Listening to Scrüda’s ‘Extreme Speed Violence’ feels like having your head unceremoniously slammed into a rusty iron furnace while someone pours boiling gasoline down your throat.
Clocking in at less than nine blistering minutes across six tracks, this Polish trio, comprising Wall of Flesh, Firecracker, and The Conqueror, delivers an unrelenting slab of primitive Black/Thrash Speed Metal. Their sound sits right at the filthy crossroads where the crusty, beer-soaked venom of Gehennah and Midnight collides head-on with the razor-sharp, frantic attack of early Nifelheim and Vulcano.
Instead of hiding behind modern studio gloss, this Godz Ov War Productions release lets the tape bleed with a gritty, raw execution. Cuts like the title track ‘Extreme Speed Violence’ and the rabid ‘Shameless’ explode with neck-breaking d-beats and jagged riffage that prioritize pure impulse over technical fluff.
If there is a drawback, it’s that the extreme brevity leaves you wanting more; the assault flies past so quickly that ideas can blur together before a hook fully anchors itself. It functions more like a manic jolt of adrenaline than a fully developed release.
Still, for die-hards seeking unadulterated, high-octane underground chaos, Scrüda gets the job done in record time.
