Metallica

1988 was a great year for thrash metal.

2012 represented the tail end to the heights of the thrash metal resurgence in the 2000s, with numerous strong albums released that year by both the old and new guard.

The stories of H.P. Lovecraft have had not only a dramatic impact upon horror and science-fiction literature, but also upon the wider cultural world.

Anyone saying to me ‘Metallica haven’t been any good since the late nineties’ wouldn’t get much truck from me, save for perhaps a little bickering over the actual descent into medi

Thirty years? Is it really thirty years since Jaymz first intoned the immortal ‘No life til Leather’ line at the start of Hit the Lights and changed the world?

I almost expected an accent as thick as swamp mud but when John Baizley, artist, guitarist and vocalist with Baroness, gets on the phone I find him both articulate

Forty-something years after Black Sabbath terrified and repulsed audiences with their dark and ten-tonne-he

There’s a lot to be said for international phone-calls but when they fuck up, they fuck up on a grand scale.

Onslaught. For a brief while in the eighties they looked like being Britain's best bet for stemming the tide of American and German thrash that was flooding the ears of metalheads