Slaughter Messiah
Black Speed Terror 

Demonhood Records 2013

With their debut 7" Belgian black thrash insurgents, Slaughter Messiah, have declared war on all followers of the white light.  This three song metal assault lays waste to posers, pretenders and Xtians alike.  Up first is the hellish buzzsaw mayhem of the title-track.  Slayer-esque riffs are sewn together with early Teutonic steel for a black thrash holocaust.  Relentless drum blasts and scathing vocals accompany riffs that turn on a dime while blasting away your spirituality.  Death metal passages surge to the forefront as the song progresses and I can detect hints of Unanimated within their folds.  A killer solo whips your eardrums with lashes of fire before returning to more demonic thrash melee.  My favorite track is Demon.  It's catchy main riffs rhythmically wash over you like a wave of magma.  Knives of falsetto vocals pierce the darkness while violent combinations of drums and guitar flay your skin.  The final track, Cosmic Funeral (The Great Old Ones) sets the mood with eerie synth only to get completely obliterated by intense blasts of drumming speed and aggressively churning riffs.  The song breaks into a short period of amorphous atmosphere, long enough for a moody spoken-word segment.  The deathly attack continues with drums that continuously stab at you with their sharp snares.  The riffs swirl at hyper speeds that blur the line between black and thrash metal.  Lyrics that reference the Cthulu mythos a belted out like a hateful ritualistic chant.  Slaughter Messiah have definitely grabbed my attention and are ferociously ripping through my speakers with their black thrash destruction.  This 7" will slice and shred you with its aggression.  You have been forewarned.