Dead To This World – First Strike for Spiritual Renewance
Recently I’ve been rummaging about trying to locate more great Black Thrash after the review of Azziard. Unfortunately my claws only gathered up one album from my collection. Fortunately though it was Dead To This World. Iscariah’s quality example of how to do Black Thrash has tons of energy and grips you as soon as it starts. It’s way better than any of the new Imm……Oh yeah and I’m going to try and do the review without mentioning the I word!
They don’t fuck about, after a few cursory chords they open up with everything they’ve got and leave nothing behind. Dead To This World’s hand is shown after just a few seconds and you can sit back and get your head into some marvellous stampage with riffs that blow away hordes of golden era thrash. I’m serious. Virtually every riff on the album is packed full of pent up anger and they actually manage to purvey this – something which doesn’t happen very often.
Things blast off with ‘I, The Facilitator’ chainsawing through the speakers and slicing your ears off with scything riffage and heralding Iscariah’s superb rabid vocal style. Its short and sweet at under three minutes and leaves you eager for the next track. ‘Night of the Necromancer’ has some surprisingly technical guitaring side by side with punchy thrash riffs and variations in tempo.
In fact all the songs on the album are equally varied and will have you tapping your feet and head in appreciation. The mostly short songs are crowned by ‘Shadows of the Cross’; a perfectly vehement and bad-tempered anti-christian deluge of scorn and ‘Goatpower’; tumultuous violent pitch black thrash.
Following that ’1942′ and ‘Into the Light (Baphomet Rising)’ employ fast and catchy arrangements before the album grinds itself into oblivion with the seven minute long closing anthem ‘Hammer of the Gods’. The vocals, again, are spot on all the way through the album. You’ll hear snippets in the ranting about the exquisite dreams of heaven being ground into dust and piles of bodies as far as the eye can see.
The energy and power of the opening songs doesn’t abate and is evident right until the closing moments. Of the Black Thrash genre, Dead To This World is one of the very best and it’ll be interesting to see if they can equal or better this on their next offering. For now though you need to get hold of this and play it fucking loud because it represents pure quality in every aspect.
I admit I was more than a little sceptical when I got a request to review this Italian band. I wasn’t sure what to expect from a band that sounded more like some American gospel singers than satanic Black Metal! Thankfully after literally one second of listening my somewhat ridiculous assumptions were raped and pillaged [...]
I only recently discovered Rahu, who purvey original and very replayable Finish Black Metal of the highest calibre. This is a demo from 2008 that has since been released as part of a best of featuring this and their other demo on one CD. Although there are only three tracks delivering a mere seventeen minutes [...]
great find wafff!!!!!! one of the best black thrash ive heard…great vocals energetic riifs!