Battalions of regimented steel, assemble and attack! This rollicking slab ‘o Speed Metal harkens back to the raucous bygone ‘era of mid 80’s mosh laden, d-beat mania, which not so subtlety induces whiplashing, neck snapping, head banging frenzy.
Straight out of the gates (of hell) Acid Lord lunges at you with the force of a trillion watt megastorm, unbridled in its unprecedented fury and Hirax meets (early) Metallica muster. Vo”kill”ist Heathen Hammer unfurls lurid tales of the radically twisted and double fisted, with an inhumane chordal range that recalls (early) Randy O, Tim Baker, and a higher range, air-raid siren squelch along the lines of Warrell Dane at his most perturbingly supernatural. The incendiary riff that is ‘Hellhounds’ is wrangled menacingly from guitarist Neil Napalm’s intrepid fretboard strangulation.
Definitely present day Deathhammer by way of Razor in execution and forged in the marginalized fires that only Anvil would approve of. Another album highlight is ‘Cyborg Holocaust’, an uptempo rager, high on salacious energy and forthcoming in its daring proclamations of a dreary A.I. enhanced future. Lyrically, it’s quite humbling and eye opening: “Manufacture a virus, Infect their microchip minds, Jam and javelin through their CPUs, Victory for mankind”. Poetically frightening and frought with urban decay by way of technological warfare. ‘Speed Tyrant’ makes you bleed for speed and the boisterous clatterings of drummer Chris Marshall bring it to a fever pitch. Definitely an adrenaline infusion that will cause fractures in the bones of the bravest pit attendees.
All in all, this is a new milestone in Thrash history. Fortified with mile a minute fortitude and brash injections of breakneck histrionics. Get this now!
