Check out Detherous - Hacked to Death. I think you'll find a lot to like with this release, and your mentioned albums are definite influences on them.

I found out some good news and some not so good news about them.

The good news is they play a live show about a 40 minute drive from where I live next month.

The bad news is that I start a new job next month, and I am not able to book a day off or modify my schedule, so I can't attend.

It's sad, because maybe two or three metal shows come in my local area a year (metal music is banned by pretty much all venues within a two hour radius or so), and when one finally comes along, I can't attend it.

Hopefully, they'll come here again, and I'll be able to attend. But given the extreme rarity it is for metal of any kind to play where I live (in fact, you're lucky to find a venue that will even allow you to play pop-punk), I don't see that happening.

I'm looking for new-ish thrash that's well-written. It can be melodic or aggressive, I don't care, I just need it to be catchy and have interesting riffs. So much modern thrash I hear is really boring and not very well written, and I desperately want to hear a new thrash song with some killer choruses or badass riffs.

Check out "overlord" from my sig.

Update: my work start date has been pushed to next week, and I will be able to see Detherous live after all. Pumped.

Awesome, that new Detherous album was a good one indeed.


Critical Defiance's new album seems to be pretty popular. It's aggressive and well-written, albeit slightly overrated in my opinion. Also, Chainbreaker's Lethal Desire is a fun one, although it's arguably more speed metal than thrash.

Some rather unfortunate news.

I went to the show Detherous was scheduled to play at tonight, and it turned out that they weren't able to perform due to transportation issues.

So only two bands (Widow's Peak, who are the current tour partners for Detherous, and the local punk band Keith Doom and the Wrecking Crew) performed instead of the scheduled three.

Apart from the band members, there were only about five people who ended up attending the show.

Damn dude that sucks. I also lack metal in my locality but not to that degree sadly. Sorry to hear man.