Thrash Metal was a mostly American school of Metal that fused the violence and velocity of Punk and Hardcore with the epic heaviness of British Metal. Out of that first wave of early eighties Thrash, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax were considered The Big Four. Metallica of course went on to become the Heavy Rock behemoth we know today. In their wake, bands like Exodus, Flotsam and Jetsam, Testament almost made it out of the underground. Overseas, bands like Kreator in Germany or Sepultura in Brazil would also carve a nice career out of frantic riffs, implacable drums.
Friday, August 28, 2020
Friday, August 21, 2020
Friday's Playlist: Great Live Performances (pt. 2)
Over seven months ago we shared the first instalment in our Great Live Performances playlist series (it can be found HERE). Today we are back with an epic, gigantic, overblown, mammoth seven-hour monster playlist. There is no real theme to it, but we've kept it mostly to the Rock idiom. Sure, some is Blues-Rock, some is Pop-Rock, some is Prog-Rock and some is Hard-Rock... But it all rocks.
Friday, August 14, 2020
Friday's Playlist - Awesome Guitar Solos (pt. 3)
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Jimi Hendrix' Gibson Flying V - Play It Loud @ the Met |
This Friday's Playlist is a new instalment in our ongoing "Awesome Guitar Solos" series. You can find part one HERE and part two HERE.
Monday, August 10, 2020
Friday's
Monday's Playlist - Mixing Desk Hero: Martin Birch
With the sad news that legendary producer Martin Birch passed away at the age of 71, we scrambled our usual schedule and decided to publish this playlist that pays tribute to the man's immense contribution to rock music, as an engineer and as a producer.
Friday, August 7, 2020
Friday's Playlist: Songs About Real People
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