For a lot of bands, having your record label implode beneath you would be considered an event somewhere between “world-shattering fuck-up” to “band-destroying disaster”. Fightstar don’t think like that though – when their former home, Gut Records, died in 2008, they dusted themselves off, recorded a brand new album, then got back on the road. [...]

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Sundays? What are the good for? Asolutely fuck all (unless you’re enjoying one of our Slaylists, of course). Well, last weekend, Andy Parker found some solace from the shittest day of the week at Surfaces’ gig down in Brighton.

Sunday shows are always a gamble. More often than not, the punters are spread far and wide across the dance [...]

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It’d be all too easy to make a joke that this year’s Kerrang! Relentless Energy Tour is headlined by All Time Low. But then we got thinking: maybe the band picked that name as a pre-emptive defence mechanism? That way, if anyone mouthing off on the internet made a joke about them being rubbish, they [...]

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Okay, before we go any further, we want to make it clear that we here at Thrash Hits no way endorse mindless acts of vandalism to either public or private property. Even when it seems like a demented Slayer fan is the one doing it.

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Metalcore, Deathcore, anything-you-want-to-call-it-core: is there anything metal fans like to do more than bitch over which particular sub-genre of metal a band “belongs” to? We bet plenty that every band on The Hard Knock Life Tour is bloody well sick of hearing the arguments.

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Those Taiwanese melodic black metallers ChthoniC, finally discovered the true (tr00) meaning of grim last night when they played a gig in Sheffield. ONLY KIDDING – we’re not all soft southern-types here at Thrash Hits. Our top man with a camera, Gary Wolstenholme, was there to take some snaps.

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As much as we admire the gumption of the Imperial Never Say Die! tour to bring so many bands out on the road together, there’s something about having to put an exclamation mark in the middle of a sentence that has always irritated us a bit. We’re ot sure if it irritates our top photographer, Gary [...]

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There’s gore-grind, there’s death metal, then there’s Cannibal Corpse. When it comes to songs about doing unspeakable things to dead bodies with power tools and/or penises, they’re pretty much the daddies. So when the guts-obsessed five-piece hammered Sheffield flat yesterday, we made sure our top photographer, Gary Wolstenholme was down at the front to capture [...]

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When Alexisonfire lef the Eastpak Antidote Tour to Brighton for a last-minute show, our long-standing local snapper Andy Parker was there to capture the melee

Alexisonfire finally returned to Brighton on a near un-scheduled stop on the Eastpak Tour. The show sold out in just four days, and it shows, with wall to wall die-hard fans strutting their [...]

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Dutch math-metallers, Textures, chose to play a one-off show in London as the final show in support of their Silhouettes album. Hugh Platt went along to do the words; Paul Caudell was there to do the pictures.

As far as opening acts for Dutch tech-experimentalists Textures go, we’re finding it hard to think of someone less suited [...]

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