Thrash-Metal News

Zero To Hero Films has uploaded a three-part video report on "Bonded By Baloff: A Decade Of Remembrance" , a special concert which marked the 10-year anniversary of former EXODUS singer Paul Baloff 's passing.

Long-running French extreme metal band NO RETURN has inked a deal with Great Dane Records .

An eight-and-a-half-minute audio preview of "Helvetios" , the new album from Swiss folk metallers ELUVEITIE , is available below.

German thrash metal veterans KREATOR will release their new album, "Phantom Antichrist" on June 1 in Europe and June 5 in North America via Nuclear Blast Records .

The five members of the veteran San Francisco Bay Area metal band DEATH ANGEL are continuing to answer fan-submitted questions via a series of clips posted on their official YouTube channel.

Brazilian/American thrashers SEPULTURA will join forces with DEATH ANGEL , KRISIUN and HAVOK for a North American tour in April/May. "We are so excited to go back to North America," commented SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser .

Philip Freeman will discuss the legendary history of DESTRUCTION , SODOM and KREATOR during a lecture called "German Thrash - Extreme Metal For A Divided Nation" this Sunday, February 12 at 7 p.m. at Centrum in Berlin, Germany .

The Oakland Metro Opera House was ground zero for NorCal Thrash metal act Exodus last weekend where they celebrated the life of the band's original vocalist Paul Baloff with a tribute show dubbed "Bonded By Baloff." Punctuating the event was an appearance on stage by former bandmate Kirk Hammett , who now plays with a little band called Metallica .

One of the great should-have-beens of the early '80s metal scene, Toronto's Anvil never saw the level of renown enjoyed by contemporaneous acts such as Slayer, Metallica, Exodus and others.

Paul will make his comeback debut at Hammerfest in March, where THE SANITY DAYS will now play most of the "Power From Hell" album along with Steve Grimmett on vocals playing the entire "In Search of Sanity" LP.

Clear your calendars, Metallica fans. And... indie rock fans! In an announcement on their site this afternoon, the metal titans confirmed that they'll be hosting a festival, dubbed Orion, on June 22 and 23 at Bader Field in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

"Havoc" , the new video from Swiss folk metallers ELUVEITIE , can be seen below.

SEPULTURA will join forces with DEATH ANGEL , KRISIUN and HAVOK for a North American tour in April/May. Exact cities and dates will be announced soon.

Metal Mark of SkullsNBones.com conducted an interview with guitarist Ted Aguilar of San Francisco Bay Area metallers DEATH ANGEL before the band's February 2 concert in Atlanta, Georgia.

Guitarist Hammett, Rick Hunolt and original bassist Jeff Andrews joined Exodus' current line-up to mark 10 years since Paul Baloff died of a stroke.

As a young metalhead, the mid-eighties were a really exciting time for me. Speed/thrash metal was an exciting sound, bringing in the anger and velocity of punk, taking the music into brave new territory.

METALLICA /ex- EXODUS guitarist Kirk Hammett , former EXODUS axeman Rick Hunolt and original EXODUS bassist Jeff Andrews all joined the current lineup of EXODUS on stage last night at a special concert to mark the 10-year anniversary of former EXODUS singer Paul Baloff 's passing.

Boston power/thrash veterans MELIAH RAGE are working on a video for the song "Where Nothing Ever Grows" . The clip is being produced by Brad Piche and Branden Maxham and should be released by mid-March. "Where Nothing Ever Grows" comes off MELIAH RAGE 's seventh full-length studio album , "Dead To The World" , which came out last July via Italy's ... (more)

Oscar Clemotte donates his time and talent to help raise money for a Vancouver Island University music program.

After he left Metallica in 1983, guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine formed the thrash metal quartet Megadeth.