BLOODWRITTEN — Thrashin' Fury (review)

BLOODWRITTEN — Thrashin' Fury album cover Album · 2010 · Thrash Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Vehemency
In both good and bad, Bloodwritten’s third full-length Thrashin’ Fury is general blackened thrash metal to the bone. While the fusion of the two genres go usually vice versa (thrashened black metal), Bloodwritten doesn’t deliver anything outstandingly unique here: this is basically evil thrash metal with high-pitched black metal screams.

Bloodwritten plays with precise timing and professionality: palm-muted riffs plus drums with good accentuated hits go well hand in hand, sounding always tight and ass-kicking. Give this all a modern, tight production treatment and you get a package of pretty well done metal. But this also makes me feel that Thrashin’ Fury is missing something daring: right now the album doesn’t venture pretty much anywhere, it stays true to its old school values from the first seconds to the last.

”Zombie Survival” belongs to one of the standout moments on the album as it brings a slight change in tempo after the three rampages before it, bringing some slower menacing atmosphere to the whole. Towards the end of the album, I’m feeling that the music doesn’t work as effectively as it did in the first half, and no surprise there, remembering the simple musical style that easily falls to stagnation after a couple of tracks.

Nonetheless, Thrashin’ Fury leaves a positive taste to my mouth afterwards. Pretty much nothing innovative is to be found from the record, but hey, that’s the way it goes with old school attitude. Speaking of which, I wouldn’t have minded if the production was a bit rawer - that could have given the music a little punch more.
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