Italian Black-Speed Metal horde BUNKER 66 are back with their 4th full length album of high-speed ferocity. Out via Dying Victims Production on April 30th.
Jumping right into a cascade of crashing cymbals and melodic guitars before thundering bass cuts the mix, this energetic attack wastes no time in delivering old school Heavy Metal carnage with no introduction necessary. The blistering speed of the riffs and drums soon descends into an anarchic display of barbarity with manically howled vocals completing the compelling onslaught, with a dark and old school mix that perfectly captures the thrashing violence. Clean sung vocals add a glorious NWOBHM feel to the morbid artillery without detracting from the extremity at all, judging from the beginning, this is going to be a terrific record. Blending anthemic Heavy Metal with the darkness of a blackened edge, all through a huge helping of old school Speed Metal savagery, Bunker 66 have an infectious and upbeat approach to their brand of bastardising riffage that make it impossible not to be taken into the tundra of headbanger-fuelled mayhem.
Hammering onwards, the iron-forged Metal mania offers towering drums, razor-sharp riffs and bestial vocals in abundance, always staying in the fast lane with crushing, demonic and visceral grooves that snarl with the charm of the late 80s Extreme Metal emergence, coated in a slick of tasteful primality. The musical tightness in the soloing is pure ecstasy, especially when coupled with the frantic frenzy of the rhythm sections, always keeping us on our toes with a brutal barrage of speeding insanity. Howling into the abyss, the sheer animalistic energy of the vocals could not be better suited to the ruthless instrumental battery, something fans of truly intense butchery will certainly adore. It seems the Speed Metal wheel will not slow down, grinding all weaklings in their path as Bunker 66 decimate anything they come into contact with. This incendiary soundscape of ludicrously Metal vitriol will not take any prisoners, that is for certain.
As the album marches on through battlefields of flaming carcasses left in their wake, the band clearly have no intent on delivering anything short of maniacally in-your-face Black-Speed glory, something I am certainly grateful for. With all of the vicious and rabid energy these hordes can summon, the album offers nothing short of killer material from start to end. Though maybe not reinventing the wheel or even straying from the path, who cares when it is a pathway to such magnificently annihilating music.Launch yourself head-first into this massive onslaught of bestial rampages and behold the ravenous aggression of Bunker 66’s latest offering as until its final moments, this action-packed slice of steel does not waver in its deliverance of blasphemous brutality. A truly brilliant piece of work.
If you seek blistering Speed/Black/Thrash savagery of epic proportions, coated in a thick layer of NWOBHM and Punk influence, look no further as this new slice of barbarity from Bunker 66 is as relentless and ruthless as ever. Pure maniac Heavy Metal from the Italian underground that deserves the attention of all headbanging maniacs far and wide.
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this is right up my alley looks like old school venom hellhammer bathory early Celtic frost early kreator early Sodom early early sepultura old school possessed with early motorhead and early exciter with early Canadian thrash metal legends sacrifice and razor and Italy,s bulldozer and early sarcofago and the first destruction mini album seen these guys advertised in iron fist magazine back in 2014 but never actually listened to bunker 66 before so this will be a good one to check out and listen to .