Tag: Thrash Metal
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Bogotá-based heavy quartet Poison The Preacher have released their new crossover EP, Things I Want, via Seek and Strike. The release is accompanied by a music video for the new single Ran Out Of Options, a track that explores the psychological weight of ambition and the pursuit of demanding personal goals. Emerging from the Colombian…
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If you think about it, we are all utterly terrified of time. We buy expensive watches, we set alarms, and we pretend we have some semblance of control over the minutes ticking away, but deep down, we know the truth: time is a slow, patient executioner. It doesn’t guide us, it subdues us. It is…
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Portuguese technical thrash metal unit Shadowmare have announced their highly anticipated return with their third studio album, Transfiguration, scheduled to drop on August 11th. The album marks the band’s first new music following a turbulent period of internal transition. After navigating several lineup changes, the group has reconstituted as a streamlined four-piece. This new era…
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Athens-based thrash metal outfit Eternal have officially announced the details for their upcoming studio album, Conspiracy of Warheads. Scheduled to land on September 28th via Floga Records, the new effort marks a definitive statement from a band dedicated to preserving the fast, loud, and unyielding energy of the 1980s underground. The upcoming record delivers a…
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Sydney thrash metal band Decimator have debuted their newly revamped lineup on the single The Gap, out now via Wormholedeath. The track features new drummer Ash Pollard behind the kit and acts as the initial taste of the band’s upcoming studio album. The song takes its name and concept from Sydney’s infamous coastal cliff landmark,…
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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…