Tag: Thrash Metal
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Eternal Drak have unleashed a violent, thrash-driven strike with their second single, The Unborn Paths Rot. Out now via Canadian label FirstWave, the blistering track sharpens the band’s attack and deepens the identity of their upcoming album, The Violence of Time, due out on July 17th, 2026. Following the May release of their first single,…
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After some much needed rest, for my damn sanity if nothing else, I returned to work this morning with some brand new plans for The Cult Archives. The first one being this what you are now reading what I wrote (to paraphrase the great Ernie Wise). The fact is I receive a metric-fuck-ton (an official…
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Bogotá outfit Poison The Preacher are moving fast. Hot on the heels of the critical buzz surrounding their 2025 debut album Vs The World, the Colombian crossover unit has announced a new EP titled Things I Want, arriving July 17th, via Seek and Strike. To anchor the announcement, the band has delivered a fierce opening…
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Are you sitting comfortably? Good, then I’ll begin. You need to go and buy this album. Right now. Stop what you’re doing, fuck this review, and go purchase Blood Marks before we go any further, because you need to hear it as I’m not convinced my words can do it justice. What Abuser have unleashed…
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The Cult Archives isn’t just your late-night gateway to underground cinema and unholy noise, it’s also the beating, blackened heart of the BMA record label. This is where the theory stops and the damage begins. The BMA exists for one reason: to take everything we love about the underground, and press it into something you…
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Colombian speed freaks Louder have floored it with their new track Speed Junkie, the second single from their upcoming debut album Devil’s Night, arriving May 14th, via Fighter Records. It lands as a lyric video, and this thing is built to burn rubber and stay loud. Speed Junkie sets the tone early: rapid-fire riffs, pounding…
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There is a specific kind of skepticism that usually accompanies the comeback of a band that has been dormant for nearly two decades. In the fast-moving machinery of the Metal world, twenty years is several lifetimes. Trends rise and fall, sub-genres splinter into a thousand niche fragments, and the fire that once fueled a young…