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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The mega mutton-chopped Blaze Bayley is to replace Evile on the bill on the Saturday of the Hellfire II Festival, as the Huddersfield thrashers understandably have been forced to cancel their appearance following the death of Mike Alexander last week.

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With Hellfire Festival II only a matter of weeks away, we thought it was about time to offer up a nice prize so we got a pair of weekend tickets to the festival. Then we arranged a Meet & Greet with heavy metal legends, Saxon. Then we got a bunch of swag from Jägermeister to [...]

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Exit Ten lead the latest batch of names to be added to the bill of the Thrash Hits-sponsored Hellfire II Festival. The Berkshire band were part of the bill for the first Hellfire Festival back in February, so they should feel right at home on the bill for November’s event.

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Pennsylvania pranksters, CKY, have been confirmed as the Friday night headliners of the Hellfire II Festival, se tot take place at the NEC in Birmingham on November 6-8.

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It’s no secret that Cancer Bats make us all a little stiff here at Thrash Hits. And that’s not just because frontman Liam Cormier is a triple-threat mulleted-mentalist – Hail Destroyer is one of the few albums we all consider to be a stone-cold modern classic. So the fact that they’re getting on with the [...]

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Our compadrés over at the Thrash Hits-sponsored Hellfire II Festival have announced some further details over who’s playing where and when at the festival. Two of our fellow “media partners”, Terrorizer and Metal Hammer, have both released some details over who’s going to be gracing their respective sponsored-stages.

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