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Friday Morning Metal – Vindicator – Thirst for Violence

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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.

Friday Morning Metal – Phantom – The Tower of Seth

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Coming from Guadalajara and ready to shred your face off, it’s Phantom! This is The Tower of Seth, off their album Tyrants of Wrath. That’s a good album title right there. Also I had a buddy in high school named Seth who was really tall. He’s not the subject of the song, despite being a towering fella. These guys play the kind of speed/thrash metal that would fit right in as opener for Anthrax or Metallica.

The song has a good chuggy intro, giving vibes of early Metallica or 3 Inches of Blood’s Metal Woman. The intro having separate channels for lead/rhythm guitar is pretty fun, makes it feel like you’re in the middle of the band. It’s too bad the vocals are tuned down so much in the mix. It does give the rest of the band an opportunity to shine, but it also makes it sound like the singer is way in the back like “HEY GUYS I’M HERE TOO.” Maybe they mistook the vocal track for bass. There’s a pretty killer solo leading up to the video’s climax, plenty chuggy and throwback-adjacent. All in all, a really solid speedy metal song.

The video takes place out in the woods. It’s fun to see the drumsticks kind of get that rubber pencil vibe while he’s playing, I haven’t seen that before in a video. The band is playing in a stream which can’t be too comfortable, but then it’s interspersed with some like druids walking by a water treatment plant and a guy in a cape. Our caped crusader seems to be on a mission to take out a black metal band, or the druids. Except the druids have magic and summon Celtic Frost to fight him. Sadly, despite being from the band Phantom, we don’t see any Ben Affleck nor Billy Zane, he’s a cool guy.

Friday Morning Metal – Game Over – Lust for Blood

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GAME OVER MAN! Here’s some thrash from Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna Italy. These guys have been shredding since 2008 and it’s only now that Bjørn thinks to share them with me. I guess he’s gotta hold back some or he’ll run out of good stuff. Regardless, these guys are pretty solid and thrashy. According to Encyclopaedia Metallum, their themes are horror movies and social issues.

The song is a single off their upcoming album Face the End, and kicks off with some bigass drums and chuggy guitar intros. There are some fun lyrical choices, like “Get busy living or get busy dead.” Dueling guitar solos with some back to back rocking is a great way to round out the song. In general, it’s a pretty kickass song with solid vocals that fit really well with everything else.

The video is split between performance and a dude in a pig mask chasing a metal lady. I think he has a lust for blood that backfires by the end. He does seem kinda creepy, but there’s also a fun bit where the pig guy gets a side ache. Reminded me of when I used that as a bit in a ResTek short like 20 some years ago. So thrash it up and chase down the creepy pig man!

Friday Morning Metal – Revocation – The Grip Tightens

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Happy goofy metal video day, this time by way of Revocation out of Boston. According to the internet, these guys are a technical death metal band, but this sounds like solid thrash for nearly five minutes!

The song is frenetic and badass, with some super driving drums. Definitely one of those songs that could lead to you driving a little too fast on the highway, or biking 30 mph for no dang reason. TWO SOLOS! We’re blessed with super shreddy noodlefests in this one. All together the song is crazy fast and super fun.

This is a fun video premise. They’re dressed up like wicked old dudes and are shredding at a senior center. The guitarist looks like he’s about to pass out when an orderly turns his oxygen up, just in time for a shred fest of a solo. The folks in the crowd really get into it too, it’s a hoot. It is a little funny that they’re done up to look like old folks when there are legit old folks touring in huge bands and doing the same while not looking like decrepit monkey skeletons.

Friday Morning Metal – Hazzerd – ThArSh ‘TiLl DeTh

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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 – Havok – Death is an Illusion

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Havok dropped an EP! New Havok! Can’t pass that up. Sidenote, whenever I have to really focus in on work stuff, like if a client’s decided that my work didn’t actually do anything, or a third party marketing firm has decided SEMRush estimates are more accurate than actual Search Console data, I’ll fire up Havok and use their big powerful thrash to help me put together proof that I’m right. It works like… 95% of the time.

Much like all the best thrash metal, the song starts off fast, keeps the pedal to the floor, and gets out quick. Three and a half minutes is almost a perfect amount of time to get to the point. The solo is shreddy and soaring and fan damn tastic, with some dueling guitarmonies in there for good measure. There’s a lot more bass in this than in previous Havok songs. You don’t normally hear bass-forward thrash, so hearing it riding through the song is a great addition.

The video is a lot of close ups and shot through water or something. Gives it a dreamy vibe that’s a contrast to frenetic pace of the song. So if you’re ready to get amped up, give it a spin!

The EP also features a cover of Metallica’s Eye of the Beholder, so today’s a double feature Friday Morning Metal! They’re pretty true to the original, though you can actually hear the bass. And Justice for Jason after all!

Friday Morning Metal – Jenner – Prove Them Wrong

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Jenner’s a three-piece, all-lady thrash band from Belgrade. I also thought Jenner was a company that made squirt guns or something, but I can’t find that on the internet so maybe it was Kenner and I’m having a Mandela Effect about Jenner being something that existed.

The song is a chuggafest, with some great hooks and a driving beat. I dig the vocals, just growly enough to fit the thrash vibe, but not so growly that it takes me out of it. There’s also a few really great solos, the kind of shreddy that melts great on tortilla chips.

The third guitar solo sounded dueling, but they’re a three-piece band so I don’t know where that extra guitar came from. Unless the bassist grabs a regular guitar and shreds for a bit. That would rule; not just a key change but an instrument change mid-song.

All in all it’s a tight song even at 5 minutes, so enjoy some fun Balkan thrash!

Friday Morning Metal – Insanity Alert – Moshemian Thrashody

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Who knew an Austrian thrash parody of Bohemian Rhapsody would shred this hard and be so goofy. I had not heard of these guys until a few weeks ago when Bjørn thought I should listen to another song of theirs, “Beerless Fiesta.” Which has a very familiar sax line in it.

The plinky plunky intro is pretty clever before kicking into balls out 110% thrash power. They manage to keep all the themes to the song intact, but true to thrash form they shrink a 6-minute song to a speedy 3:43. And I don’t think they cut anything out? They probably did. Don’t hold me to that.

The video itself is an awesome double homage to Queen and Wayne’s World. Kinda hoping I can get one of those “Insane’s World” t-shirts.

So enjoy this very very fast very very fun song!

Friday Morning Metal – Demolition Hammer – Infectious Hospital Waste

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Yay old school thrash from NYC! Demolition Hammer got their start in 1986, and Infectious Hospital Waste sounds part and parcel of the mid-80s thrash boom.

The song comes swinging out of the gate, with frenetic drums and great chuggy guitars. The solo at the halfway point is properly noodly and closes with an uptick in tempo that would make for a great pit atmosphere, if you’re into that. I’d rather stand in the back far away from it, lost a pair of horn rims getting too close and I don’t want to lose another.

The closing solo is pretty great, adding a second solo increases a song’s awesomeness by 45%. I read that in Heavy Metal Quarterly.

Anyway, go put on your denim vest, fingerless gloves, and enjoy some thrash!

Friday Morning Metal – Dust Bolt – Soul Erazor

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THRASH! Angry Metal Guy doesn’t seem to enjoy all the thrash, or one reviewer does and the other doesn’t. But Dust Bolt’s Soul Erazor is fantastic thrash that reminds me to find my denim vest and camouflage cargo shorts. The guitar work has all the noodly and chuggy and thrashy goodness that is part of a daily breakfast, and the dueling harmony guitar solo toward the end just screams 1987.

Anyway, don’t take my word for it, check it out!