Reviews
2006-01-29
Raw, evil sounding, hateful, these are some of the superlatives that can be used in connection with Chile's Ammit, the band, that's been active since the early 90's, has managed to capture the feeling of early 80's German thrash in the vein of early Sodom and Kreator, with large amounts of Celtic Frost and Bathroy thrown in for good measure.
Still, this is a purely love or hate album, its dirty, under produced, primitive and …dirty, if I would really wanted to describe it I would say it sounds like some of the south American demo cassettes I got swapping with people in the early 90's, and that's actually logical since the band started out doing exactly that, with their Return Of The Wizards demo cassette, way back in 92'.
There's no real diversity here, the band members, headed by Czar Yang, their vocalist, just spew forth one barrage of noise and violence after the other, this will appeal to old-school black metal fans, the genre which this is probably most reminiscent off, and early German thrash fans, since this has the amount of speed and barbarism that genre used to contain.
The one surprise here is an absolutely Manic sounding cover version of Accept's Fast As A Shark, which sends the original, already probably one of Accept's rawest sounding track, reeling bleeding and screaming into Thrash metal's abyss.
Not for the faint-hearted, this is one extreme MF.
Alon Miasnikov
