The Batlord

Protector: Misanthropy EP

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I know what I said about not doing a bunch of random thrash metal bands that I just happen not to have listened to yet, but I'm still in the mood for some brutal thrash and there are still random thrash metal bands that I just happen to have not listened to yet. I remember listening to some album by this band a while back and thinking that it was cool. They seem to have a number of albums rather than the usual one or two common to death/thrash, so I'm gonna see what happens when one of these bands (possibly) evolves.
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Oh hell yeah. Subtlety is as foreign to this band as any other band of their ilk. This was released in eighty-seven so it was a few years older than a lot of other brutal thrash metal bands and it shows. This seems like the halfway point between the aforereviewed Necrovore and Morbid Saint. High energy, high savagery and as far as I can tell low song writing. But who the fuck cares?

Those blasbeats are almost pushing this into death metal. Not quite though, since the guitar screams Kreator, not to mention the vocals (not surprising considering they were from Germany and this was released a year after Pleasure to Kill).

This EP isn't really noteworthy for any kind of innovation, but the sheer energy with which it is played makes it a minor gem that has pleased me these last...twenty-two minutes and forty-six seconds. Recommended for people who aren't Trollheart.

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