back Sunday, Far
Website: www.MySpace.com/LastDaysOfEmpire
Thrash Hits verdict: There seems to be an awful lot going on in New Jersey right now - not only did we stumble across the hardcore rock’n’roll of Chambers, but now we can also add the post-hardcore soundscapes of Last Days of Empire to our 2009 discovery-list. We [...]

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September Mourning have just finished touring in support of Marilyn Manson. Probably a good time to have a chinwag with their frontwoman, M Lazar, then isn’t it?

From: New York, USA
Sounds like: Otep, Daisy Chainsaw, Rob Zombie less-grubby cousin
Website: www.myspace.com/MLazar
Thrash Hits verdict: When one of our compadrés stateside let slip he was working with Marilyn Manson’s [...]

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From: Brighton, UK
Sounds like: As I Lay Dying, Clutch, Raging Speedhorn, The Haunted
Website: www.myspace.com/HTBM
Thrash Hits verdict: There simply aren’t enough straight out and out metal bands around. We’ve ended up in a world of diversification and niche genres, diluting the one thing we all love, deep and dirty metal. They’re already selling out shows nationwide [...]

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Having played their second ever show in a sweatpit basement with Gallows in last month, we thought it might be nice to have a chat with the chaps from monstrous, new New Jersey hardcore mob, Chambers. They’re pretty special.

From: New Jersey, USA
Sounds like: Gallows, The Ghost Of A Thousand, hardcore rock ‘n’ roll
Website: www.myspace.com/ChambersRock
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When you come from a city with as big a metal pedigree as Nottingham – the birthplace of Earache Records, Rock City and Iron Monkey – then making an impact can be a bit of a challenge.  Millicent Grove however, suffer no such troubles.

From: Nottingham, UK
Sounds like: Annotations Of An Autopsy, Iron Monkey, the howl [...]

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