ESSENTIAL HEAVY METAL

1991 was such a confusing time for metal. The genre had branched out into funk, jazz, and just about every other style - metal had become ...

Packaged like it's from the early '80s, UK band Slander didn't really get their just rewards for their stripped back yet more ...

Featuring ex Pestilence axe-man Randy Meinhard; Sacrosanct was a short-lived technical thrash metal act that released three records in the...

This is some killer brash thrash from Poland even if it should've emerged half a decade previous. Hammer is a quintet that went on to ...

It's always nice to throw in a bit of German techno-thrash every now and then and one can't go wrong with the often bewildering st...

Bit of a strange one for its time; Lunacy come complete with like it/hate it cover art and a peculiar hardcore, comedic tone based around ...

A gloriously metallic debut opus comes from this New York quintet who play pure, steely power metal fuelled by joyous solos; a smooth voca...