2014 saw the mad flying Finns return with their second album, following on from ‘Fast Loud Death’ which came out the previous year. In my review of that album I said, “If you want something that allows you to lose the dandruff, that combines passion and polish with power and raw naivety then this will be of interest,” and to be honest not much has changed. This is good old fashioned thrash that sounds as if it has come straight of the Eighties Bay Area, but with a modern sounding production. Both guitarists can really play, and they have plenty of aggression and punch which means that the listener tends to forgive them for playing at warp factor 9 for the whole album.
The difference between this and some of the other thrash albums around is that these guys have decided that if it ain’t broke don’t fix it, so no new modern sub genres being brought to play, but rather taken Raven and Megadeth and mix it with some hardcore punk attitude, plug in, and see you at the end. This is thrash, nothing less, and just possibly a whole lot more. These guys may only be doing one thing, but they do it incredibly well indeed.
