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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Well, we’re about wrapped up here at Thrash Hits for 2009…there’s still a few more things to post before the big two-oh-one-oh, but for the most part, we’re done. And here with our last Slaylist of 2009, we’re offering up the choice cuts from our critics’ albums of the year.

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So here it is – the third and final week of our Christmas-themed Sunday Spotify Slaylist. If you ain’t filled to the gills with musical Christmas spirit by now, then frankly you must be a right royal Scrooge. And no-one likes a Scrooge at Christmas.

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It’s week two for our Christmas-themed Sunday Spotify Slaylist, so rather than waste time reading this blurb, why don’t you click the link down below and get to the music after the jump?

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Just because it’s Christmas, you didn’t think we’d be scrimping of our Sunday Spotify Slaylists, did you? We’ve made a Christmas-themed Slaylist so gargantuan, we’ve had to split it into three parts – it’s over 7 hours in total!

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After a couple of weeks absence, our Sunday Spotify Slaylists are back – we’re resuming our series of label tributes with another British indie label, Peaceville Records. Although the label was founded as an outlet for crust-punk, it was with the gloomy atmospheric doom-stylings of Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride and Anathema that the label [...]

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There’s nothing we like better here at Thrash Hits than celebrating a British success story – and that’s exactly why we’ve dedicated this week’s Sunday Spotify Slaylist to Visible Noise. For the last decade, the leading indie label has been at the forefront of giving Brit-talent their first and second steps up the ladder.

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It’s just a week away now – the Thrash Hits-sponsored Hellfire II Festival is going to turn Birmingham upside down, with the strongest line-up of a British Winter metal festival since…well…ever! Which is why we’ve dedicated this week’s Sunday Spotify Slaylist to the bands playing next weekend’s event.

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Yeah we know – Halloween isn’t till next Saturday. But if we waited till next Sunday to post our Halloween-themed Slaylist, we’d end up posting the it after Halloween had finished – and what the fuck is the point in that?

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There’s no doubt about it – compiling the fourth Slaylist in our record label-themed series was the toughest yet. Why? Because Nuclear Blast have so many damn fine records available on Spotify, it was almost impossible to whittle them down to a manageable selection.

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