Havok

Havok, the respected thrash metal revivalists who signed with BLKIIBLK at the end of May 2026, are unveiling a fresh original single, The Ultimate Weapon. You can check out the new single, which comes with an official lyric video,…

Havok, the much-respected thrash metal revivalists, have signed with BLKIIBLK. To mark the start of a new chapter in their enviable career, Havok have also released a new single, Fifth Generation Warfare. You can check out the new…

Anyone who claims thrash is dead and buried should have been at Thursday's gig at Orto, because it was living proof that thrash is alive and kicking.

»Conformicide« is an incredibly convincing album in filigree packaging: razor-sharp, piercing thrash metal revivalism. With it, Havok confirm their maturing as songwriters and live up to the sky-high praise they got for their previous…

"Possessed could only wrap up their set one way, which was also the perfect finish to the day – Death Metal!"

On day three the weather finally took pity on us, and Wednesday served up a fiasco from the big headliners, the heroes of today's metal scene. Meanwhile, the small-stage set by the legendary band that gave its name to an entire genre was a…

" Thrash metal has either said everything there is to say, or the scene just doesn't have enough capable bands to make the genre interesting again. If nothing else, you have to admit the bands on this bill are at least eco-conscious. You…

If nothing else, you have to admit the bands on stage are at least eco-minded. You don't just stumble on this many recycled ideas in one place.

" Suffocation prove again and again that they are and remain an unstoppable death metal force, firmly planted on death metal's bloody throne!"

The Boys Are Back In Town was what Thin Lizzy sang in 1976, and the legendary New York death metal giants brutally tore it up on their third return to our capital. But no matter how many times Suffocation come back, the local death metal…

"We haven't hosted a package of bands this good in a long time. It's genuinely rare for every act to be excellent, from the first opener onward, which makes it all the sadder that there were barely more of us in Gala hala than members of…

This time, in the spirit of the Canadian landing on Juno Beach in Normandy, 3 Inches of Blood (if I'm not mistaken, for the first time) stormed into Gala hala as headliners, bringing their brothers-in-arms Havok, Angelus Apatrida and…