TERRIFIER — Weapons of Thrash Destruction (review)

TERRIFIER — Weapons of Thrash Destruction album cover Album · 2017 · Thrash Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
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Terrifier are a thrash metal band that plays good, intense, old school, metal up your f**king ass, thrash. Think Exodus "Bonded by Blood", Kreator "Pleasure to Kill", and Testament "The New Order" but without so many clean electric guitar bits. Think fast, furious, and intense! Speedy riffs with a few awesome crunchers in there; hyper speed drumming; searing solos; and shouted vocals with that hardcore punk influenced, coarse screech.

"Reanimator" is the perfect intro, breaking out of the gate at full throttle, dirt and dust flying out the back. This track has all the hallmarks of what thrash metal should be about. The speed and spittle don't let up! These guys don't seem to do slow. "Schizoid Embolism" is about the movie "Total Recall" and even begins with a sound clip from the movie when Arnie says, "You blew my cover!"

"Drunk as Fuck" is a salute to metal party life. "Raise your beer / Come and get it up, slurp it down / til the glass is clear / Drunk as fuck / we're gonna party all night / til the fucking sun comes up"

It's only finally at track 8, "Riders of Doom" that we get to slow down a bit with a short instrumental that begins with clean guitars and serves more as a showcase for dramatic and melodic lead guitar work. Then we're back to break "head-banging" neck speed for the final track, "Sect of the Serpent", which is just as speed crazy fun as "Reanimator".

Terrifier is a thrash band that just want to go ballistic. This album has no classical guitar intros, no slower or doom-like tracks. Except for the short instrumental that is still heavy but just not so fast, the album remains tight and precise as it goes careening through the air at full thrashing speed. That might be its only strike against it - little variation. But I think for 9 tracks and 42 minutes, it totally slays as a thrash metal album!
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