Bullet For My Valentine
Temper Temper
Sony Music
11 February 2013

by Raziq Rauf

Something occurred to me whilst hearing ‘Temper Temper’ on Radio 1 whilst lying in bed. I thought the title track to the Welsh quartet’s fourth album was a fucking abomination. Causing short circuits in my brain, however, was the fact I also genuinely enjoy going to see this band live. This handy combination of first-hand knowledge of my past actions coupled with my instant reaction to their shitty song on the radio could mean only one thing: I only enjoy Bullet For My Valentine when I’m drunk.

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You may have seen our article harping on about being a partner on Foursquare. It’s good. It’s already shown us that we go to the Crobar too often but because of that, we did our first Heavy Metal Tourism guide to London and we based it all on this fair city’s watering holes.

Next up? You’ve done drinking, so now it’s time to go see some bands. We’re not going to tell you to go to Brixton Academy or Wembley Arena. That’s obvious. You know that stuff already. The smaller places, however, might be news to you so here are a bunch of awesome pubs and bars in London which also have bands playing. You can also get drunk in them, FYI.

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You may have seen our last article harping on about being a partner on Foursquare. It’s good. It’s already shown us that we go to the Crobar too often.

We thought we’d start being helpful by collating a few of our favourite tips for you to get you going. Seeing as it’s January and we’re a bit contrary, Team Thrash Hits is on a retox. That involves getting really, really drunk because there aren’t that many gigs on. Here are our favourite places to do such things without the botheration of concentrating on heavy metal and drinking. First tip? Crobar.

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As you probably know by now Thrash Hits and all that sail in her do their thing in London. We go to gigs, we get drunk, we go on heavy metal pilgrimages, we get drunk again. It’s a constant. This is why we reckon we’re in the best position to help you find all the Heavy Metal highlights in the city we call home.

The awesome people at location-based social network, Foursquare agreed and have made us one of their brand partners. You should go and check out our page on Foursquare, become our friend (we’ve already got >400 but we want MORE!) and go follow our tips. You will (probably) not be sorry.

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With festival season just round the corner (Download Festival is less than 4 weeks away!), Thrash Hits is lamenting over the weather’s probable effect on one of our more obscure festival pastimes – “Spot The Over-Dressed Festival Goth”.

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