Finding the line between thrash and death metal can sometimes feel like trying to determine the world’s shortest tall person. There’s not a lot of difference between the heaviest of thrash and death metal sometimes, and honestly, who cares? Genre definitions can be extremely limiting and, honestly, if a band is a thrash-influenced death metal band or…
Goatwhore is a band that cares as much about what the mainstream thinks as can be expected from a band that named itself Goatwhore. For the past 25 years, vocalist L. Ben Falgoust II and guitarist/vocalist Sammy Duet, along with a variety of skilled drummers and bass players, have been making their own unique brand…
Quite honestly, this might be one of the more pointless reviews I’ve ever written. If you know Destruction at all, then you should more or less know what to expect from the band’s fifteenth longplayer in their 40-year career. The German thrash pioneers aren’t out to reinvent the wheel on Diabolical, nor would I particularly…
You would imagine a thrash band with the name of Texas Toast Chainsaw Massacre to have a robust sense of humor and you would be correct. The group, which has been a fixture in the Chicagoland metal scene for more than a decade now, is known for its less-than-serious lyrics and its very serious thrash…
Nightmares stick with you. You wake up with sweat dripping down your back and a noise halfway between a pained wail and a terrified scream lodged in your throat. The bathroom is calling you now that you’re awake but that hallway is awfully dark and, although you’ve walked it a million times, those oh-so-familiar features…
Anger gets a bad rap these days. The amount of people that I’ve seen complaining about people’s anger at the status quo as something bad over the last few years truly baffles me. Corporate greed keeps the majority of this planet locked into a perpetual cycle of economic servitude, politicians offer the illusion of choice…