Twenty-nine years after ‘Obnoxious’ appeared in the shops UK thrash pioneers Acid Reign are preparing to unleash a new album ‘The Age Of Entitlement’, which vocalist Howard ‘H’ Smith refers to as “a contemporary thrash album with an old-school twist, or an old-school thrash album with a contemporary twist,” on the unsuspecting public later this year. With a four disc retrospective scheduled for…

To most New Wave Of British Heavy Metal fans Satan’s Empire will probably forever be best known for their song ‘Soldiers Of War’, perhaps THE highlight of Neat Records’ ‘Lead Weight’ cassette, released back in 1981. The problem was, in those pre-internet days, few of us knew anything about the band aside from that one track, and it wasn’t until they reformed at…

“Win Lose or Draw is our fourth album of the modern era. It will be instantly recognisable as a Salem UK album to our fans, the classic melodic rock element is still there, and of course we have the unmistakable lead vocals of Simon. Francis brings a harder, more modern edge to the music and has certainly dragged our songwriting into the modern…