
I often find myself in a place of reverie, contemplating what my life would be like without heavy metal. From the time that I first heard the distorted notes of "Detroit Rock City" at the tender age of six, to the more poppy, yet still fairly aggressive riffs of Def Leppard 's Pyromania , to the ultimate epiphany of Metallica 's Ride the Lightening or Slayer 's Haunting the Chapel , the music has always been that something special that I've been able to rely on. My metal never let me [...]

The last column took on a bifurcated Death Metal/Stoner Metal focus, so I'm happy to return today with an update that concerns the Bay Area's favorite kind of metal: Thrash! To bring the uninitiated up to speed, let us note the fact that these Nor-Cal shores were at the epicenter of a musical movement, at a time when bands like Exodus , Testament , Death Angel , and everyone's favorite Napster-enemies were beginning still-extant careers amid an orgy of polka-beating violence. In recent years, heavy music has witnessed an explosion of so-called "retro-thrashers," all [...]
Music video for "Repulsive Salvation" by Athens, Ohio's Skeletonwitch from the album "Breathing The Fire."
Skeletonwitch sings the following genre(s): Black Metal , Thrash Metal More videos from Skeletonwitch : thumbnail: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Gu0bzTuG wq4/default.jpg