Anthrax - Anthems (2013) - They only covered mainstream bands - 73% (25/05/14)

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Less than two years after their diversified party album “Worship Music”, the sympathetic American East Coast thrash metal institution Anthrax comes along with a new fun ride in form of the EP “Anthems”. This release includes six cover songs plus a song...

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Metallica - ...And Justice For All (1988) - The visionary prototype is better than the genre - 96% (24/05/14)

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„…And Justice For All“ is my favourite Metallica record along with the thrash metal milestone „Ride The Lightning“ and the controversial, desperate and pitiless “St. Anger”. The song writing, innovation and intensity are different from the other two releases...

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Metallica - St. Anger (2003) - It's Metallica's world, suckers! - 96% (21/05/14)

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Metallica’s “St. Anger“ has been reviewed so many times, so what’s the matter to do this all over again? My reasoning is simple. Usually, this controversial record is hated by many and adored by a few. There seems to be nothing in between and this release...

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Коррозия Металла / Corrosion Of Metal - Компьютер-Гитлер / Computer-Hitler - „Ey, racists, this album is shit!“ - 38% (16/05/14)

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What the hell is this? Pitiless speed and thrash metal band Korrozia Metalla that had hit the Russian scene hard with its punk attitude, overtly occult lyrics and secret concert shows over the eighties has transformed into a weird project with highly...

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Ação Libertária - Cavalo de Tróia (2013) - Here comes the honest punk attitude - 70% (30/06/13)

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Acao Libertaria is a thrash metal band from Natal, Brazil that mixes energizing punk and even hardcore influences into its raw sound. The tracks on the band’s first full length release “Cavalo De Troia” are short, sharp and take no prisoners. All songs...

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ガーゴイル / Gargoyle - 禊 ~Misogi~ (1989) - Only Japanese could write this kind of crazy stuff - 93% (11/09/12)

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Gargoyle is another crazy metal band from Nippon that is quite tough to categorize as they vary from thrash and speed metal over more traditional heavy metal parts to quite progressive passages on a high quality level comparable to other big names of...

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Sex Machineguns - Sex Machinegun (1998) - Making love to and with weapons indeed - 93% (10/09/12)

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Sex Machinegun are another crazy, open-minded and actually once again hard to describe metal band that hails from Nippon and releases its stunning debut record in a time when the metal scene was at a low. Musically, the band mixes hard thrash and speed...

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塔罗圣徒 / Tarot Saint - 2012 (2012) - By far the best metalcore release ever witnessed - 85% (29/08/12)

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Usually, I'm not at all into modern metal music and especially into metalcore and similar stuff and that's why this record from a rather unknown Chinese band that I discovered by pure coincidence hit me as hard as a howling train. Tarot Saint find exactly...

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Kreator - Phantom Antichrist (2012) - The perfect dose for diversified ingredients - 98% (24/07/12)

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Kreator did a lot of right things with this record if we look on the well chosen and dosed ingredients. Kreator include just the right amount of excellent heavy metal riffs as in the short introduction called "Mars Mantra". The legendary German band also...

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Stormtroopers Of Death - Speak English Or Die (1985) - Switch your brains off and then some! - 65% (16/04/12)

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Stormtroopers Of Death are a sort of super group with members from legendary bands such as Anthrax that just wanted to have some fun and created a short and entertaining record around a strange character called Sergeant D. who hates pretty much everything....

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