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5 Essential Thrash Metal Albums

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5 Essential Thrash Metal Albums

By Mike Garnett The idea of creating a list of the 5 best metal albums of all time is fairly preposterous, the idea of the 5 best thrash albums is still daft but a bit more palatable.  There are of course many fine thrash albums. These are my own 5 killer LPs whose face melting guitar riffs have helped spawn and influence death metal, black metal, metalcore etc.  Enjoy and let us know who you think should have made the list?   Judas Priest – Painkiller (1990)   Judas Priest’s place in the pantheon of the metal gods had long-since...

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The Kings of Frog Island - Vinyl for the Apocalypse!

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The Kings of Frog Island - Vinyl for the Apocalypse!

by Marvin Phythian. Hey there musos, audiophiles and melomaniacs, here at RSR we’ve decided to give Desert island discs a 21st century reality check with our own version - Vinyl for the Apocalypse!  In our first and possibly last episode of this nature we spoke to Gavin Searle from the Kings of Frog Island… As the Zoom kicks in I see a silhouette with a background of space-age purple neon led lights before the focus adjusts to reveal Gavin Searle, lead singer and studio producer for the best Leicester band you may never have heard of. The Kings of Frog Island,...

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