Louise Brown's Triple Thrash Treat

This week I'm very pleased and honoured to bring you a trio of videos chosen by Miss Louise Brown, the editor of Terrorizer. She obviously knows her stuff, if you haven't heard of Terrorizer magazine for whatever reason, please take a gander here : http://www.terrorizer.com/frontpage_mmx

Anyway Lousie is a professional writer, and I'm not. So I'll let her introduce the videos herself!

Thanks again Louise x

Sacrilege - The Captive (Live in Birmingham 1988)

I've decided to base my three videos around women who seriously kick ass. None of this corset warbling bullshit (which I must admit I'm slightly partial too) and definitely reinforcing the belief that women have positive role models in this very male-centred world. Certainly beats that Fuel Girl/Steel Panther groupie bullshit that seems to be infiltrating every facet of my beloved music scene at the moment. Let's start with Tam Simpson from Sacrilege. Basically Birmingham in the late '80s must have been a seriously exciting place to live in you were into heavy metal. Look! This is a Candlemass show. Fuck! And Sacrilege are opening. If I'd lived there Tam would have been my hero. She is anyway. Xtreem Records just put out a compilation of their demos - get it!

Arkona - Pokrovi Nebesnogo Startsa

I grew up with folk music so as you can imagine I'm pretty much at my happiest around folk metal. I was raised on a heady diet of strong, female voices from Sandy Denny, Melanie, Maddy Prior, Jacqui McShee and folk metal seems to be the one sub-genre of metal where women are most accepted. From the more acoustic fare of Jex Thoth through to this blackened outpouring of menstual mayhem courtesy of Russia's Arkona. Vocalist Masha Scream is a true matriarch - I can imagine her ancestral sisters ruling the tribe and putting the warrior men firmly in their place.

The Runaways - Rock N Roll

I can't fucking wait for the biopic based on the lives of Joan Jett, Cherrie Currie, Sandy West, Micky Steele, Lita Ford and Jackie Fox. The Runaways did what they wanted. They were punk rock incarnate. The boys wanted to be with them and the girls wanted to be them. They paved the way and girls, we love you for it.