Oooh more bay area thrash! This time it’s Heathen, who’ve been melting faces from 1984 to 1993, then 2001 until the end of time. They peddle in themes of Society, Politics, Religion, Death, and Dying Season is no different. But don’t get them confused with other Heathen bands from Pennsylvania and San Gabriel, who are both also metal bands. I bet if you pick a name like Heathen for your band, you’re kind of pigeon holed into a sound. Imagine a barbershop quartet going by Heathen. It’d be quite a shock.

The song starts with a kind of sitar-esque melody before diving headlong into dueling guitarmonies and big bombastic drums. The vocals have a good edge to them, and fit into the mix well. Which makes sense, this song may be 15 years old, but the band’s been around forever. Dueling guitar solos show off both of the guitarists’ chops about 2/3 of the way through the song, with another to close out the track. Very sweepy, very shreddy. 6 minutes of thrash is pretty good, and the song doesn’t seem to drag too hard or anything.

The video cuts between the band and a kinda cheesy look of a war movie perhaps with zombie soldiers. General zombie stopper looks like a bald MacArthur, sending soldiers off to battle. These poor guys get shredded by a bunker full of big machine guns, only to climb out of the earth a little later. And the one guy who manages to survive ends up meeting the zombies at the end. Poor guy! That would be a horrible fate, getting turned into a zombie soldier. I’d rather turn into a zombie professor, at zombie university. Or maybe zombie state, they’re less hifalutin there.