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US thrashers, Toxik, have released their new single, "Creating The Abyss". A lyric video for the song can be found below.
Guitarist Josh Christian about the song: "This song takes on the concept of wage slavery by using a scene from the Kinross' Paracatu gold mine in Brazil, one of the largest in the world.
Metallica’s 1986 thrash metal classic “Master Of Puppets” has entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time ever after gaining new life being featured Netflix’s hit series Stranger Things.
The song has earned has astounding 17.5 million streams since the final episodes of Stranger Things season 4 aired on July 1.
2022 is a special year for British thrash metal force Onslaught, one of the most influential and respected bands of their genre: The group led by Nige Rockett is celebrating its 40th anniversary and is planning to do so in style.
This May, Onslaught were inducted into the Metal Hall Of Fame, being characterized as "one of the most ferocious, explosive and controversial Metal bands ever to come out of the UK.“
Bay area thrash metal giants Testament unleashed their thirteenth studio album, Titans Of Creation, via Nuclear Blast in 2020.
Today, Testament has announced they will release a Titans Of Creation Video Album on September 9 via Nuclear Blast Records. The limited-edition collectible features performance videos of all the tracks on the record.
Rockmark Records will issue a 30th anniversary collector's boxset edition of Venom's eighth studio album, The Waste Lands, on October 29.
Strictly limited to 166 numbered copies, the boxset includes:
- Galaxy Effect Vinyl (limited to 166 copies within the boxset edition only) with Obi Strip! + Gatefold Cover with lyrics...
Even after four steamy, liver-destroying, gut-stretching decades in the name of heavy metal, there's no stopping the Tankard beer crew.
Just in time for the celebrations surrounding their fortieth birthday, Tankard will release their new full-length, Pavlov's Dawgs, on September 30.
Metallica have released more footage from their performance at Pinkpop 2022 in Landgraaf, Netherlands on June 17. Professionally-filmed video for "Metal Militia" joins the previously posted "Harvester Of Sorrow"
Metallica performs next on Friday, July 1, at Rock Werchter at Festivalpark in Werchter, Belgium.
Thrash metal pioneers and metal icons, Megadeth, performed at the 2022 edition of France's Hellfest on June 24. The band have released the recap video below, stating: "Just when you think it's safe, I attack! Thank you, Hellfest. We'll be back!"
Megadeth will cap a summer of global touring with the release of their 16th studio album, The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead! via UMe on September 2.
Suicidal Tendencies performed at the 2022 edition of Hellfest in Clisson, France on June 18th. You can watch professionally-filmed footage of the band's full set below.
Setlist:
"You Can't Bring Me Down"
"I Shot The Devil"
"Send Me Your Money"
Currently on the European summer festival circuit with Flotsam And Jetsam, frontman Eric "A.K." Knutson is featured in a new interview conducted at the Graspop Metal Meeting in Dessel, Belgium.
In the clip below he offers an update on the band's new album, which is expected to be released next year.