Here I review the new EP from Australian Black-Thrash Metallions BLOODLUST! Featuring 4 brand new records, 3 originals and 1 Slayer cover. The EP is out now!
Opening with roaring raw guitar riffs and a built in drum performance accompanied by howling screams over melodic sways and thunderous bass, the band have an immediately old school feel that rips through layers of cavernously intense thrashing blackened maniacal hell. Whiplash riffing and upbeat blasting drum assaults back up the ferocious onslaught of vocal mayhem. Blistering shreds and searing rhythms keep you on your toes for this macabre inferno of classic Black-Speed Metal. Firing through more tearing melodics and thrashing grinds that keep fulfilling the speedy desires with upbeat and unrelenting musicianship that has such a beautifully crushing sound in the vein of Nocturnal Graves, Bastardizer or Extirpation that is just fantastic. With catchy vocal assaults over the monstrous momentum of blastbeats and riff attacks, there is an anthemic value to the barrage of extremity. The final original song comes in with NWOBHM style melodically fun riffs before that thrashing grooves take us down one more tormenting path of hellish blackened thrash morbidity. Hammering drum attacks and skull shaking guitars with howling vocals offer up one totally intense and wonderful orchestrated track that rips you apart with its piercing cascade of true Speed Metal warfare and shredding axe madness. To close, a cover of Slayer’s “Fight Till Death”, certainly a song the band could do something unique with. The eerie thrashing guitars start things off before an upbeat onslaught of Slayer riffs with a blackened vocal approach and menacing blastbeats snap into place. The band keep the original songs sound intact while giving it a revitalised approach that vanquishes all in its path and closes the EP with a gorgeously refreshed classic, tainted with the bands occult Speed Metal sound. Overall this EP was some devastatingly awesome Black/Speed/Thrash Metal with a classic feel to it, plenty of bite, a nice production style and an inferno of energy. I will certainly be keeping an eye on these Australian lunatics for more extremity to come in the future! -8.5/10
Discover more from NATTSKOG
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.