Wednesday 4 June 2008

At War - Ordered To Kill (1985)


Quality basement thrash from the US that brings to mind the bewitching talents of the UK's Venom, really symbolising that dark chamber that once harboured so many vile thrash sounds back in the day. The title cut is a cracker, half-Slayer, half-Venom with a vibrating bass and the guttural vocal attack, a proper clanking machine on the warpath. The album includes a decent cover of the Motorhead track 'The Hammer', and although the record only runs for thirty minutes there's plenty for the old school thrasher as the band dig deep into the soil to open their can of worms.

6.5/10

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