2007-01-09
There's nothing to subtle about Germanic thrashers Fatal Embrace, these guys started out in 1993 as Nosferatu, and musically, I cant say they changed that much, these guys are old school, and proud of it.
Whether you'll enjoy this, the band's third full length release, depends on your affinity to oldschool thrashers of the fastest kind, I'm talking
Venom interlaced with early
Kreator and
Sodom, with a sprinkle of
Assassin and
Necronomicon on top, these are fucking brutal, impossibly fast, and unflinchingly retro, this is straight out of the 80's, and if you don’t like it, they'll probably shoot you with one of the many bullets they hold in their belts. Nice, they a'int.
The album has one speed 90% of its running time- Breakneck speed. From the opener "Born In Blasphemy" to the third track, it's all fast as hell thrash with extremely raw vocals that sound like a nastier version of
Destruction's. "Don't Sacrifice My Soul" throws in a bit more diversity, cleaner guitar passages and a slower tempo, this is closer in atmosphere to black metal and it works well for the band.
The guys push the peddle again through out the album until track 8 again slows things down a bit again, with some of the tracks, such as the short and fast "Storming In My Mind" being some of the most extreme thrash around.
Definitely not for all tastes, this will appeal to fans of extreme and blackened thrash only, oldschool fanatics included, it's good for its genre, but any gentle should stir away or find themselves ripped and devoured by these guys.
Alon Miasnikov
