Mix & Text from A Fist in the Face of God

Alright! It’s been, what, five months now since an offering brimming with thrash lava erupted into your very eyes. Well, Bradley Smith and Cato Stormoen have made a follow-up to their insanely popular Thrashing Rage, Vol. II mixtape, this time abandoning the thrash gods of old in favour of the new flesh. Yes, that is right, this killer 19-track comp features only bands from the latter part of the 90s, 2000s, right up until this very year. I’ve actually been planning to do one of these myself for a while now, but what with all the dragon-fighting, wench-fucking and weed-smoking, there just hasn’t been the time.
Words from Brad after the break; Cato is too busy being a real motherfucker somewhere to give his ten cents right now, sorry.

“The previous two Thrashing Rage mixes focused on old school bands that deserved a shining beam of unholy light cast upon them. But talking with Cato, I realised that there are a whole new crop of diabolical thrash bands whose music corrupts your blackened soul. And we decided then and there to unleash a tornado of TRUE thrash, but with a modern perspective!” – Brad

TRACKLIST: THRASHING RAGE, VOL. III & DOWNLOAD Link after the jump!
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Norwegian thrashers Nekromantheon have just released their second album, Rise, Vulcan Spectre—an album about “offering virgin’s blood to the beasts, defeating your enemies with might and learning the wisdom of the dead”. So it’s a ritual, of sorts. Since I last spoke to them, the trio have inherited a live guitarist, enfeebled London two Octobers running, and made a name for themselves by lacerating live audiences all over Europe and America. The ancient metal-hailing Sindre (bassist and sometime vocalist) and Kick (drummer and studio wizard) chatted to me about their new album and drinking the blood of murder victims.

AFITFOG: So tell me, what have you guys been doing since the release of your debut record?

‪Nekromantheon‬: After the release of Divinity Of Death, we were keen to write new stuff as soon as possible. We’d been playing live as Obliteration quite a lot at the time, so it was more fun for us to write new stuff with Nekromantheon. I guess you could say we learned from our first album and instantly wanted to make something faster, dirtier and even more evil.
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That’s right, lady, eat the baby. It’s been three months and over 1000 downloads of their first collaboration, but Brad and Cato have composed another trans-Atlantic mix of forgotten ancient metal all for your listening pleasure, or displeasure, depending on how you feel about obscure 80s thrash. Words from the mixmasters below…

Unheralded thrash got a shot in the arm with our first mix, so Cato and I decided that we needed to take another journey into the thrash underground, though this time it would be darker, more obscure, and ultimately more dangerous! When our two sets of selections were united I was left battered and bruised. So once again, I’ll let the music take no prisoners as it shreds your eardrums.
Brad

Tracklist & Download After the jump!!!
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So it’s been just over six months since I last directed your gaze into the kaleidoscope of metal through the ages from regular A Fist In The Face Of God mixmaker Fenriz aka DJ V.K.O.M., but fear not, here we have part two of his legendary Metal Merchants DJ Set mixes. Words from the man after the break.

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Okay, so it’s taken me an AGE to get it together to post anything on here, but the metal Gods have blessed us with a brand new mix, of the thrash variety, courtesy of regular A Fist in the Face of God mixmaker Bradley Smith and Deathhammer‘s Cato Stormoen.

In a similar vein to the crust mix Brad did for me with Sindre back in March, this was conducted solely over email, as Brad is still living it up in Hawaii while Cato leaves in a cave somewhere in Norway, battling the cold winds of death. Anyways, it is an impressive line-up, with some surprises for even the most weathered thrasher out there. Words from Brad and Cato after the break. READ MORE…