Blog: Thrash Hits

London has lacked metal this January the way it's lacked sunshine. The endlessly grey and pigshit-miserable drizzle was matched by a gig calendar bereft any head-banging, horn-throwing metal action. Which is why the Islington Academy tonight is packed tighter than a nun's naughty bits for the first true heavy hitters the capital's seen in 2009. The foul weather alone wasn't about to stop a legion of grizzly metalheads from packing out this North London concrete shoebox. So it's with pumping fists that London greets the Swedish powerhouse, The Haunted . When it really comes down to it, people's [...]