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artist: Verdalack
title: Force from the Grave
year: 2025
genre: Thrash Metal
type: Album
label: Hells Headbangers
language: English
rel. date: 2025-07-25
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Full Stereo
runtime: 00:29:29
size: 74.27 MB
rip date: 2025-07-25
source url: https://www.deezer.com/album/785087411
tracklist:
1. Axehead 3:36
2. Heretic Flights 3:09
3. Desecrater 3:19
4. Blood Eagle 3:57
5. Final Assault 4:21
6. Force from the Grave 4:47
7. Into the Flames 2:57
8. Rites of Hell 3:23
release notes:
HELLS HEADBANGERS is proud to present VERDALACK's highly anticipated
debut album, Force From the Grave.
Hailing from Tokyo, VERDALACK's roots go back to the preceding band
Assault Attack, which included guitarists Vortex and Vandal and vocalist
Villain. As Assault Attack, the trio played thrash metal until
disbanding in 2018. Under the direction of Vortex, the band restarted in
2022 and changed their moniker to VERDALACK and stylistically converted
to speed metal. A two-song demo tape was released in 2022, showing that
VERDALACK were good on their word: new / huge influences ranged from mid
'80s speed metal, ancient US power metal, and classic Japanese
hardcore-punk. With their expanded lineup consisting of members from
Significant Point, Military Shadow, Bafomet, Disgunder, and Another
Dimension, it can be said a newborn devil has arisen from incest within
the modern Japanese underground metal scene.
Now, VERDALACK are prepared to take over the underground with violence
and force: enter Force From the Grave, their full-length debut.
Comprising eight hard-charging songs across a fun & frantic half-hour,
Force From the Grave approximates its namesake through a laser-focused
mindset and soundfield. All stylistic nuances of idiomatic speed metal
are covered and then taken to overdriven, totally OTT levels - an
idiosyncratic quirk of Japanese musicians when it comes to
otherwise-Western music - much in the way that the cult Tokyo Yankees
did with their own debut album, 1991's classic Do the Dirty. As such,
the album soon nods to Japan's legendary Burning Spirits scene in its
synthesis of teeth-gnashing intensity laced with extremely impeccable
chops; just witness the myriad melodic leads across Force From the Grave
and how crucial (and contagious) each one is. But, songwriting rules
supreme with VERDALACK, and the quintet put those chops in service of
locomotive propulsion that's anthemic and interesting in equal measure.
That the record features a production that's got the right balance of
grit and gleam only makes Force From the Grave that much more
refreshing.
Classics-minded but exuding an authentically fresh approach, VERDALACK's
Force From the Grave will throttle maniacs of Jag Panzer to Japan's
Bastard, Exciter to GISM, and Piledriver to Deathside. The Tokyo Speed
Metal Forces are on the attack!