2005-12-14
Sometimes I find myself so buried up to my necks in albums and CDs from bands and labels that some drip through, I'm sure I wrote about them and I put them aside, and then suddenly notice that I didn’t, and an excellent (or awful) album is left forgotten.
Demolition's third album, Existence, is one of these, an old school thrash album, with some truly aggressive moments, that I actually really liked upon hearing, but somehow was lost among the growing mountains of CDs, luckily, I found it.
I'm always a sucker for thrash, its probably the fact that I grew up in the late 80's and early 90's listening to a steady diet of thrash bands, from the truly famous, such as Testaemnt and Megadeth, to the locally known, such as Vendetta and Assassin, to the almost obscure, such as Gammaside and Necronomicon, but the fact is I loved 99% percent of them.
Problem with most current thrash bands is they try to hard, and they usually get the vocals wrong, thrash vocals are supposed to sound like thrash vocals, and most bands use death metal growls instead, the thing that Demolition did right, is they actually nailed all the right elements with this album, it truly sounds like a classic German thrash album, think early Destruction, or Kreator, just with a really good sound.
The album is mostly fast and lethal, very reminiscent of Destruction most of the time, with the vocals doing just the right balance of scream and growl, without sounding like a death metal vocalist.
The album is Technical without sounding overly complex, and several of the tracks really hit it on the head, but the one track that takes the cake is the second one, Necromancer, just this one alone is worth the album's price tag alone, a thrash anthem if there ever was one.
What can I say, I need to keep up with the CDs I'm sent, missing this one would have been a crime.
Alon Miasnikov
