An intimate 3000 capacity hometown show? Is it a Download Festival 2012 warm-up show or are Black Sabbath simply testing the waters? Hmmmm

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Mutilation Rites Empyrean Prosthetic 22 May 2012 by Tom Dare Brief Guide On How To Make Black Metal In 2012: 1) Pick your basic influence. This should be a Scandinavian band active in the early 1990s or Bathory. 2) Decide whether to A) simply rip off said band or B) do something new. If A), [...]

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Torche Harmonicraft Volcom 23 April 2012 by David Keevil When an album comes along that fits so inherently into the stride of your life, it’s often difficult to tell whether it’s because it’s so inconspicuous that it barely registers or that it’s a monumental moment in the history of your consumption of music. Harmonicraft, the [...]

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Matt Skiba And The Sekrets Babylon Superball Music 07 May 2012 by Ruth Booth Regular readers of Thrash Hits will remember we ran this photo a while ago, with a certain amount of disbelief. With his penchant for wry, dark romance, if Alkaline Trio’s frontman took a cue from any Lost Boys, our money would’ve [...]

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Nachtvorst Silence code666 14 May 2012 by Tom Dare If the world has seemed like a beautiful, wonderful place recently – if you’ve had joy in your heart and a spring in your step, if you’ve been listening to the new Anathema album way too much and you just saved a bundle on your car [...]

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Lostprophets Weapons Epic Records 02 April 2012 by Tom Dare Welsh chart-botherers, Lostprophets, are back once more. We know you love to mock them, people of the Internet, but we also know you know all the words to ‘Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja’ and ‘Rooftops’. You can try and deny it, but we know the truth. The [...]

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When Thrice announced their hiatus last year, post-hardcore lost one of its most genuine and earnest bands. But Thrice weren’t about to say goodbye without doing things right, and hit the road for a farewell tour. Ruth Booth dodged a sea of touts in Kentish Town and got ready to blub her eyes out.

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Horseback Half Blood Relapse Records 08 May 2012 by Jon Kerr Half Blood is a deeply depressing and schizophrenic album. Jenks Miller, the chief creative force behind Horseback, has created an album very much of two halves – with each not entirely complimenting the other.

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Architects are back after 2011’s ambitious The Here And Now with their fifth album, Daybreaker. And it’s really fucking good. Shame they lost their guitarist.

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Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion Roadrunner Records 07 May 2012 by Tom Dare What happens when two of the most inspired, talented, and generally superb musicians in progressive metal get together? What have Opeth genius, Mikael Åkerfeldt, and Porcupine Tree maestro Steven Wilson birthed when mixing their mighty musical chromosomes? I’ll save you the piss-poor attempts [...]

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