Vindicator Vindicator! Vindicator! Vindicator! They’ve got a new album coming out, and this is one of the tracks from said album! WHOAH OH OH, THIRST FOR VIOLENCE! These guys have been melting faces since 2005 and are not to be confused with Glen Burnie, Maryland’s Vindicator. Nor Northern California’s Vindicator. And definitely not Vyndykator from Jersey City, New Jersey. Maybe they don’t teach spelling in Jersey City. Who am I to judge.

True to form the song is frenetic and kicks you in the rocks from the get go. The vocals are a bit growlier than I remember, a bit more like Darkthrone, which is interesting and fits over the rest of the band well. They have a couple bits early on where there’s maybe heavy guitar syncopation and it causes an interesting sense of unease, at least for me. It wasn’t something I was expecting in the song, and I remember a professor teaching pop music history saying that’s important. So they did the important thing! The solo around the halfway point is quick but noodly and dueling and very fun. And then ANOTHER very noodly double solo! At 6 and a half minutes long, it does feel like it could be truncated or segmented. But what would thrash metal be without 6+ minute long shred fests. I guess it’d be speed metal.

The video is an “Official Visualizer” which I guess means the song is on top of stock footage of wars and stuff. Plus some wolves fighting over what appears to be a dead rabbit. If your music is fast and aggressive, I guess that’s what the visualization of it would be. Oooh and a big fat snake! Personally I would’ve liked to see some session or live footage interspersed with the visualizer but that probably is difficult to do. At least it wasn’t AI slop, am I right?

Oh also here’s why I said Vindicator so much.