Tag Archives: thrash metal

(review) Wratheon – Black Thrash Mass

Wratheon is an entity hailing from USA and this is the first e.p. containing five songs. Now this is what I call fine e.p. that just made my day and made smile return to my face and my old metal heart beating faster. Music of Wratheon is fast mixture of blackened thrash with almost some hardcore punk song parts thrown in here and there or is it only me. I was blown immediately away with superb melody and aggressiveness of In Seance but all got even better song by song. A Fire Burns is also fast song made to pump your fist in the air and ride to battle with, but having also almost sad and anguished melody behind all of the darkness and flame with clever use of keyboards in some song parts. Vocals are black metal like but you can understand almost all what is being sung, so it is another plus. With Crimson Eyes is an all out thrash metal attack with blackened vibe and double bass destroying everything in its path and blast beats bringing black metal in the forefront of aural assault yet also having wicked melody in guitar work. Life is an instrumental with lots of changes in tempo and showing more guitar oriented side of the band. Unescapable Null is for me somehow the darkest song on this e.p. ending in me wanting more and eagerly awaiting for the full length.

8,5/10

(news) Rocking Corpses released a new single War for Doom from their upcoming second studio album Death Blues!

Promo pic by Väinö Hörkkä

Finnish Rocking Corpses is a putrid mix of rock, death metal, zombies, other horror themes and some really black humour. The band is set to release their second studio album Death Blues on July 2nd 2021 via Inverse Records. A new single and video War For Doom is released today.

The band comments:
“War for Doom was created in dawn of our studio sessions. We were listening to our demos and thinking that the album may be lacking one faster song so we geared up and this tune was ready before sundown. Vocals were finished by Laze during sessions and while the song may be a bit out of the general line of the album, it successfully finishes the loose story of the album. War for Doom was considered as a single before but we ended up with the 3 earlier singles (Buried, Another Day in Casket, Body) but when the deal with Inverse Records was made, the first suggestion for a single was this song. Well, here it is!”   

LISTEN to the single on:
Youtube: https://youtu.be/qMiAp4qNBpA
Bandcamp: https://rockingcorpses.bandcamp.com
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2QL7pak
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/album/217871652
Tidal:  https://listen.tidal.com/album/178566629
Apple Music: https://apple.co/3x9nzet

Pre-save Death Blues album to your Spotify playlist: https://bit.ly/3dcNRDB

Pre-save Drinking With The Dead single to your Spotify playlist: https://bit.ly/3cAZB3r

Watch earlier released music video Buried: https://youtu.be/c_fSJeSKcVs

Watch earlier released music video Another Day In Casket: https://youtu.be/8RNvJnW1MZc

Line-Up:Leper Laze – VocalsTony Decay – Guitar, dirty vocalsPestilence Pete – GuitarMaggot Mike – BassTom Bones – Drums 

Links:https://www.facebook.com/RockingCorpses

https://www.instagram.com/rockingcorpses
https://rockingcorpses.bandcamp.comhttps://rockingcorpses.com

(review) Pathfinders – Ares Vallis

Pathfinders are hailing from France and this is their debut full length album. This band was formed in 2018 and they called themselves after NASA´s space probe Mars Pathfinder. Like their namesake, these guys are not afraid to explore the outer fringes and expand the limits of modern metal. It is thrash metal with progressive and groove metal influences but it is so much more. This is modern metal, although I cringe a little still when I hear this term. Pathfinders play metal. Period. Guitar work is harsh, heavy and not to be joked with, but there are enough melodic and catchy guitar hooks with some atmospheric parts, almost melancholic, but then again it returns to harsher side of metal. Vocals are story for themselves. How easily they transform into screaming, return to melodic beautiful clean voice then back again to almost thrash angry shouting and growling. I love it. Songs are aggressive, yet so varied and so imaginative and well written. At times music of Pathfinders reminds me of Croatian band called Core System, yet Pathfinders are more hard and more metal and I love it. My personal highlights are: Damned Earth, Precious Star. This is a very strong debut album.

8,5/10