The Killchain Blog
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Metal blog dedicated to the riff. Supporting the underground. Donations to http://ko-fi.com/killchainblog would be appreciated Cynically resigned, annihilate Mankind
2026 Anniversary Series 073: 36 Crazyfists - Rest Inside the Flames #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/2...
2026 Anniversary Series 073: 36 Crazyfists – Rest Inside the Flames
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 10th June 2006 I was fascinated to learn, while doing this series, that 36 Crazyfists had been going for about 10 years longer than I thought they had. I only …
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Teaching my seven year old to always do the right thing has come back to bite me on the arse today as the moral wee bastard is refusing to sneak sweeties into the cinema because 'it's not right'
Review: @eveale.bsky.social -Enter the Woodland Realm #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/r...
Review: Eveale – Enter the Woodland Realm
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 1st May 2026 If there’s something I will always get sucked in by, it is a black metal record with a gloriously classical painting as its artwork, and natu…
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Black Seeds of Vengeance, I Their Darkened Shrines, Annihilation of the Wicked??
Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d agoWhat's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)
A great, rabid little EP of pure Teutonic thrash from the States. A decade old, but still shreds like fuck
Review: A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers - Towers of Silence #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2026/08/02/a...
Review: A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers – Towers of Silence
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 8th May 2026 While A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers’ name could reference the Van De Graaf Generator song, or the Robert Eggers movie or something else equa…
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One of my favourite EPs so far this year, making sludge interesting again with drone and manic jazz passages surrounding some skull cracking riffs. Weird but fucking great
Why is it every Netflix documentary has subtitles under the non native English speakers, even when their English is perfectly understandable?
If you're looking for some chunky modern thrash that has a kind of old school songwriting style to it, you could do a lot worse than this. It's a little long at just over an hour, but it has loads of banging riffs so you can deal with it
Review: Ageless Gateway - Corruptor of Stars #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2026/08/02/r...
Review: Ageless Gateway – Corruptor of Stars
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 17th April 2026 The debut release from Polish black metal project Ageless Gateway is the work of one, mysterious individual known as Apparation, and it takes th…
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This is a very, very special record. If you want some deeply atmospheric and dark black metal, this is the album for you
Review: Nothingness - Godslaughter #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2026/08/01/r...
Review: Nothingness – Godslaughter
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 31st July 2026 Minneapolis death metal beasts Nothingness have been putting out some great albums over the past few years, giving you death metal that totally r…
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Grim Australian crossover/death/groove metal with some really nice riffs and some savage vocals. A fun little EP
2026 Anniversary Series 072: @metallica.com - Load #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2026/08/01/2...
2026 Anniversary Series 072: Metallica – Load
Scribed by Sandre the Giant What do you do when you released the biggest rock album since ‘Back in Black’? Well, if you’re Metallica, you follow that up with delving deeply into y…
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There is a massive moon rising near my house that genuinely looks like a sunburnt Death Star
Writing the next anniversary series piece on 'Load' and realised, why the fuck am I listening to it again, I must have heard it 847 times in my life
You could make a genuine, solid argument that 'Metal Health' by Quiet Riot may have the best 80s metal chorus of all time
Review: Sandstorm - Dungeon of Death #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/r...
Review: Sandstorm – Dungeon of Death
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 22nd May 2026 Brought together under the banner of the most classic of heavy metal sounds, Canadian/Swedish heavy metal heroes Sandstorm have returned with a br…
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LADS! This is the one, this is 1982 all over again
Review: Carbon Tomb - Passage to a Neutron Star #metalsky @transcendingobs.bsky.social thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/r...
Review: Carbon Tomb – Passage to a Neutron Star
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 12th July 2026 Danish progressive, technical and dissonant death metallers Carbon Tomb are a new outfit but their chosen style is one that their current label h…
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The Metal Archives are incredible. I've just seen a band themselves submit a report to correct their own genre which is mislabelled completely on there, and the 'experts' have decided that they are wrong...
2026 Anniversary Series 071: Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2026/07/28/2...
2026 Anniversary Series 071: Peeping Tom – Peeping Tom
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 30th May 2006 Named for the 1960 movie of the same name about a serial killer, Peeping Tom was one of the inimitable Mike Patton’s many side projects ove…
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Mike Patton's greatest lyric is "I know that assholes grow on trees but I'm here to trim the leaves" and it's on a record that I'll bet few people even remember
2026 Anniversary Series 070: Celtic Frost - Monotheist #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/2...
2026 Anniversary Series 070: Celtic Frost – Monotheist
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 29th May 2006 One of the most important extreme metal bands in history, Swiss legends Celtic Frost had been largely silent since the release of ‘Vanity/N…
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MADNESS REIGNS...... IN THE HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING!
As part of an upcoming project, I'm attempting to own every track from the Brutal Legend soundtrack on CD if possible. Some of these Budgie records are going to be expensive...
2026 Anniversary Series 069: Bathory - Blood on Ice #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2026/07/24/2...
2026 Anniversary Series 069: Bathory – Blood on Ice
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 27th May 1996 An album that Bathory mastermind Quorthon shelved in 1989 for sounding too different from the band’s sound (he was probably right), 1996…
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Review: Reeking Aura - On the Promise of the Moon #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2026/07/22/r...
Review: Reeking Aura – On the Promise of the Moon
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 17th April 2026 New York/New Jersey’s Reeking Aura may be a new-ish band but their number is made up by a slew of scene veterans from across the NYDM spec…
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