Metallica

'Were Metallica dicks? No, they were really cool!' John Baizley chews the fat with Metal as Fuck...

John Baizley saved Soundwave 2010! What a legend!

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

Elimination – The Blood Of Titans (Transcend Music)

British thrash metal team eliminate the opposition with second album The Blood Of Titans.
Release Date: 
28 Nov 2011 (All day)

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

Evile's guitarist Ol Drake chews the fat...

Being sick on the van and eating breakfast with thrash legends...

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

Onslaught - Sounds of Violence (AFM)

Onslaught. Never were a band so aptly named? That's debatable, but this album is indeed a no-holds barred onslught on your sensibilites...
Release Date: 
19 Jan 2011 - 11:30pm

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

Alestorm's Chris Bowes talks pirates, chips and having sex with Kangaroos

What is the deal with pirate metal? Alestorm Keytarist Chris Bowes tries to explain...

Too many bands take themselves far too seriously; fortunately Alestorm don’t fall into this category, and the increasing popularity of ‘pirate metal’ seems to ind

Metallica Maul Melbourne (As Seen From The Photo Pit)

Combining this frenzy with Metallica’s bombastic appearance on stage made for a powerful jolt to the senses. For a minute, I forgot why I was there – so overwhelmed I was by the band before me. Last time I saw them was in the 80s on the ‘And Justice For All’ tour; and now, here I was, in the pit, feeling James Hetfield’s stare cut right through me.

It proved to be an amazing array of anxiousness and raw emotion today.

Gallery: Metallica, Fear Factory, The Sword Live @ Rod Laver Arena (Melbourne, Australia), 15 Sept 2010

Combining this frenzy with Metallica’s bombastic appearance on stage made for a powerful jolt to the senses. For a minute, I forgot why I was there – so overwhelmed I was by the band before me. Last time I saw them was in the 80s on the ‘And Justice For All’ tour; and now, here I was, in the pit, feeling James Hetfield’s stare cut right through me.

Frank Bello of Anthrax and the Melting Pot of Metal

An album that's been six arduous years in the making, a band with a revolving door of vocalists - there hasn't been much light for Anthrax recently. But now revitalised, bassist Frank Bello is feeling only one thing; excitement.

If there's one thing that veteran Anthrax bassist Frank Bello is feeling, its excitement. Pure, unadulterated excitement. Why wouldn't you?

Savage Messiah - Insurrection Rising (Candlelight/Earsplit)

Guitar work that will make you drawl, riffs that will make your head bang, songs that will make you punch the air – UK band Savage Messiah have put together a near-flawless thrash metal classic!

Savage Messiah’s second album Insurrection Rising, their first on Candlelight, screams old school thrash metal.