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By Mike Garnett The idea of creating a list of the 5 best metal albums of all time is fairly preposterous, the idea of the 5 best thrash albums is still daft but a bit more palatable.  There are of course many fine thrash albums. These are my own 5 killer LPs whose face melting guitar riffs have helped spawn and influence death metal, black metal, metalcore etc.  Enjoy and let us know who you think should have made the list?   Judas Priest – Painkiller (1990)   Judas Priest’s place in the pantheon of the metal gods had long-since...

by Marvin Phythian. Hey there musos, audiophiles and melomaniacs, here at RSR we’ve decided to give Desert island discs a 21st century reality check with our own version - Vinyl for the Apocalypse!  In our first and possibly last episode of this nature we spoke to Gavin Searle from the Kings of Frog Island… As the Zoom kicks in I see a silhouette with a background of space-age purple neon led lights before the focus adjusts to reveal Gavin Searle, lead singer and studio producer for the best Leicester band you may never have heard of. The Kings of Frog Island,...

Ned’s Atomic Dustbin once declared that “my childhood obsession was my record collection” and for many a person this is true. I’d love to be able to say that I was one of them, but no, my obsession was Airfix kits and not records - they came later….. You read many a story online or in the good old music magazines about some hipsters first record that is always inevitably cool beyond words: “Oh yeah, first record was bought from Our Price in Prestatyn when I was 6. First Pressing of God Save The Queen, on neon snot vinyl –...