The leading dominators in
Blackened Thrash Metal are back with their new album on Season of Mist, Destroyer
666 and their new album “Wildfire”
have been spreading like... well, a wildfire. Being the bands first full release
since 2009 it’s a breath of fresh air to get something like this in the genre,
taking over what Sodom stopped going
for and doing it just as well if not better! 9 songs and 40 minutes of
headbanging brutality, an incredible onslaught of destructive riffs and a
consistent shock in vocal prowess the band brings their all on this album, but
is their all enough?
Destroyer 666 are back and in case you were unsure of that, right off the
bat in “Traitor” you get introduced
by an insanely high scream that could almost put modern Rob Halford to shame, mixed with the riffing harmony being Warslut and Felipe Kutzbach. If the speeds of these riffs weren’t enough and
you have a problem headbanging to solos then just wait till the last 60
seconds, the song enters a riff that you have to headbang to that leads into a
solo. “Live and Burn” follows up “Traitor” sounding like a cross between Destruction and Toxic Holocaust between having Destruction
style tempo in the introduction blended with Black Metal-era Joel Grind (I know he never ACTUALLY
did Black Metal, calm down there I see you typing to tell me how I’m wrong
about Toxic Holocaust being Black
Metal). The speed of this song is off the charts, between that and it being
heavy this song would be excellent live as a pit song. With the next song “Artiglio Del Diavolo” being an
instrumental how about we skip ahead a couple to “Wildfire” the title track of the album and see how it stands up
being a bit later in the album. Warslut‘s
vocals are less harsh on this song, taking more of a Speed Metal turn, which
makes sense with the galloping style of riffing, featuring one of my favourite
solos on this entire album which is followed by a heavy bridge into a straight
speed solo before getting back to vocals. The song is sheer speed, the album is
fast as fuck and unrelenting, and the contrast in the vocals between sounding like a Black
Metal lunatic and Tom Araya at the
beginning of “Angel of Death” makes
a lot of these songs unpredictable which a lot of bands fail to do. The only
real break you get in this album is right before the album resets with “Tamam
Shud” being an incredible album closer and the song I see being played in the
background as the band walks out on stage an bows goodbye to the crowd, it’s
slower, mostly, it’s intriguing and the guitar patters are really cool even to
someone who couldn’t play “Smoke on the Water” to save their life.
7 years
later Destroyer 666 release “Wildfire,” an album that will, more
than likely, stand tall to every other album released this year. With this
album it’s becoming apparent that this year will be the year of Mist, releasing
plenty of excellent albums already this year Destroyer 666 are just another notch up for the global domination Season of Mist must be planning at this
point.
95/100
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