Bolt Thrower: The Difference Between War and Battle
Bolt Thrower seems to be important for the time it was formed as opposed to the spate of releases it issued over the band’s decade and change of existence. Metal and its even more dour exponent wrapped in the adjective black, as if that was needed, don’t general center on the UK as source of the music, apart from Black Sabbath. That group, though, dates back to the late sixties and a town called Birmingham. Maybe Coventry, Bolt Thrower’s home town, and its proximity to Sabbath’s initial base has something to do with this all.
