Though I don't find myself listening to their first few records as often as I'd like, Fearless Undead Machines and all of the Decea...

Evilcult is another band that has continued to evolve its sound alongside the other blackened speed/thrash hopefuls across the globe and wo...

I was as shocked as any when it was revealed that Coroner was doing a tour in the US and releasing a new album. Yes, I know they'd gotte...

A Leap into the Dark is a brief holdover for whatever Enforced is headed towards next, but with six tracks, it's at least a little mor...

In many ways, War Remains just feels like a Part II of Kill Grid from 2021. The black & white cover artwork from Joe Petagno, which is...

With Kill Grid and their signing to Century Media records, Enforced moved on to a sound that was the more archetypal thrash that most would...

At the Walls was one of those first records I latched onto in the modern wave of thrash and death metal albums incorporating hardcore aesth...

People surrounding me (both in meatspace and cyberspace) absolutely lost their shit over this album, and I can't count how many times I ...

I've been with  Kreator  for nearly 40 years at this point; no, not as a member, but as a fan of this institution that has swept the thr...

By title, Excessive Outburst of Depravity might give you an impression that this is somehow going to be a leveling up of filth and aggressi...

Summon the Hordes arrives right on queue, at another 3-year interval which seems to be the efficient standard Protector is maintaining for...

Cursed and Coronated is a difficult record to write about because it is so ridiculously close to its predecessor in production, songwriting...

Like many other thrash bands of the 80s and early 90s, Protector would enter its torpor around the time the genre died down on the world ma...

If A Shedding of Skin was my favorite of the earlier Protector catalog, The Heritage was directly on its heels, and in fact some days I m...

While it still imports a lot of the ballistic thrash of previous Protector recordings, A Shedding of Skin felt like a matured album risen ...

Leviathan's Desire has another of those evocative covers where you've got this dad-bod troll or goblin hanging out at at some sort ...

Urm the Mad was the first Protector album I managed to come across out in the wild, and I recall being thrown off a little at the beginnin...

One of the things I always enjoyed about Protector was the fantastical whimsy on some of their earlier cover arts, and in the lyrics, start...

A little over a decade back, I wrote an exhaustive amount of reviews covering the German thrash scene that I came up with through the 80s an...

Bitter Scorn is little more than a bite-sized after mint to the phenomenal Never Surrender record,  Deströyer 666 riding high on another ...