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TUESDAY TIME MACHINE: MOTORHEAD – 1916 (1991)

Here’s the thing. Everyone remembers the 90s, so stop asking like it’s some deep one hand clapping rhetorical question, ok? Unfortunately, most people don’t remember how many fantastic metal records hit the shelves in the early 90s. This is of … Read the rest of this entry

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LISTEN TO DIS DAT INFILTRATOR DEMO AND ALSO BUY IT FOR VERY FEW BUCKS

Hark, ye cheap skates! Yet another sweet deal on bandcamp where you can name your own price by personal decree and valid form of payment. Here we have a rip-roaring piece of Venom-inspired speed metal from Infiltrator, two songs that achieve … Read the rest of this entry

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Ride With Death In The West Tour Is The Best You’ll Ever Test, Brush With Crest

I’m attending this one. Mostly because I enjoy the company of wolves that speed and I need a haven for my witches (though turthfully they ”aint shit”). Amidst of the revivalist hodegpodge of the last 5 years or so, these have two … Read the rest of this entry

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Skull Fist Still Awesome. Touring Japan. US Dates Soon To Come.

I wish I lived in Japan. Also, boobs. That is all. ShareTweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

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Angelus Apatrida Get Beat Up By A Girl

Arcade machines and dingy diners are the name of the game for Angelus Apatrida‘s new music video. The guys end up getting their butts handed to them by some chick in cyberspace but, as we all know, things on the … Read the rest of this entry

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The Comeback: An Ancient Heavy Metal Rite

Here at Shreddernet we don’t generally review things we don’t like. Nor do we post about bands we don’t like. But comebacks are a special case. Even the best bands can make a killing, fall on their faces or both … Read the rest of this entry

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Best Cover of Holy Wars EVARR.

Finally a piece of Megadeth related news that doesn’t leave me with daggers sticking out of my back. Strangely MegaDave is not involved. Anyway, for my cash, well done cover albums are hard to beat. Some of those older Priest … Read the rest of this entry

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3 Inches Of Blood: Long Live Heavy Metal

The longstanding traditional heavy metal horde known as 3 Inches Of Blood is riding high these days. Not only has traditional heavy metal taken off, but they can honestly say they’ve been flying the flag as long as anyone else. … Read the rest of this entry

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Bored With Rethrash? Listen To New Angelus Apatrida

Though you might expect a band called Angelus Apatrida to play some sort of symphonic craziness, these Spaniards play some of the most technical, virtuosic contemporary thrash metal out there. It sounds a bit like if you mixed the vox … Read the rest of this entry

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Huntress: Spell Eater

California’s Huntress, one of the featured acts on our guide to the New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal, have signed with Napalm Records. Thankfully, unlike that certain other female fronted traditional heavy metal band, they haven’t big leagued the recording … Read the rest of this entry

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Dave Mustaine Crazy Report For The 13th of March 2012

Dave Mustaine, a heavy metal madman hell bent on destroying any public good-will that remains in Megadeth‘s fanbase, is going to engage in a full fledged mashup of crazy with Alex Jones, a pundit of conspiracy theories. That’s right. Two … Read the rest of this entry

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Strange Bedfellows: New Tracks From Aura Noir And Dragonforce

Aura Noir and Dragonforce, two bands that couldn’t possibly illustrate the divergence between dingy basement thrash and unicorn speed metal more ridiculously, are both offering new tracks this week. The former for streaming, the latter for FREE download! Let the … Read the rest of this entry

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There Is No Middle Ground; Dave Mustaine Is Either Senile Or Illuminati

Meeting Dave Mustaine, ever so briefly as it was, couldn’t have been a cooler experience. He signed a copy of his book, gave me a jab for getting my buddy Peter a second signed copy (In light of recent events, … Read the rest of this entry

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Overkill’s Electric Age: Not An Amish Paradise

The Stone Age was pretty rough. The Iron Age was gnarley in name only, most being just dudes banging rocks with metal tools. The Dark Ages were pretty metal, Visigoths decapitating Roman civilians and such, but enter now, if ye … Read the rest of this entry

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Tuesday Time Machine: Exciter – Heavy Metal Maniac (1983)

For some they’ll always simply be Motorhead‘s less skilled, much-heavier Canadian brothers but Ottowa’s Exciter were bold enough to take their name from a Judas Priest song at a time when doing so wasn’t yet cliche and rip North America … Read the rest of this entry

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Pharaoh is Cool.

Prog/power is not generally my favorite genre. I simply have too much thrash in my blood to stomach much of it. However, after how much I enjoyed the latest Voyager record, I’ve been all zen-like towards any band that crafts … Read the rest of this entry

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NOT DEAD YET: Finally A Comprehensive Doc About Jason Becker

Last week on Throwback Thursdays we took a trip down memory lane with Marty Friedman and Jason Becker’s blazing genius on Cacophony‘s 1987 record Speed Metal Symphony. I also took it as a chance to shed light on Jason literally … Read the rest of this entry

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