A live review of GAMA BOMB and Evile will appear in tomorrow's (Thursday 27th) edition of Kerrang!, taken from the Thrash Metal Massacre gig in Birmingham. From what we've heard from our spies, it's all good and talks up the show well. Should be a nice foot-up for the UK Thrash scene in the rock meeja!

Read it with your face, and then tear your face off in disbelief because you can't believe it!

GAMA BOMB - Faster Is Gooder

wow , i didn't realise kerrang covered good bands

I will not buy this but I will sneak a peek in Smiths.

Only Gama Bomb and Evile? Didn't some other bands play that day too? The K! journos would have got there earlier but they were too busy sucking off Fall Out Boy.

Phillybomb wrote:Read it with your face, and then tear your face off in disbelief because you can't believe it!

It sounds like I've taken over your soul

I bloody will well read this unbelievable piece of goodness when it arrives on the shelf. I don't think I could bring myself to buy an issue of Kerrang (they don't need my money anyway), but I'll definitely read it and think to myself, "Well done, but what a shame Mutant or Deceptor or other boys weren't included, but well done anyway."

Bullet for my gamabomb

My chemical evile

I Kant wait to meet Xavier Russell at a thrash gig, so i Kan tell him how \Kompletely fukking annoying it was to have him konstantly replacing his c's with k's the kunt!

Thrash is gonna be invaded by emo's. it will be the new college scene. Before we know it, spotty 13 year olds will be doodling gama bamb on their exercise books, and a plethora of asian marketstall holders will be selling korean sweatshop mutant shirts and bandanas


Still, look on the brightside.......i may sell all my lich king LPs

terrorizer wrote:Only Gama Bomb and Evile? Didn't some other bands play that day too? The K! journos would have got there earlier but they were too busy sucking off Fall Out Boy.

Haven't you heard Ian? Kerrang has impaired eyesight these days - it only sees the bigger bands.

Good news for GB & Evile though, hopefully they'll do a bigger one for FTA (if at all).

Okay, I'll come clean, I wrote the K! piece under an alias. I wanted to write about the whole day but was told not to bother as none of the other bands are signed. I did point out that Pitiful Reign have a deal but was told no.

Traitor! Burn Him!

etc

terrorizer wrote:Okay, I'll come clean, I wrote the K! piece under an alias. I wanted to write about the whole day but was told not to bother as none of the other bands are signed. I did point out that Pitiful Reign have a deal but was told no.

frankly that is a disgusting attitude to have towards bands, how r bands supppsed to get the publicity in oder to help them get signed?? jeez...no wonder they never have any good ones to write about these days

terrorizer wrote:Okay, I'll come clean, I wrote the K! piece under an alias. I wanted to write about the whole day but was told not to bother as none of the other bands are signed. I did point out that Pitiful Reign have a deal but was told no.

Honestly? If that's true, it shows just how cuntish K! mag is...

Only joking, I didn't write the K! review!

It wouldn't suprise me though if the only reason Gama Bomb and Evile has been reviewed is because they are signed. My review will be appearing in Tz and will feature all of the bands, in fact the only performance I'm not writing about is the one that took place in the Gents prior to Let 'Em Burn.

The interest from K! and I also think Metal Hammer had a writer there, is a turning point and perhaps not a good one. It'll raise the profile of Evile and Gama Bomb for sure but I'm worried that it'll become "just the next big thing." It's too early for UK Thrash to emerge from the underground, there is a wealth of talent around but it needs time to grow away from the glare of the media. That is what fucked it up for UK Thrash the first time around. If we're not careful there will be a feeding frenzy from labels followed by a clear out soon after, UK Thrash deserves much better than that.

whoah, you psyched them hard terrorizer! haha!

I don't see why everyone slags Kerrang: it's just representative of main stream Metal in the UK - just like Hello! magazine doesn't really feature people no one's ever heard of. When Bon Jovi and Europe were big, they were in Kerrang. When Nirvana and Rage Against the Machine were big, they were in Kerrang. Do I need to go on?

Not that I'm really bothered, because I've been anticipating it for a while now, but Thrash will be the next big thing and that means it'll get into Kerrang. Sadly for a lot of the guys on here, that means you're going to have to share your favourite genre with 'poseurs'.

terrorizer wrote:The interest from K! and I also think Metal Hammer had a writer there, is a turning point and perhaps not a good one. It'll raise the profile of Evile and Gama Bomb for sure but I'm worried that it'll become "just the next big thing." It's too early for UK Thrash to emerge from the underground, there is a wealth of talent around but it needs time to grow away from the glare of the media. That is what fucked it up for UK Thrash the first time around. If we're not careful there will be a feeding frenzy from labels followed by a clear out soon after, UK Thrash deserves much better than that.

Everyone had a go at me when I said that, even though it makes perfect sense. There aren't enough fans of the scene yet for it to be viable as anything other than a flash in the pan venture.