DESTROYER 666 - Cold Steel... For An Iron Age
August 13, 2002, 22 years ago
(Season Of Mist)
After releasing the long-awaited predecessor Phoenix Rising last year, Australia's metallic bad boys didn't waste any time whatsoever in unleashing another wolf pack attack. Whereas Phoenix Rising was the band's most experimental album to date, that one following their best album, the monumental Unchain The Wolves, Cold Steel is the band's most thrashiest, hard-hitting head-knocker. Black thrash the way it was meant to be played, Cold Steel slices sharp, the album whizzing by you in no time (and yes, it's too short). But man do these jackals know thrash, while maintaining a strong metallic tradition as well as an epic aura. Again swarmed in philosophical musings (the band having been no strangers to controversy), Cold Steel shows a keen sophistication despite the madness.
