Blog: Thrash Hits

Aaah, 30 Seconds To Mars . The ultimate in style over substance, right? They're a massive band with average songs but really quite cool videos and they released a new album this week - Love, Lust, Faith + Dreams. This meant that we got a few minutes on the phone with Jared Leto to ask him as many questions bland enough so that he wouldn't hang up the phone on as possible. But yes, of course we asked him about his bed . This isn't a good interview. -- [...]

Ever since Falling In Reverse released their new video for ‘Alone’ a couple of weeks ago the band’s frontman, Ronnie Radke has been the talk of the internet. Recent events involving Radke firing his entire band only set the forums on fire further. Gavin Lloyd points out six reasons why the metal world is better off with Ronnie Radke in it and why his haters should go back to washing dishes for a living. Top 6... reasons Ronnie Radke is the greatest rockstar in the world [...]

Beard of Wolves From:  Connor’s Quay, North Wa les Lazy equation:  Pulled Apart By Horses -  guitars x Future of the  Left-esque Welsh Weirdness URL:   Facebook // Bandcamp Thrash Hits verdict: Employing the Death From Above 1979 template of doing away with guitars, North Wales two-piece, Beard of Wolves produce dirty rock 'n' roll propelled by pounding drums and fuzzy bass lines. They also share a similar penchant for combining the bizarre with pop sensibilities as fellow Welsh men Future of the Left and McClusky before them. -- [...]

There are so many regular features about what sick tattoos bands have got and what awesome trainers they're wearing, but what about their haircare regime? How do they get their hair looking so cool? HOW? You were thinking it, so we asked it. What shampoo do you use, Loz Taylor of While She Sleeps? Loz: "I don't do anything with it. I wash it with what I've got and I let it dry naturally. One day when I might have some money I'll [...]

Deafheaven Sunbather Deathwish Inc 10 June 2013 by Raziq Rauf Do you ever get the feeling that you're being made fun of? That unease where some obnoxious prick knows something that you don't and you don't really know what to do because you're not sure. They're being too subtle, but you know it's not quite right – it's too unfamiliar. You don't know quite how to fight back because you know that if you say the wrong thing, they'll just laugh at you. Those obnoxious pricks are [...]

• Deathwish Inc - DEAFHEAVEN "Sunbather"

It's the 4th annual World Goth Day today, 22 May 2013 (5th in total) and, just as we do every year, we thought we'd celebrate by celebrating goths with a few re-posts and as much new goth stuff as we can think of. This is what it's all about, if you don't know... "World Goth Day is exactly what it says on the wrapper-a day where the goth scene gets to celebrate its own being, and an opportunity to make its presence known to the rest of the world. This day falls on 22nd [...]

In case you haven't noticed, WE RELAUNCHED THRASH HITS . This week on the podcast, Raz and Hugh talk through the fancy new changes that we've made to the site (we're pretty proud of it FYI), as well as giving the lowdown on our team-up with Songkick Detour (help us bring American Nightmare, SikTh, and a load of other awesome bands to London!), as well as talking about the  only  news story that's mattered over the last week - Tim Lambesis of As I Lay Dying being arrested and charged with attempting to hire a hitman to [...]

Svalbard From:  Bristol, UK Lazy equation: (Rinoa + Modern Life Is War) x the inevitability of environmental collapse. URLs:   Facebook // Twitter // Soundcloud //  Bandcamp Thrash Hits verdict:  We love a bit of progressive UK hardcore, so the thoughtful but forceful racket knocked up by Bristol's Svalbard was just the ticket for our Future Hits column. Lead guitarist/vocalist  Serena Cherry answered most of our questions, but left it to [...]

• ThrashHits - Svalbard

My Dying Bride The Manuscript Peaceville Records 13 May 2013 by Daniel Cairns Whilst peers like Paradise Lost and Anathema have gone through a litany of musical changes, experimenting with Depeche Mode style electronics and glorious anthemic rock songs, My Dying Bride have mercifully continued to wallow in their Keats-meets-Castlevania misery, writing melodic dirges for [...]

