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If you plotted Marduk’s career output on a bar chart rating them on quality, the picture would look like a city centre planned by a complete lunatic. Starting out playing some of the (then) most acerbic music around as one of Sweden’s earliest post-Bathory black metal bands, they began a worrying decline, only to completely revive their fortunes three albums back. Serpent Sermon, their fourth album with vocalist Mortuus and their twelfth in all, aims to continue their blasphemous campaign of hate.

Tom Dare takes a look at Marduk’s track record as he gets stuck in to his review of Serpent Sermon, the band’s twelfth album.

If you plotted Marduk’s career output on a bar chart rating them on quality, the picture would look like a city centre planned by a complete lunatic. Starting out playing some of the (then) most acerbic music around as one of Sweden’s earliest post-Bathory black metal bands, they began a worrying decline, only to completely revive their fortunes three albums back. Serpent Sermon, their fourth album with vocalist Mortuus and their twelfth in all, aims to continue their blasphemous campaign of hate.

Tom Dare takes a look at Marduk’s track record as he gets stuck in to his review of Serpent Sermon, the band’s twelfth album.

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Hair Metal 001: Dave Mustaine of Megadeth

There are so many regular features about what sick tattoos bands have got and what awesome trainers they’re wearing, but what about their haircare regime? How do they get their hair looking so cool? HOW? You were thinking it, so we asked it.

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WIN: a pair of tickets to Arcane Roots’ Kerrang! Awards show at the Camden Barfly

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That image, both physically and metaphorically, leaves Slash often seeming like he’s caught in time; he is indebted to this past with Guns N’ Roses, and although it would be cynical to think that his period of grace with the public will only last as long as a reunion remains on the table, he himself has never maintained a musical outing long enough for it to seem like a new start. As such, there’s always been the feeling that he’s just waiting for that call from Axl….

David Keevill has some reservations about Apocalyptic Love, the new album from Slash….but perhaps the album is good enough to break through them….?

That image, both physically and metaphorically, leaves Slash often seeming like he’s caught in time; he is indebted to this past with Guns N’ Roses, and although it would be cynical to think that his period of grace with the public will only last as long as a reunion remains on the table, he himself has never maintained a musical outing long enough for it to seem like a new start. As such, there’s always been the feeling that he’s just waiting for that call from Axl….

David Keevill has some reservations about Apocalyptic Love, the new album from Slash….but perhaps the album is good enough to break through them….?

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Refused reformed. “Waaaaah, they said they’d never, ever, ever get back together,” you moaned. “Waaaaah, if you’d gone to see them the first time round, your opinion might be valid,” we replied. Yeah, the Swedish punk legends were criminally under-appreciated back in the last century. They’re finally on the pedestal they deserve to be on these days so, ahead of their Main Stage appearance at Download Festival 2012, let’s have a look at how good their New York City return was.

Click here to find out the six things we learned when we saw Refused play in NYC for the first time in over a decade…

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Future Hits 120: Wretched

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Wretched
From: Charlotte, North Carolina USA
Lazy equation: (old Suicide Silence + new Job For A Cowboy) x the sound of small animals being stomped on
URL: Facebook // Twitter // YouTube

Thrash Hits verdict: Wretched are not a new band. They’ve been around for years in fact. We’re not going to pretend we’re so-far-ahead-of-the-curve that we were fans of the band since Day 1, but what we do know is that when we stuck their new record, Son of Perditio, into our stereo the other day, we liked what we heard. We liked it a lot. And what’s the point of having a Future Hits column if we;re not going to use it to tell people about bands we’ve just heard of? We fired an email off to the band’s vocalist, Adam Cody, asking him to tell us why we shouldn’t just restrict our Future Hits columns to the young ‘uns.

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This week we’re keeping it simple. In recognition of the news from the start of this week that Spotify has launched in Australia (and New Zealand), we’ve put together a Sunday Spotify Slaylist of some of our favourite Australian bands.

Click here to listen to our Sunday Spotify Slaylist of our favourite bands from down under.

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Live: The Bamboozle Festival @ Asbury Park, NJ – 18-20 May 2012

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It’s nice having a genuine fist-pumping, bridge and tunnel New Jersey boy in our ranks. That Dan Pelic is one of our writers means that we can review things like The Bamboozle Festival with ease. Foo Fighters, Bon Jovi and… Skrillex headline the three-day event and it’s on A BEACH. Cool.

WARNING: Dan’s in a bad mood.

Click here to read the six things we noticed at the “scene-est” of all music festivals in Asbury Park, NJ….

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Top 6: Most Metal Fantasy Novels

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With every band from Burzum to Blind Guardian indulging in overt Tolkien-worship, and given that if you had a pound for every time you listened to a metal song inspired by HP Lovecraft you could afford to run a Premier League football club as a plaything, we thought we’d compile one of our totally (not) comprehensive Top 6s on the most metal fantasy novels. This one may contain goblins.

Click here to read Tom Dare’s Top 6 Most Metal Fantasy Novels.

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I’m more than willing to say I favour science over religion but it’s everywhere and it’s unavoidable. When I talk about religion I just mean there’s something bigger than me that I can’t ever stop grappling with. It’s always going to be there whether I accept it in my life or not. It’s not something I want to be fighting against because it’s everywhere and it’s done no good whatsoever in the history of humanity. I certainly believe it’s one of the most evil things that humanity has ever invented and I just feel like it’s a bigger enemy than anyone will ever be able to defeat.

Keith Buckley from Every Time I Die talks to Thrash Hits about religion. Check out the fill interview for more about Ex-Lives, Keith’s experiences with violent crime, and what’s going on with ETID in 2012.

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Yeah, the video to ‘This Is The Six’ has been on the internet for over a week already but it’s just sinking in that While She Sleeps have got a big fat hit on their hands. Obviously we pegged this when we highlighted their freely downloadable EP, but the title track to their first album proper is super. It sounds better and better each time you listen to it.

Check out all the Ohs and Woahs. Seriously. They’re like the heavy metal Kaiser Chiefs. They’re both from Yorkshire. Maybe it’s something in the tea…

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Six reasons why Black Sabbath at Download 2012 will be AMAZING

Here are our observations from Black Sabbath’s Birmingham warm-up show. SPOILERS: IT WAS AWESOME.

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This giant @slayerband Reign In Blood is very cool (Taken with Instagram at Alexandra Park)

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Totally reasonable Slayer merch (Taken with Instagram at Alexandra Park)

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Wet Nuns @ Liverpool Sound City – 18 May 2012 (c/o Matt Thomas)

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