Bolt Thrower

Bolt Thrower are a British death metal band from Coventry, England. They formed in 1986 and released their first album with Vinyl Solution in 1988. The band then shifted to a new record label, Earache Records, soon becoming one of the best selling bands on that label. Their current label is Metal Blade Records. The band has had a succession of members and have toured Europe, the United States, and Australia. As of 2015, Bolt Thrower have released eight studio albums (the last of which was released in 2005), three EPs, one live album, two compilation albums and two demos.

History

Early history: 1986–1988

Bolt Thrower were formed in September 1986 as a thrash/punk band, influenced largely by bands such as Slayer, Crass and Discharge. The band was founded by bassist Gavin Ward and guitarist Barry Thomson in a Coventry pub toilet during a hardcore punk gig. Shortly thereafter Andrew Whale and Alan West joined on drums and vocals respectively. In April 1987 the In Battle There Is No Law demo was recorded with this line-up.

Those Once Loyal

Those Once Loyal is the eighth album by the British death metal band Bolt Thrower. It was released on 11 November 2005 in Germany, 14 November 2005 in the rest of Europe and 15 November 2005 in the USA by Metal Blade Records. It was recorded and mixed at Sable Rose Studios in Coventry, England. It is produced by the band and Andy Faulkner. Those Once Loyal is Bolt Thrower's latest studio album to date, and their final one with drummer Martin Kearns, who died in September 2015.

Like all of Bolt Thrower's albums, Those Once Loyal deals with war, specifically World War I. The cover shows a World War 1 QF 18 pounder field gun and its crew in action and is based on an original WW1 photograph.

Reception

Ian Finley praised the album in Terrorizer as "immune to the corrupting influence of all musical trends" while offering "the epitome of what a metal album should be: hard, fast and uncompromising".

Track listing

All songs written by Bolt Thrower

Personnel

Bolt

Bolt or Bolts may refer to:

Common meanings

Arts and entertainment

Earache Records

Earache Records is an independent record label based in Nottingham, England and New York, United States. It helped to pioneer extreme metal by releasing many of the earliest grindcore and death metal records in the period 1988–1994.

History

Earache was founded in 1985 by Digby "Dig" Pearson. In 1985, before adopting the name "Earache Records," Pearson released Anglican Scrape Attic, a compilation of early hardcore punk and crossover acts (Hirax, Lipcream, Concrete Sox, etc.). The first official Earache release, on vinyl in 1987 and with the catalogue reference MOSH 1, was The Accüsed's The Return of Martha Splatterhead. This was followed by a split LP by the crust/crossover band Concrete Sox and the proto-grind band Heresy. The label's first release to gain attention outside the hardcore scene was MOSH 3, Napalm Death's Scum. The record did well, getting airplay on John Peel's show on BBC Radio 1, and going to number 7 in the UK indie chart. Following on from the success of Scum, the label signed many acts from the then-emerging genres of grindcore and death metal, such as Morbid Angel, Carcass, Entombed and Terrorizer, all of whom, along with Napalm Death and Heresy, are now recognised as pioneers of the two genres.

...For Victory

…For Victory is the fifth album by British death metal band Bolt Thrower. It was recorded at Sawmill studios in 1994, produced by Colin Richardson and Bolt Thrower. A limited edition contains a live CD titled Live War.

The song "…For Victory" contains a quote from Laurence Binyon poem, known as the Ode of Remembrance.

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