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Hammerfest 2013: Candlemass – Saturday, 16 March 2013
Candlemass may have stopped releasing albums, but with new(ish) frontman, Mats Levén, they’re not slowing down (ha ha!) their live gigging schedule. DID YOU SEE WHAT WE DID THERE? Hell is missing a...
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Hammerfest 2013: Sodom – Saturday, 16 March 2013
While Savage Messiah covered the Brit-Thrash angle, you can’t really have a European metal festival without a bit of German thrash, can you? That’s a rhetorical question, by the way, so you really...
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Hammerfest 2013: Angel Witch – Saturday, 16 March 2013
Now that Carcass are officially back to being A Thing with A New Album on the go, we’re not sure how long Bill Steer is going to stay in Angel Witch. He looks like he had a grand old time at...
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Hammerfest 2013: Saint Vitus – Saturday, 16 March 2013
Saint Vitus are one of the grand old bands of US doom, but their long age has done little to dent their purpose – if anything, Saint Vitus have got heavier with age. Kind of like a fine wine, if the...
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Hammerfest 2013: Napalm Death – Saturday, 16 March 2013
Napalm Death are the dependable grandfathers of grind. Not sure they’d be happy with that description but hey, we just said it anyway. They were bloody noisy at Hammerfest 2013, regardless. Napalm...
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Live + Photos: Hammerfest V – 16 March 2013
Day 3 of Hammerfest is traditionally the “oh my God no more booze NO” day – did our man David Keevill survive? 6 things we learned on Day 3 of Hammerfest V: 1) We like to be surprised. The fiery...
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Live: Cancer Bats, Turbowolf + Brutality Will Prevail @ London KOKO – 15...
If you don’t like Cancer Bats, we’re not sure we can stay friends. If you also don’t like Turbowolf, well…let’d not even talk about that. If you don’t like Brutality Will Prevail…okay, we;ll let that...
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Hammerfest 2013: Reviews, Photos, Setlists, Gossip – it’s all here
It’s time for another Thrash Hits festival splash page – and this time it’s for Hammerfest. All of our Hammerfest 2013 coverage from the weekend will be linked to on this here post, so make sure you...
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Live & Photos: Finch + Mallory Knox @ Manchester Ritz –19 March 2013
It’s been ten years since the release of Finch’s debut album What It Is To Burn. Feeling old yet? Let’s face it, most of you reading this are here because you’re off to the remaining dates on this new...
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Live: Palm Reader, Floods + The Catharsis @ London Rattlesnake – 24 March 2013
There might not have been many people there (Sunday night gigs can GTFO) but Gavin Lloyd was at Palm Reader’s Islington show to catch all the carnage. Even if, err, the more unfortunate part of that...
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Live: The Gaslight Anthem + Japandroids @ London Troxy – 29 March 2013
Tom Doyle is a good boy (when he’s not provoking bands into threatening to headbutt him or writing letters about pop music, that is). He recycles. He cleans the dishes after he’s finished eating. And...
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Live: Weezer + NOFX @ Punkspring Festival – Osaka, Japan – 30 March 2013
Most of our readers might not be familiar with the name Will Beardmore, but he’s the guy working feverishly behind the scenes on the long-awaited, much-trumped, and forever-delayed Thrash Hits...
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Live: Paramore @ London Highbury Garage – 05 April 2013
If we had to describe Tom Doyle, we probably would come up with a better description of him than “the fastest phone user in the world”. But he was quick enough to snag a ticket for Paramore’s...
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Live: Emmure, Chelsea Grin + Atilla @ London Islington Academy – 12 April 2013
Some of us here at Thrash Hits are card-carrying members of the #NoFunClub. Thankfully, Tom ‘You Are Not Better Than Pop Music‘ Doyle isn’t one of them. That’s why we sent him to watch Emmure, Chelsea...
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Live: Propagandhi, Comeback Kid + Shai Hulud @ London Electric Ballroom – 17...
Propagandhi, Comeback Kid and Shai Hulud playing on the same bill is as good a punk line-up as 2013 gigs are likely to see. With that in mind, we sent Tom ‘You Are Not Better Than Pop Music‘ Doyle...
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Live: Desertfest – Saturday 27 April 2013
We didn’t go to the Friday of Desertfest 2013 because we have jobs and couldn’t get the time off. Yeah, that sucked. Still, it meant Hugh Platt was 50% less “fragrant” than the vast amounts of beards...
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Live: Desertfest – Sunday 28 April 2013
For the third and final day of Desertfest 2013, we hand over review duties to Rob McAuslan, and see how the bearded stoners gathered in London handle a third day of booze, riffs, and Camden...
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Live: Meshuggah vs The Devin Townsend Project @ London Brixton Academy – 03...
Having headlined the Roundhouse in October, Devin Townsend returns to London in this special one-off show with Meshuggah. It’s the Swedish djent masters’ first UK show since Hevy Festival last summer...
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Live: Hatebreed @ London Islington Academy – 04 May 2013
Hatebreed are one of the most consistently excellent live bands around. They always have been and probably always will be so we headed down to the first properly sweaty gig of the year to see Jamey...
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Live: Killswitch Engage @ London Shepherds Bush Empire – 05 May 2013
It’s the first Killswitch Engage w/ Jesse Leach London show ever and their first gig over here since Download Festival last summer and it’s well and truly sold out. It’s more than just a homecoming....
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