Thrash Metal

When I first heard Blood Tsunami's demo a few years back, I've been waiting since to hear new work from them. When it finally came out, I had pretty high expectations. Luckily they were worth it!

Whilst this album is called "Thrash Metal", I must say that 80s thrash metal fans (for example) won't find anything they'd expect from a name like that. This is a very modern thrash metal sound, insanely influenced by Göthenburg death metal. On songs like "Infernal Final Carnage" it just can't be denied that Arch Enemy is so recognizable throughout the whole song. 'Arise warriors of darkness' is grunted on a total Angela-way, wheredue it must be said that this isn't good ol' thrash, but this will be appreciated more by deaththrash and Göthenburg fans. Though, whilst this album is utterly harsh and agressive, it's pitty that a song like "Godbeater" ruins the effect a bit. A completely instrumental song without climax and -oh dear- lasts more then ten minutes! I don't know why they would do such a thing, 'cause on their demo they had for example "Suicide Anthem" which would've been a perfect last song for their album. "Devoured by Flames" is without any doubt my favorite number of the cd, 'cause of the catchyness and also huge Arch Enemy's "Wages of Sin" atmosphere.

This is another extremely fine debut of 2007. Let us hope it gets the attention it deserves, and who knows, maybe in some years this band will play on every big metalfest in Europe!

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