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Interview Gary Holt (Exodus): A Creative, Awesome Explosion
With ‘Goliath’, thrash metal legends Exodus have just released what might be their most diverse album to date. According to guitarist Gary Holt, it also is their most collaborative one. He tells us about how the recording process, the guest musicians, and the return of vocalist Rob Dukes have influenced…
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Album of the Week 12-2026: Tomorrow’s Outlook – Black Waves
The previous Tomorrow’s Outlook album ‘A Voice Unheard‘ is nearly eight years old at this point, so for a while, the question was whether the Norwegian band was ever going to deliver on the substantial promise shown on that album. Fortunately, ‘Black Waves’ takes everything that was good about ‘A…
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Tools for Discovery: Kat Albums Ranked
One of the most idiosyncratic metal bands of their era, Kat has a fairly unique sound that despite their wide-reaching influence – especially in their native country of Poland – has never quite been imitated. Conventional wisdom will state that Kat plays a blend of heavy metal and thrash metal,…
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Interview Mars Triumph (Triumpher): “There Is a Triumpher Universe Behind Our Music”
With three excellent albums under their belts in less than three years, Triumpher is not just one of the most promising, but also one of the most prolific bands of the European metal scene. Singer and main songwriter Mars Triumph shares his insights into their new album ‘Piercing the Heart…
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Interview Dave Mustaine (Megadeth): “We’re Not Going to Stop Until We Do Things Right”
With their self-titled seventeenth album, the album recording days of American thrash metal titans Megadeth have come to an end. Singer, guitarist and band leader Dave Mustaine sheds his light on the circumstances surrounding their farewell album and what we can still expect from Megadeth in the next few years.…
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Interview Sortilège: “We Add Ideas to What We Built Together”
Ever since moving on without the rest of the classic Sortilège line-up, singer Christian ‘Zouille’ Augustin has been releasing quality heavy metal albums, the latest of which being last year’s excellent ‘Le Poids de l’Âme’. Augustin and guitarist, fellow songwriter and producer Olivier Spitzer shine a light on the developments…
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Album of the Week 11-2026: Exodus – Goliath
Out of all bands that reunited around the Thrash of the Titans charity concert, Exodus is arguably the one that got the most enduring career and the most consistent set of releases out of it. However, Exodus’ twenty-first century sound is so clearly defined that they were at risk of…
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Album of the Week 10-2026: Assignment – With the End Comes Silence
Metal is at its best when it doesn’t quite neatly fit a certain subgenre. It makes it more difficult to market, sure, but it also accounts for the most satisfying listening experiences, because bands that don’t care about genre limitations tend to make more interesting songwriting choices. This is certainly…
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Album of the Week 09-2026: Triumpher – Piercing the Heart of the World
With a lot of the focus of the music industry shifting away from actually making albums, a band releasing high-quality albums at the pace Greece’s Triumpher does is quite the impressive feat. Their third album ‘Piercing the Heart of the World’ releases two days before Triumpher’s debut album ‘Storming the…
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