The Wild Stream of Eternal Sin

Terror Squad - another Japanese band that manages to impress. I'm becoming increasingly enamored with Japanese metal.

This is no-bullshit, death tinged thrash with some pleasantly unique and quirky guitar work.

Artillery fans will probably be inclined, like myself, to believe the band took their name from Artillery's Terror Squad album. This argument might be corroborated by the fact that the band sounds like Artillery doing death/thrash in fast motion.

At 28 minutes, with only 7 tracks, there is little time for this album to fuck around. The drumming is very fast, tight, fairly rhythmic (considering it's thrash especially) and even complex at times. Guitar melodies and solos fly out of no where at 666 mph, and are just all the sweeter because of the choas they emerge from. Pure unbridled metalness oozes from relentless, at times complex rhythm guitar, quirky, chromatic leads, moments of sweet melody, pinch harmonics, and simply fuckin' killer thrash/death riffage.

The only thing I could possibly compare the riffs to is the more technical end of Destruction, or Artillery ... though that hardly does justice to most of the music.

Low and high screams trade on and off at high speeds. The bass can be found in the production as well. The production over all is pretty much spot on. I really have no complaints about this album.

In many ways, this is one of the best thrash albums I've ever heard. Intense, technical, catchy, melodic, unique - what more could you want?

This is one of those albums that's so metal it just makes you want to shatter objects with your head and use the pile driver on hippies while on a concrete surface. This album is so metal that it will make your ears bleed, turn you blood to ice, and transform all your attire into leather, spikes and bulletbelts. Get it, now!