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Suicide Black Snake
This is a band I've just come across on Spotify, and whom I know absolutely nothing about. What I do know is that they play a heavy form of thrash with grind and hardcore elements, and they may just be the first thrash band I've heard that don't sound like shit (yes, that includes Metallica). Their punk influence stops them ending up sounding as ridiculous and self-parodic as Metallica (seriously, fuck those guys) or Megadeath, or any other thrash band you care to name, but they are very definitely a metal band, which is good, because it means they have the distorted vocals, low-end heavyness and guitar solos that make metal great. And those guitar solos are fucking good - occasionally, they may slip over into over-technical wank, but those moments are rare. For the most part, the lead guitarist plays peircing shrieks that add that extra something that turns a decent band into a really good one. Indeed, it's the lead guitarist that really makes this band - without him, they'd be your standard I-hate-everything-for-some-reason metal band (albeit with some damn fine riffs), but with him, they're a force to be reckoned with.
There are some parts of the album where the band really let themselves down - the slow/fast changeovers in second track I Know Where Everyone Lives are pretty messy (not in a good way) and the overlong teenage whine There Ain't No Living In Life is a definite low point - but mostly this album is a blistering peice of heavy-as-balls metal. If the changeover from noisy, industrial sound peice to pummelling thrash on Detonate Vvorlds Plague doesn't get your heart racing as effectlively as any defibrillator, you may well be dead.
Rating: 7/10
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