Warbringer live up to their name with the
newest outing “Woe to the Vanquished”. If you’ve ever wanted to experience the
true horror of war and get sucked into a mosh pit at the same time, this might
just be the album for you, right from the get go you have “Silhouettes” which
is a pretty standard paced song that outlining the absolute terror of nuclear
warfare. A song to break your neck and definitely get any crowd ready for
whatever you could play next. The title track, “Woe to the Vanquished” follows
and this is a song of sheer speed. Guaranteed to start a pit wherever you are,
if you have speakers with you and turn this song it’ll turn the most docile
place into the most epic wall of death you’ve ever seen.
There’s a couple outliers that need to be
pointed out, “Spectral Asylum” is a slow paced banger. Live this song probably
won’t produce much of a pit outside of those few guys who walk in circles and
push each other, what it will do however is get every single head in every
venue hanging. The solo in this song also stands out the most because it’s the
most out of nowhere, the song builds up to it a little bit but it takes until
it’s basically in your ears for you to predict that it’s coming.
The most stand out song on the album though
is “Shellfire”. Fast paced and the purest form of Thrash is the only way I can
think to explain it. Warbringer use everything they can at their disposal in
this track and actually manage to create the sounds of war and, of course, the
horror of Shellfire. “Shellfire” stands out specifically because following the “incoming”
section, you’ll learn who your real metal friends are, anyone not headbanging
to this perfectly paced Thrash monster of a riff just doesn’t need to be in
your life, you don’t need that kind of negativity.
What else is there to say? This is easily
one of the strongest albums I’ve heard so far this year and all around one of
the best Thrash Metal albums to be released in the past 20 years. Pick up
Warbringer’s “Woe to the Vanquished” because if you don’t you’ll have a void in
your life that will never be filled by any other Thrash album.
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