Dekapitator - Storm Before The Calm
March 24 2008 at 06:53:02 AM
Matt Harvey and company returns with a new record, superior to their first, which offers nothing “new,” but it’s just as tempting to add that nothing more is required. Admittedly, now and then it’s still refreshing to hear Thrash Metal from people actually alive during the genre’s heyday (or close enough to it). Although all is pretty much said and done by way of the apocalyptic and nearly perfect title-track, Dekapitator rolls through seven more delinquent marches of spongy guitars (similar to, but not nearly as overdone as the latest Exodus record), dual harmonies and Harvey’s mangled howls breaking above the din of these shock-wave anthems. A light-hearted, proggy sort of instrumental (“Eye of The Storm”) opens the album’s second half, but primarily, this disc is all air raids and squealing guitar leads. No better time than the present.
[Todd DePalma]
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