Apologies in advance to any of the Thrash Hits faithful who decline to feast upon the beautifully chargrilled remains of our hopefully four-legged friends but…
We thought we were being mildly celebratory and vaguely humourous when we wished you a Happy Heavy Metal Pancake Day but over in LA, a couple of meat-savvy metalheads have created [...]

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…Gallows, Skunk Anansie, Fightstar, Funeral For A Friend, Madina Lake, Family Force 5 and Apocalyptica. Anyone that’s read Thrash Hits for longer than five minutes will know that while Sonisphere’s announcement of some of those bands will have plastered a great big smile across our faces, there’s no way we can pretend that a couple of those bands [...]

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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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Exactly what is says up there in the title – Thrash Hits’ favourites, The Ghost Of A Thousand, have been announced as the headline act for the third and final night of the first Hellfire Club event in May. Fucking A.

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Let’s just get straight down to business: the almighty Canuck quartet, Cancer Bats, have released a video to their actually-pretty-fucking-awesome cover of the Beastie Boys’ ‘Sabotage’. And in the the few minutes before some wise-ass makes a copy of it and uploads it onto YouTube, all you need to do to see it is spread [...]

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Twisted Sister are ridiculous. You know this. We know this. Dee Snider knows this, and it’s his bloody band. They are, however, ridiculous for all the right reasons, which is why we’re pleased as punch that they’ve been announced as the final Main Stage headliner for Bloodstock Open Air 2010.

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…Lamb of God, 30 Seconds To Mars, Billy Idol, Stone Sour, and Five Finger Death Punch.
Goody, goody gumdrops. I think the diplomatic response to that is something along the lines of “well, at least there’s something for everyone”.

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…Aerosmith and Rage Against The Machine.
Was anyone else expecting that? We’d be lying if we said it came as a surprise to us. We’re sure that all sorts of people are voicing meaningless opinions over on Twitter right now as we speak. Or the Download Festival forums, if they haven’t crashed under the sheer weight [...]

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Yes, yes, we know that Chinese New Year was yesterday but Sunday was already being spent doing Valentine’s Day stuff like creating a great V-Day Spotify Slaylist and going to see The Ghost Of A Thousand in a Camden grothole.
Ultimately, this Chinese year is the year of the Yang Metal Tiger. Is this the opposite [...]

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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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