Bloodstock Open Air 2012: Interviews, Photos, Setlists – it’s all here
Is there anything better than a Thrash Hits Festival Splash Page? Yeah, loads of things but you won’t find the best online festival coverage on any of them. You’ll find that right here. All our work...
View ArticleThe Thrash Hits Podcast 012: Possibly the worst interview we’ve ever done...
We’ve interviewed British thrash heavyweights Evile loads over the last few years. We chatted to them in a seedy London whiskey bar just before Infected Nations came out. We’ve talked nonsense with...
View ArticleEarache Records is 25: 2006-2011 (Part 5 of 5)
Right, we’ve arrived at the final day of our retrospective of 25 years of Earache Records, and today we’re catching up with some of the young guns passing through the label in recent years (as well as...
View ArticlePhotos: Kreator + Evile @ Manchester Ritz – 27 April 2013
Y’know how people are always failing to get the pun in the name ‘Thrash Hits’? It happens all the time. You’d think after five long years of doing this, people would’ve caught on to the fact that it’s...
View ArticleAlbum: Evile – Skull
Evile Skull Earache Records 27 May 2013 by Rob McAuslan So, “nu-thrash” is dead then? It seems so and not before time really – as a notorious grump and long-time thrasher myself, the majority of the...
View ArticleVote for the best British album of the year in the COROT-3b Prize
Yes, we know the Mercury Prize is just a marketing vehicle for the NME and the Guardian and we’ve genuinely given up complaining about rock and metal not being included in there – even as a token...
View ArticleSunday Slaylist: The COROT-3b Prize (vote now!)
Yes, yes, yes, the Mercury Prize doesn’t have any metal in it. Yes, yes, yes, it doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things. Yes, yes, yes, that hasn’t stopped us resurrecting the COROT-3b...
View ArticleThe Thrash Hits Cloudcast 009: The 2013 COROT-3b Prize Shortlist
On this week’s Cloudcast we’re playing tracks from all the bands we’ve shortlisted for the 2013 COROT-3b Music Prize. What is the living heck is the COROT-3b Music Prize? Well, go here and find out....
View ArticleSunday Slaylist: The COROT-3b Prize (last chance to vote!)
HEY YOU: the Mercury Prize is announcing it’s 2013 winner on Wednesday 30 October 2013. That mean we’re announcing the winner of our COROT-3b Prize too. Don’t know what the COROT-3b Prize is? Well, go...
View ArticleThe Thrash Hits Podcast 033: And the winner of the 2013 COROT-3b Prize is…
It’s might’ve been lying dormant for several years, but this year we brought the COROT-3b Prize back. Yes, we know that running an “alternative” to the Mercury Prize isn’t original. Yadda yadda yadda....
View ArticleEvile and playing a free charity gig next week. Go along and donate and...
Thoe UK leading thrash revivalists, Evile, are playing a charity show in London down at the Old Blue Last on Tuesday next week. It’s free entry, but since it’s a charity show, they’ll be taking...
View ArticleThe Thrash Hits Podcast 005: The Randy Blythe Situation
Raz is once again absent (his jetsetter lifestyle means he’s off in Berlin to catch Pearl Jam), so this week Hugh is once again joined by Tom Dare, and this week by another Tom from the Thrash Hits...
View ArticleBloodstock Open Air 2012: Evile @ Ronnie James Dio Stage – 12 August 2012
After being bumped up to the main stage at Bloodstock Open Air 2012 after Glen Benton and the boys in Deicide pulled out, the pressure was on for Evile to deliver the goods. Which – of course – they...
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