thrash Archives - Trebuchet

Downfall of Nothing! (Nervosa)

04/06/2018

Thrash Metal is a scene dominated by the same old household names... Can some fresh faces in Brazilian upstarts Nervosa clamber onto that level, too, with new album 'Downfall of Mankind'?...

Pissed Regardless – Feed The Birds (Review)

05/02/2018

Crossover Thrash is a fickle beast. Have Californian newcomers Pissed Regardless managed to crack the code with their sophomore EP effort 'Feed The Birds'? Fraggle investigates....

Tankard – A Compilation of Inebriation

20/01/2018

Thrash Metal, like most genres, has its tropes. Those same reoccurring themes which pop up in the lyrics, inspirations or meanings behind the songs....

Death, Thrash, Horror. No Garlic: With Primeval Force (Vampire)

11/05/2017

Vampire's second album, With Primeval Force, has all the fangs it needs...

The dissonant tritone thing is very particular: Vovoid (Interview)

08/12/2016

Vovoid's Denis 'Snake' Bélanger shares some nuggets (of wisdom) at Camden's Underworld...

We just count on four and yell. Nico Elgstrand interview (Entombed A.D.)

01/12/2016

Catching up with Entombed A.D.'s Nico Elgstrand for Grieg, Mozart and some yelling....

I ballroom danced in Norwich the other night: King Parrot (Interview)

09/11/2016

Extreme metal never smelled so bad. King Parrot's Matthew Young on dreams, dancing and digestion....

A Refined and Technical Stitch Up: Autopsy (Coroner)

03/11/2016

Reanimating the corpse of a tech metal troupe who should have been HUGE...

Killer Cocktail: Incoming Death (Asphyx)

08/10/2016

Fusing doom and death, and even a touch of thrash, Asphyx get the balance spot-on...

Summer Dies Slowly: August Metal Meltdown

08/08/2016

A summer of death, filth, junkie Olympians and the Zika virus needs an appropriate soundtrack. Metal meltdown ahoy....

Beyond the Big Four. Unheralded but Solid Thrash (Flotsam & Jestsam)

14/06/2016

Will it float, or should we jettison it? Flotsam & Jetsam dish up the thrash....

Dark, Relentless Glory: Monthly Metal Medley

27/01/2016

In the midst of death... Heavy Metal, that most persistent and insidious weed, offers up new releases from Witchcraft, Ghost Witch, Gomorrah and Conan. We review....

When Society Starts to Eat Itself: Dystopia (Megadeth)

14/01/2016

Lyrics decrying the state of today's society delivered with a backdrop of technically precise and relentless thrash, Mustaine and his boys prove that there is still life in the Megadeth machine. ...