What? You really had to ask?  One Of Us Is The Killer  by The Dillinger Escape Plan came out last week. Later this week we're going to explain in great detail why it's one of the best records you will hear all year. GO AND BUY IT. GO AND BUY IT NOW.

In case you missed the news earlier this week, we're teaming up with Songkick Detour to try to bring some of the best bands in the world to London . Some of them have split up (but occasionally threaten to get back together), some of them have reformed but just not made the trip over to the UK yet, and some of them have  never  been to these shores. This week's Sunday Spotify Slaylist will hopefully remind you why you need to pledge to see these bands. We've  already  [...]

If there is one shared passion of the collected Thrash Hits writers (other than smugly mouthing-off about bands on the internet), then it's football. So when the London leg of  Title Fight's UK tour clashed with the Europa League Final this week, we were worried we wouldn't be able to find anyone able to review it...so we guess it's a good job that  Alex Andrews is a Spurs man... 6 things we learned watching Title Fight in London... [...]

A few weeks ago, I got an invite to go to David Draiman's house in Texas. He was going to provide food from the best barbecue joint in Austin. The catch? I had to listen to the new album from his new project, Device . Mmmm, barbecue. How bad could it be, right? Mmmm, barbecue. 'Mad' David Draiman. He's the singer from Disturbed. He made that weird monkey noise in rock club floor-filler, 'Stupify' . He's the guy with those [...]

• devicetheband - Device - Close My Eyes Forever feat Lzzy Hale
• devicetheband - Device - Penance

We saw the power of Songkick Detour back in February when, in conjunction with our big sister, DrownedinSound, Desaparecidos played their first UK show . It was impressive and it was powered by the crowd. They wanted to see Desaparecidos play live in London and they put their money where their mouths were. We want to do the same thing with some bands that we like. Let's see if we can get American Nightmare over to the UK. Let's see if we can show SikTh that people want to see them live. [...]

Retox YPLL Epitaph Records 27 May 2013 by Ollie Connors Fresh from a rarer-than-rocking-horse-shit set of shows with former outfit The Locust, vocalist Justin Pearson gets back on the Retox wagon, with second full-length YPLL  following on from their 2011 effort, Ugly Animals . The quartet have the same vein of frenetic energy as The Locust [...]

There are so many regular features about what sick tattoos bands have got and what awesome trainers they're wearing, but what about their haircare regime? How do they get their hair looking so cool? HOW? You were thinking it, so we asked it. What shampoo do you use, Sam Carter of Architects? "Whatever my mum's got or whatever my girlfriend's got. The majority of the time it's Aussie. It keeps it blonde - it does its job. I don't do anything: I don't wash my clothes; [...]

Friday night. Free gig.  Black Moth . Pints of booze.  Hugh Platt . Review. BOSH. 6 things we learned watching Black Moth and God Damn in London... 1)  Due to unforeseen circumstances, Black Moth's labelmates Limb weren't able to play their advertised opening support slot tonight. Bah. We really like Limb - that's why we did a Future Hits on them after all . We only catch the tail-end of Ghold's set, but bloody hell [...]

Wes Borland is a man of many faces. He's also a man of many bands. Everyone knows him for playing guitar in Limp Bizkit but he's been in half a dozen others. Half a dozen, eh? Sounds like perfect fodder for a Top 6, so we asked him to pick his favourite song from each of them. The problem is that he's played in more than six bands so this list doesn't even include Big Dumb Face. Wes Borland's favourite songs to play with his Top 6 bands [...]

After almost five years, we've finally re-designed ThrashHits.com. We think it looks a bit better than before. Hopefully it'll make your time on the site, reading about our and your favourite bands, a whole load better. Here's a run-down of all the new things that you can find on Thrash Hits... Featured article boxes - We've decided we should tell you which two articles we think you need to digest. Think of it as curated content rather than us not trusting you to make a the correct choice but... [...]

We forgot to ask Gary Wolstenholme if there were as many annoying pricks wearing backpacks at Hatebreed's Manchester Academy 2 show as there were when the band played London , mainly because Jamey Jasta's face just brings out the urge to M0SH in us. Yep. -- Hatebreed @ Manchester Academy 2 - 30 April 2013 c/o Gary Wolstenholme [...]