Blessed, rather oddly, with the same cover art as Morbid Angel's classic 'Blessed Are The Sick', Hexenhaus may not be as evil as Morbid Angel but they sure make a helluva thrash racket - and I dig it. The five piece hail from Sweden I believe and play a doomy, technical type of thrash, with heavy riffs, vicious vocals and clearly have some intelligence behind the noise. Think Coroner, Kreator, a bit of Celtic Frost et al, not hyper thrash, just quality, dense cacophony which reveals itself within a vast concept the band has created, as an ode to the witches who were burnt in Germany during the seventeenth century - the name Hexenhaus was a place in Germany said to have been inhabited by witches who dabbled with Satan. Great stuff. Musically 'A Tribute...' is tight, woven together by the riffage of Meister and Wead and solid drumming of Raideen. Favourite track on the album is the Bathory-esque 'Delirious' with its classic Venom type rattling and buzzing backbone. This is the sort of album thrashheads would have loved back in the day and would have felt that their hard earned cash - or pocket money, would have been well spent on such a consistent raging record. Hats off to this type of thrash, I could go back to it time and time again and experience the same highs I experienced back then. At times creepy, often bewitching, and always furious.
8/10
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