Into the Pit // Q1, 2021
Hey there Headbangers!
Has it been a stacked few months for thrash metal, or what! The thrash train kept right on rolling through Christmas and into the new year, with absolutely no sign of slowing down. On ... Read More...
AusMetal Rapidfire: Harvest Trail, Flaming Wreckage, and Stormtide
There’s so much great music coming out of Australia at the moment that it can be hard to keep up with it all. In order to alleviate some of the anxiety, here’s somce quick rapidfire reviews of three of the cou... Read More...
Architects – For Those Who Wish to Exist
Architects are well overdue a shake-up at this point. Holy Hell is a much stronger record than I first gave it credit for, but it still feel like a slightly less-potent rehash of the two (admittedly outstandin... Read More...
Orden Ogan – Final Days
From the moment Blind Guardian's stock started to fall following 2006's underrated-if-uneven A Twist in the Myth record, their countrymen in Orden Ogan stepped in with a series of ambitious, concept-driven rec... Read More...
Into the Pit // The Best (And Worst) Years for Thrash Metal
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Dropping another top ten list seemed a tad redundant, given that I've picked out a "Big Four" for each quarter of the year. Put those together and you effectively have a "Top 16" of 2020.... Read More...
Into the Pit // 2020 Stragglers
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Before we get into the best of the year shenanigans, we interrupt your normal Into the Pit programming to bring you a short post highlighting some later releases that didn't quite make it... Read More...
Deftones – Black Stallion
White Pony (2000) was the record that first introduced electronics into Deftones's sound. It is therefore suitable that the band would pay homage to the album, on its twentieth anniversary, with a star-studded ... Read More...
Into the Pit // Q4 2020
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The mathematicians among you will realise that this post technically shouldn't be hitting you until January. Although I usually hit you with these quarterly posts the month after a quarter e... Read More...
The Anatomy Of: White Walls
They say great minds think alike. So it can't be a coincidence that the very column you are reading and the brilliant Romanian progressive metal band White Walls both take their name from Between the Buried and... Read More...
EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: In Malice’s Wake Embrace Death On Gehenna
Having perfected the thrash genre with 2011's The Thrashening, In Malice's Wake have been leaning more and more into extreme metal acroos their last couple of releases. With "Gehenna" – the closing track form t... Read More...