Violence

After five or six years of splits, demos, and even a compilation, this German band is finally getting their debut album released on Dying Victims Productions, and it's a thrashing good time that was worth the trouble. Definitely a band that exists to mine that early sound where Thrash was being born with albums like In The Sign of Evil, Show No Mercy, or Endless Pain—before there were hard and fast genre boundaries. You'd expect this to be all flailing riffs and evil attitude, and that's pretty much spot-on. The guitar sound could stand some more starch in it, and this just lacks that killer bit of over-the-top energy, but it's fun.