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Orden Ogan – Final Days

March 1, 2021

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

Joshua Bulleid

January 25, 2021

Best of 2020, Into the Pit

Howdy Headbangers, 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 // Q3 2020

Joshua Bulleid

October 5, 2020

Into the Pit

Howdy headbangers, Let's get the sad stuff out of the way upfront. The thrash world lost a major figure with the unexpected passing of Power Trip frontman Riley Gale last month. I'm not going to pretend I h... Read More...

Into the Pit // Q1 2020

Joshua Bulleid

March 31, 2020

Into the Pit

Howdy headbangers! Josh here, I'm officially taking over Into the Pit while Pete's off trying to make the world a better place and whatnot. This means two things: a) it's gonna get a whole lot groovier around h... Read More...

Into the Pit – 2019 Wrap-Up And Playlist Swap

Joshua Bulleid

December 16, 2019

Best of 2019, Into the Pit

Happy holidays, fellow moshers! Once again, we find ourselves at the end of the year. A calendar is about to get thrown out just to be replaced by another one with a new number on it. But what a year it was! 20... Read More...

Meshiaak – Mask Of All Misery

Joshua Bulleid

November 13, 2019

Reviews

Meshiaak's debut album, Alliance of Thieves (2016), is one of the best thrash metal albums to ever come out of Australia. A supergroup of sorts, featuring current and ex-members of 4Arm and Terramaze, the Melbo... Read More...

Best of Closing Tracks

Heavy Blog

November 5, 2019

Best Of, Lists!

An album doesn't really end when its last note is sounded. Or, at least, great albums don't; there are definitely works out there that only span the time during which the music is playing. But truly great rele... Read More...

Into The Pit – Playlist Swap

Joshua Bulleid

August 14, 2019

Into the Pit

Following our mailbag post last week, Pete and I thought we'd get further antiquated with a good old-fashioned Heavy Blog is Heavy playlist swap. We each put together a list of the songs that we thought best de... Read More...

Into the Pit: Thrash Metal Mailbag

Pete Williams

August 8, 2019

Into the Pit

Hello fellow pit-sters! This month, I thought we could do something a little different. You all know I’ve been playing fast and loose with the schedule of this column, and August will be no different! Fellow t... Read More...

Hey! Listen to Urne!

Joshua Bulleid

August 6, 2019

Listen To This!

No, not the last Ne Obliviscaris album or the Finnish black thrash band who have an album coming out next month; they're both just "Urn". No, not the blackened hardcore band from Melbourne who just kind of disa... Read More...

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