LURKING EVIL - The Almighty Hordes Of The Undead

October 13, 2014, 9 years ago

(Razorback Records)

Greg Pratt

Rating: 7.0

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LURKING EVIL - The Almighty Hordes Of The Undead

First full-length up for these Spain-based thrashers after a 2012 EP, and they've got the backing of the cool Razorback behind them, which makes sense if you're familiar with that label and their love of all things old school, horror-filled, and metal. But the horror schlock isn't front row centre here as it often is for the band's labelmates; rather, you're just kinda aware that it's there through some song titles, artwork, and the occasional guitar riff that is more tip-toeing through the haunted house than it is Teutonic-thrash shredding (see awesomely titled 'Twins Of Evil' for a successful example of a fun, eerie riff). But mainly this one is heads-down speedy thrash, definitely of the darkened, blackened Euro variety, the one tempo that remains through the end of 'Twins Of Evil' (again, love it!) and right into 'Minion' as if it's just the exact same song acting as a clear statement of intent here. The band is definitely young: things are fun but forgettable, and as ham-fisted as they are headbanging, and the album kinda goes on and on, even with its economic 38-minute run time. But with the love of German thrash and Tom Warrior's old-school blackened thrash efforts all over this fun romp of a disc, you forgive those things. And "Blood Is Life"'s intro homage to Nuclear Assault will see the previous death-grunter reference and raise it a Noise Records logo and paranoid-cold-war-era apocalyptic cover art piece, thrash you very much.

 



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