Abominable Triumph of Heresy

Thorns of Hate are just pure Malaysian hell! Well, as much as most of the Asian bands turn out to be rather crap, speaking of their musical values, here’s one band that may cause some serious damage in your places of living. Thorns of Hate already has an ep released by Blood Harvest Records, but here’s their debut demo of 2010 which Kampf Records re-released on tape. To be honest, I think this is, together with Impiety and Surrender Of Divinity, the best band from this region of the world. First of all, finally there’s a band that has a decent production on their demo. OK, it may still be raw and obscure as hell, but it’s equally powerful and devastating.

Musically, Thorns of Hate perform some of the most barbaric black/death metal, so think of Bestial Warlust, Blasphemy, Sarcofago, Bestial Raids, and Revenge and you’re in the right hell. I really like what these Malaysian bastards are doing as they have great and destructive riffs, vomiting, powerful vocals, and manage to make all the instruments audible, which is not always a priority for these kinds of bands. But Thorns of Hate is really great. They’re often fast as hell, but the title track has also a brilliant doomy fragment in the end, which would put Encoffination in envy. Anyway, I strongly recommend you getting this tape, but it’s been limited to 200 copies only, which is just too small a number for such excellent metal devastation, so be quick!