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░ ██ ██ Artist: Blindeath ██ ██
▓ █░░ ■█ Album: Into the Slaughter █■ ░░█
■ █▓▀ █ Year: 2014 █ ▀▓█ ░
█ ▓ Rel. Date: 2015-03-20 ▓ █
▒ ▒ Genre: Thrash Metal ▒ ▒
█▄ ░ Label: Earthquake Terror Noise ░ ▄█
░ █▄ ░ Source: CD ░ ▄█
░ █▓ Type: Album ▓█ ░
▓ █ Quality: VBR, 44.1kHz, Joint Stereo █ ░ ▓
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█ To the best of my knowledge, IÆd never heard a █
█ single note from a single Italian metal band until █
█ I listened to Into the Slaughter, the debut █
█ full-length from Milan thrash metal merchants █
█ Blindeath. All I really know about Italy is what █
█ IÆve learned from history classes and from movies, █
█ but I do know that Italians have a reputation for █
█ being passionate, and passion is one thing that █
█ Into the Slaughter has in spades. █
█ Blindeath wear their influences proudly on their █
█ collective sleeve, and to this listener they serve █
█ as a perfectly sturdy bridge between the dirtier, █
█ grittier bands from the New Wave of British Heavy █
█ Metal, and the New Wave of Thrash Metal. Traces of █
█ both Venom and Mot÷rhead permeate the vocals, █
█ which at times also invokes thoughts of 1990Æs-era █
█ Killing Joke, newer Voivod, and on one song █
█ (ôRebels Die Hardö), even grindcore pioneers █
█ Terrorizer. The guitar work is excellent █
█ throughout (both the riffing and the super-melodic █
█ soloing), and the drums and bass form a nearly █
█ impenetrable bottom line, and the whole of the █
█ music makes it hard to remain seated, but it will █
█ make you run faster on a treadmill. █
█ The one-minute-and-forty-two-second long █
█ instrumental interlude ô2977ö provides a nice █
█ respite between the (relatively) slow burn of █
█ ôArcadiaö (the two songs are inspired by Space █
█ Pirate Captain Harlock, a Japanese manga and █
█ animated series set in the year 2977) and the █
█ rip-roaring, devastating blast of the █
█ aforementioned ôRebels Die Hardö. ôMoshing Maniaxö █
█ and ôWelcome to the Thrash Partyö are both pretty █
█ self-explanatory, and as one might expect, both █
█ are absolute scorchers. █
█ The comic book-inspired cover art by the █
█ super-talented Francesca Follini combines just the █
█ right amount of metal, politics, and sleaze, and █
█ provides the potential listener with a pretty good █
█ idea of the sounds contained within. In all, this █
█ is a very solid album, and I expect Blindeath have █
█ some pretty great things in store for the world. █
█ I, for one, am very much looking forward to █
█ hearing those things. █
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█ Standout tracks: ôBlood and Gutsö, ôRebels Die █
█ Hardö, ôWelcome to the Thrash Partyö █
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░ 1. Blood and Guts 3:19 ░
░ 2. Murdered by the Beast 4:27 ░
░ 3. Toxic War 2:40 ░
░ 4. Moshing Maniax 2:54 ░
░ 5. Arcadia 4:09 ░
░ 6. 2977 1:41 ░
░ 7. Rebels Die Hard 3:57 ░
░ 8. Welcome to the Thrash Party 2:50 ░
░ 9. Feast of Blood 6:17 ░
░ 32:14 ░
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