Skeletonwitch and Toxic Holocaust are two modern bands that are helping to prove that thrash metal isn't dead. With Beyond the Permafrost released last year and An Overdose of Death... released last week, the thrash revival movement is going strong.
Skeletonwitch is a thrash band that makes sure to coat its sound in a thin layer of permafrost. With black metal-esque vocals and riffs that sound like they came from the frozen north, their style of blackened thrash is relentless yet beautiful. You have to listen for yourself:
- Upon Black Wings
- Baptized in Flame
- Soul Thrashing Black Sorcery
Toxic Holocaust is a one man thrash project that really does give meaning to the term 'thrash revival'. Joel Grind brings an '80s thrash flavor to everything about his 'band'. The sound, the lyrics and even the album cover art. His brand of music, though, is by no means just a cookie cutter effort. It's more like he's from somewhere around the 80s and was cryogenically frozen to help save thrash in the future.
- Nuke the Cross
- War is Hell
- City of a Million Graves
2 comments:
two quality acts there...
i'm typically not a fan of "revival" style acts, but these guys do it with total finesse.
i'll be shopping for a TH album very soon!
Really tried to give it a good effort - but I'm just not able to get more than a minute into these tracks. Awesome though - the concept and especially for the time period. Just not my cup.
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