Guardian Music — From Machine Head to Slayer, the editors of Kerrang! have picked the heaviest records everThere's a certain part of metal that gives it its edge; an extra bite that separates it from pop. It can mean enormous riffs, ungodly speed, wrecking-ball groov... more info

Metalsucks — Sick Drummer is streaming a new Brutal Truth song, called “Echo Friendly Discharge,” and it’s some crazy, crazy fucking shit, but that’s not really news, ’cause Rich Hoak sneezes and produces crazy fucking shit. What IS news is that the ban... more info

Popdose — Dave Steed takes a look at new releases from The Nightwatchman and Retox as well as reissues of classics from Discharge and Squash Bowels. more info

Stereogum — Veteran Finnish quintet Unkind play crusty, guitar-sliding d-beat punk that should interest fans of Discharge, Tragedy, and Disfear as well as folks into the dark atmospherics mastered by Amebix and Converge. The band’s fifth album (and Relapse deb... more info

Pop Justice — People sometimes say to us, "we know you like envlopes Popjustice - who doesn't? - but what sort of envelope do you like above all others?". It's a tough question to answer but we can without any hesitation say that if we were to compile a Top 10 env... more info

Guardian Music — As the Oakland band make a rare UK appearance, they explain their quest for 'somewhere deeper, somewhere more emotional, somewhere elemental'"When you learn to surrender to something bigger than yourself, you're acknowledging the realm of spirit – ... more info

Thrash Hits — There’s only one band playing Damnation Festival that truly follows their own path, and couldn’t give two flying fucks about what anyone else at Leeds Student Union thinks about it, and it’s ain’t those aging punks, Discharge. Once again, Rol... more info

Thrash Hits — Discharge were another band that we missed due to scheduling. Bah. At this point we were having our tits bored off by Alcest over on the Rock Sound stage. It seems that Gary Wolstenholme was the one having all the fun again – hopefully we’ll fi... more info

Killed By Death Records — Yepp, it´s time again to bring out the needle and scratch the a-side. A totally bland pop song that´s even too soft and sissy for me. A mystery. What where they thinking when All the Rage is such a foot stomper it makes They declare it by Discharge... more info

Thrash Hits — The latest line-up announcement for this year’s Damnation Festival contains both good and bad news. The good news is obvious – legendary crustpunks Discharge and the extraordinarily-influential British thrash outfit Sabbat have joined the line-up... more info