Tag Archives: Anthrax

Anthrax, Gig Review. Birmingham Arena, Birmingham.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

In another place, perhaps in one which the overhead skies are permanently blue, the sun shines down with the kindness of a first date in summer and with the sizzling aroma of food being cooked for the hungry but dedicated masses, then having three support acts, or more, is arguably one in which the audiences can really get their teeth into. Aside from the logistics of such an action when held indoors and with limited time available, the feeling is one in which a support act to the main event gets some recognition but doesn’t have enough time in which to truly either leave their mark on the memory of the assembled.

Anthrax, Gig Review. Birmingham Arena, Birmingham. full post

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Anthrax, Kings Among Scotland. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There will be those that remember with absolute fondness and the Heavy Metal spring in their step, the times when one of the American big four of the Thrash genre came to Britain and almost stole the show of the band they were supporting, pulling the rug out from underneath their feet and catching them in their fall, only to pull back at the last moment and defer with grace in their hearts to the main reason why the fans had made their way to the various arenas and venues in the first place.

Anthrax, Kings Among Scotland. Album Review. full post

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Anthrax, All The Kings. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Royalty is an outdated position of responsibility in the eyes of many, yet somehow we either cling to it out of deference to the past, to scared to go it alone and forge our own way of thinking, or we trust Government to become the new rulers and apply regulations and laws that we disagree with, one we can put their heads on a block, the other we just elect out; there is no middle ground.

Anthrax, All The Kings. Album Review. full post

(446 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Anthrax, Gig Review. o2 Academy, Birmingham.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The clock ticks down with strength and purpose as the black clouds of unimpressive rain and chocked down November days hit the Birmingham Streets. The Bristol Road, once a serene setting for W.H. Auden as he meandered back home in which to place a timely piece of prosaic poetry, is now lined with the signs of two of the “Big Four” of American Thrash Metal adorned on T-shirts and the rightful acknowledgement that Birmingham is the true home of Metal.

Anthrax, Gig Review. o2 Academy, Birmingham. full post

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Steeleye Span, Wintersmith. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

There is no other way to write it down, a statement, that unless something the internet decides that enough is enough and crawls off to be superseded by pure thought, should stand for all time, the combination between literature and Folk/Rock music in Steeleye Span’s Wintersmith is one of the albums of the year.

Steeleye Span, Wintersmith. Album Review. full post

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Metallica, Kill ‘Em All. 30th Anniversary Retrospective.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

For many it was the album that was the beginning of Thrash Metal. The next logical step from Heavy Metal that found its way from America as in an exuberant recognition that British Heavy Metal had stolen a march on the genre. Metallica’s Kill ‘Em All certainly stands out as being part of the genre but it’s overall feel 30 years after its release is more of being the partially formed conception, the gestation period before the moment of truth with Metallica’s Ride The Lightning coming in 1984 and the genre exploding in its classic era between 1985 and 1992 when bands such as Sacred Reich, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax easily stood head and shoulders above anything coming out of continental Europe and in some respects the U.K.

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Anthrax, Worship Music. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 14th 2011.

Anthrax have long been lauded as one of the big four of Thrash Metal and quite rightly so. Heavyweight albums such as Among The Living, the entertaining Spreading the Disease and Persistence of Time have guaranteed the band a healthy and fanatical following over the years.

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