Pete Wadeson

Neat Metal Records Unlike most bands rooted in the N.W.O.B.H.M., Sweet Savage are still genuinely relevant to these modern metal times. This fact is made immediately apparent with more than the occasional techno-metal leanings on this their latest offering, the cryptically-entitled “Rune.” A big part of the ‘new’-sounding Sweet Savage is whizz-kid guitarist Simon McBride. […]

Earache Records All hail– the true original innovators of death metal are back! So who cares if original vocalist/bassist David Vincent has left to be with and have his Genitorturers, as it were! His replacement, Steve Tucker, growls, snarls and totally stamps his dominating presence on each and every track on this the band’s fifth […]

Reproductive Records Throttle are a two-piece comprising of John Overstreet on guitar and Daniel Coughlin on drums. To try to give an insight into what this duo sounds like is quite difficult as at times the guys lay down heavy as Sabbath ever did, then go off the wall like Zappa tried to. In parts […]

Without a doubt Slayer were once prime movers on the extreme metal scene of which they virtually created back in the mid-eighties. “Diabolus In Musica” is the band’s first album in nearly four years and their seventh full length studio release to date – so how do Slayer measure up in the late ’90s? I […]

16th June 2000, Earl’s Court Exhibition Centre, London, England

Surfdog/Hollywood Records