Wreck-Defy “Powers That Be” Digital Release – Pre-Order! – The crushing new album from Canada’s thrash metal machine Wreck-Defy, featuring guitarist Matt Hanchuck alongside former Annihilator singer Aaron Randall, former Testament bass player Greg Christian and former Malevolent Creation drummer Alex Marquez. Watch the video for their first single “Freedomless…
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Demolizer release “Copenhagen Burning” video today
“Copenhagen Burning” is the new video and opening track of DEMOLIZER‘s upcoming album, “Thrashmageddon”. A warning shot, if you will, to let you know what the young Danes are capable of. Demolizer, formed in 2018, plays gut-crushing, hard-hitting, and unfiltered thrash metal that will have you picking up your teeth…
Canadian Thrash Legends ANONYMUS Live Stream Concert From Quebec City’s L’Anti Bar
New Music Video “Bicho Loco” First Spanish Album “La Bestia” Out Now! via Bam&co Heavy Offer Deluxe Combo (Vinyl, CD, Sticker, Patch) w/ Purchase of Virtual Concert Ticket Canadian thrash legends Anonymus announce they will be performing their first-ever live stream concert hosted by District 7 Production on September 5th…
LÄÄZ ROCKIT vinyl re-issues out now!
Pure Bay-Area Thrash Metal, a Classic! The production is killer, with a massive guitar sound that chugs like a goddamned locomotive. Laaz Rockit were a band that knew right where to put a riff, and when to change it up, and when they could ride a main riff right…
Vio-Lence launches video for digital single, “California Uber Alles” – a cover version of the Dead Kennedys classic!
Vio-Lence has released a new digital single: “California Uber Alles” – a cover version of the Dead Kennedys classic! The band also recently filmed a video (directed by Scott Kirkeeng) for the track! Vio-Lence comments: “Being musicians in the Bay Area Thrash Metal scene, Vio-Lence believes it is important to…
WinterheartH – Metal Rules premiere of new album RIVERBED EMPIRE and a short chat about the album
WinterheartH are a blackened metal band from Newfoundland. The band are releasing their new album RIVERBED EMPIRE on August 21, 2020 and are doing a global premiere of the full album right here on Metal Rules! The album can be heard below this interview where we talk to vocalist Andrew…
IRON ANGEL – “Bridges Are Burning” Lyric Video Premiere
Week by week, we get closer to the release date of “Emerald Eyes”, the new album from German speed/thrash legends IRON ANGEL. Now is time to know the third single from the record, “Bridges Are Burning”, which is being released in a lyrics video. “”Bridges Are Burning” is a special…
ANTHRAX Post Episode Six: “Got The Time”
Thirty years ago tomorrow, August 21 1990, Persistence of Time. Anthrax’s fifth studio album was released. To commemorate that release, the band’s special deluxe edition of the fully remastered album, a slew of bonus tracks, and revised cover art will hit stores tomorrow as a four-disc vinyl collection, and a CD/DVD package. To…
NONEXIST – New song “Together We Shall Burn” Available
It’s time to listen to the second single taken off NONEXIST upcoming album, “Like The Fearless Hunter”. The spotlight now falls unto “Together We Shall Burn”. Here’s what mastermind Johan Reinhodz has to say about it: “”Together We Shall Burn” is one of the few midtempo songs on this album. It’s pretty…
ANTHRAX: Public Enemy/Flavor Flav, Alice In Chains/Jerry Cantrell
One week from today, the 30th anniversary deluxe edition of Anthrax’s fifth studio album, Persistence of Time will be released. Over the two-and-a-half years that the band promoted and toured in support of that album, lots of memories were made. In this, Episode Five of the Persistence of Time Video Series, bassist…
Metal Rules Premiere: Montreal Thrash HOMICIDE Shred Classic Riffs And Solos With Next Single “Point Blank Rage”
Montreal’s Homicide has a new album “Left For Dead” that is ready to take the world by storm on August 21st, 2020; the first offering since the band went dark 25 years ago. What has been coined as “apocalyptic thrash” is coming back for fans and Homicide states it is like the first album, but on…
UK Thrash Metal Pioneers ONSLAUGHT Release Generation Antichrist Today
The long-awaited new release from UK thrash metal innovators ONSLAUGHT, Generation Antichrist, is available today via AFM Records. “I’m so psyched that we’re finally getting this new ONSLAUGHT album out on the streets after seven years, but where’s the freakin’ time gone?” says guitarist and founding member Nige Rockett. Generation…
UK Thrash Pioneers ONSLAUGHT Shred Through “Religiousuicide” in New Guitar Playthrough
Watch the Playthrough Now via Guitar World “Generation Antichrist” Out August 7 via AFM Records UK thrash metal innovators have presented a new guitar playthrough video for “Religiousuicide,” the first single from the band’s upcoming Generation Antichrist album, set for the release on August 7 via AFM Records. Watch the…
UK Thrash Metal Innovators ONSLAUGHT Reveal Menacing New Video for “Bow Down to the Clowns”
U.K.-based thrash metal trailblazers ONSLAUGHT have revealed the second single from the upcoming Generation Antichrist album, “Bow Down to the Clowns,” along with its menacing travelling circus-inspired video. Lyrically inspired by society’s tendency to allow itself to be controlled by others, the video for “Bow Down to the Clowns” offers…
DEMOLIZER Release New Video For “Cancer In The Brain”
“Cancer In The Brain” is the first appetizer taken off the new album by Danish thrashers DEMOLIZER, entitled “Thrashmageddon”, and is now ready to thrash your Summer. “This song is based on a quote a friend of mine once said when we were mixing some music”, vocalist and guitar-player…