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Andy Whale and Karl Willetts are old-school members of the U.K.’s Bolt Thrower. They played together for years before the band granted Whale an “honourable discharge” in 1994. In Birmingham early this year, Continue reading Memoriam: new band from Bolt Thrower, Benediction members
Doom, the O.G., classic U.K. band that has been playing crust punk since 1987, has been tearing it up live at different festivals lately, and we’ve got video of two of Continue reading Doom at Maryland Deathfest: video
Four years running, below is our annual collection of Killing Joke covers we’ve run across on YouTube. First off, Prong released a covers album called Songs From The Black Hole, and Continue reading Another fistful of Killing Joke covers
After six years, Extreme Noise Terror is coming out with a self-titled album. Longtime frontman Dean Jones said in a press release, “Our best album yet. If this doesn’t blow Continue reading Extreme Noise Terror is back
There’s a flurry of Killing Joke activity coming up. The guys will do a U.K. tour, and on top of that singer/keyboardist Jaz Coleman will embark on a speaking tour for his Continue reading Killing Joke: new music and back on the road
“Rocktronica” is the phrase the British band Pitch Shifter uses to describe itself. But its old records through the mid-1990s were in the vein of what metalheads would call industrial. In Continue reading Pitch Shifter: and now for something completely different (From the Vault)
With this post we’ve got a two-pronged approach: gathering of news released about Killing Joke, and our third annual list of Killing Joke covers we found on YouTube. News The Continue reading Killing Joke: news update and covers posted online
Voivod and Napalm Death—along with Black Crown Initiate, Iron Reagan, and Exhumed—are on tour in the States on a thing called the “Through Space and Grind Tour” and played Baltimore Continue reading Voivod and Napalm Death, through space and grind: video
Sepulchral Temple‘s self-titled EP was originally out on vinyl and came out on CD through Invictus Productions in November of 2014. The UK band plays old-school death metal with plenty Continue reading New EP from Sepulchral Temple released
It sounds like the Brits in this two-man black metal/grindcore band are going for more of a digital sound, or are embracing it more, than on a record like Vanitas Continue reading Anaal Nathrakh “Desideratum” review