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Friday Morning Metal – Hazzerd – ThArSh ‘TiLl DeTh

More tharsh! More crazy fast metal from those wild guys in Hazzerd. According to their youtube description, this is the silly song. Despite it being “silly,” it’s still a kickass shred fest perfect for the times you’re breaking a microwave because it keeps wrecking your frozen burritos.

The song kicks off with some killer shredding before the rest of the band jumps in to get it going. True to thrash form, it’s frenetic, chuggy, and a blast! I think I mentioned it last time I covered Hazzerd, but it’s wild the drummer is lead vocals. I’d imagine he’d get tired drumming, but adding singing on top of it? Madness! The guitar solo, with the distortion they use or more finger picking or something, it gives off a twangy country-esque vibe. Pretty fun to hear.

The video itself is pretty goofy, with the guitarist following a dude around and being generally weird. Also the bassist teabags the camera after they beat it up, Office Space style. Can’t pass that up. It also seemingly ties into microwave destruction at the end! More music videos need appliance destruction, it’s just fun to watch. So enjoy some tharsh!

Friday Morning Metal – Hazzerd – Waking Nightmare

More thrash! More fellas who look and sound like they time traveled from 1985, ready to shred! Hailing from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Hazzerd’s a great throwback shredfest of thrash metal. Also whenever I read any city, province, country combo for anywhere in Canada, in my mind I hear it in Lilián Garcia’s voice.

The song starts off slow and melodic, transitions to a peppier chug, before going balls out for the remaining four minutes or so. It’s like warming up for a sprint or something. The noodly guitar melody is pretty great, a little classical, a lot of fun. You also don’t often see the drummer singing, so that’s pretty great, and the vocals are a great fit for the genre.

The video is a solid combo of “band in a tiny room full of stacks” and “dude going insane.” It was a little weird seeing the guitarists standing so close to the drummer, and then standing real still for the intro, but once it kicked in they were moving a bit more. Felt like they were sidling. Sidling’s unnerving. Don’t sidle.