Metal Forces

Metal Forces

Metal Forces cover from August 1988
Editor	Bernard Doe
Categories	Rock music
Frequency	Weekly
Founder	Bernard Doe
Year founded	1983 (1983)
Final issue	1992 (1992)
Company	Rockzone Publications Ltd.
Country	United Kingdom
Based in	Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England
Language	English
Website	metalforcesmagazine.com

Metal Forces presents: Demolition - Scream Your Brains Out!
Compilation album by Various Artists
Released	1988
Genre	Thrash metal
Label	Chain Reaction Records

Metal Forces is a British publication founded in 1983 which promotes the music genres heavy metal and hard rock. Metal Forces was well known for its coverage of unsigned bands through its Demolition feature and championed the likes of Metallica,Slayer, Megadeth, HellsBelles, Overkill, Death and Poison long before they had secured record deals. They are credited as contributing in this fashion to the success of the band Anacrusis. Dave Reynolds, a former writer for Metal Forces, has claimed that the magazine was the first to coin the terms thrash metal and death metal. A Metal Forces compiled vinyl album, Demolition - Scream Your Brains Out!, based on the magazine's popular Demolition column, was released in 1988 through Chain Reaction Records featuring Anacrusis, Atrophy, Hobbs' Angel of Death, Aftermath and the Chris Barnes fronted Leviathan. In addition to metal acts, the magazine also featured interviews with alternative rock acts such as Nirvana.

In August 1991 Metal Forces created the offshoot publication Thrash 'n Burn, a monthly title dedicated to extreme metal.

Metal Forces was created in 1983 by Bernard Doe, with the first issue released in August 1983. Articles covered and promoted mainly bands that were relatively unknown at the time. Metal Forces aided greatly in promoting unknown bands and heavy metal and hard rock during the 1980s and early 1990s, becoming one of UK's top music magazines during that period.