February 2012
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In case you missed the news on Friday:
Black Sabbath cancel ALL European dates EXCEPT Download Festival 2012.
You’ve read the title? Right. That’s the gist of the story. Black Sabbath will no longer be performing any of their previously announced European tour dates, with the exception of Download Festival 2012. In place of the majority of the cancelled shows, an ‘Ozzy & Friends’ gathering (including Geezer Butler, Zakk Wylde,...
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Live: Mastodon, The Dillinger Escape Plan + Red...
Yeah, it’s that tour. The one the US had last year and we were all really jealous about. Oh well. We got it too. Mastodon and The Dillinger Escape Plan released the Thrash Hits Album of the Year of 2011 and 2010 respectively. Red Fang released an album last year but it went largely unnoticed. Shit happens. The good news is that we went to Brixton (and Manchester) to see this tour. Is that good...
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Live: Basick Records Fest @ London Camden Barfly –...
British indy label Basick Records put on their own night in London, featuring instrumental tech metal(/cheese) one-piece Chimp Spanner (yes, he did bring a backing band), excellent French atmospheric tech metallers Uneven Structure and French mentalist The Algorithm. We went along to bang our heads in 17/8 time signature.
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Throats want you to download their entire...
Throats were one of those bands that burned hard and burned fast. In the three of so years of the band’s lifespan, everyone kinda took them for granted. The band had shrugged off the “hipster grind” tag that their less-imaginative critics loved to throw at them, and had started to become a real force all of their own, when in and then in December 2010 they announced in December 2010 that they...
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Future Hits 113: Conan
Conan From: Liverpool, UK Lazy equation: (Sleep + Batillus) x as many MATAMP amps as you can get your hands on. URL: Website // Facebook
Thrash Hits Verdict: We first became aware of Conan last year, when one of our photographers, Matt Thomas, started singing their praises at us. Well, when say “singing”, we really mean “sent us an email”. Given that like Conan, he’s based up in Liverpool,...
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Vice have just started showing a serialisation of their excellent documentary, Heavy Metal In Baghdad. If you’ve not seen it before, now’s your chance.
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WHINE: Motörhead wine outlawed in Iceland
That excellent play on words aside, THIS IS ÖUTRAGEÖUS. Motörhead’s quite delicious Australian Shiraz will not be sold in Iceland because the band is synonymous with being a bit naughty. The fear is that the sale of Lemmy & co’s fruity number could result in leading our North Atlantic friends into a life of angry, speed-fuelled debauchery. Cripes.
Click here to read more about their heinous...
gregpuciato:
Mastodon. Impossibly heavy right now. Whole floor feels like its gonna cave in.
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Apparently Shinedown just confirmed onstage at the...
Erm…yeah, that’s about it. It’s also been confirmed by Andy Copping, the festival’s promoter, via his Twitter account, so apparently it’s legit.
We’ve got nothing else to add about Shinedown. That’s how exciting this news is. Please continue to carry on with whatever it is you were doing before we wasted 30 seconds of your time with this.
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The video for ‘Parasitic Twins’, the new single from The Dillinger Escape Plan, is suitably messed-up. It totally fits the mood of Option Paralysis’ spaced-out closing track though.
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Spotify Slaylist: IT SNOWED!!!111!! →
Yeah, we kept it a bit obvious this weekend.
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Let’s read between the lines of the Black...
If there’s one thing Hugh Platt loves doing, it’s shit-stirring. This whole Black Sabbath/Bill Ward situation has seen him dig out a very large spoon.
By now you’ve no doubt have heard that Bill Ward is – at the time of writing at least – no longer going to be taking part in either the recording of the new Black Sabbath album or the corresponding world tour. This situation all kicked off on...
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Sonisphere headliners leaked – Faith No More and...
Those of you following us on Twitter will have heard us mention earlier this week that we’d “just heard a festival headliner “rumour” so mental it has blown my mind. GOBSMACKED“…well, it seems The Daily Star have gone and blown all our secrets out of the water – today they confirmed that this year’s Sonisphere Festival headliners in the UK will be Faith no More and Queen….fronted by Adam...
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