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Far from the usual Napalm Records fare, this debut from Edmonton’s MORTILLERY looks set to deliver raging thrash, and, yup, that it does. But here’s the rub, and for old dudes it’s a very delightful rub: the vocals are full-on air-raid siren, like, beyond Bruce and towards Russ, if you follow me. And if you do, great, read on: this band is definitely rooted in old-school thrash, but there’s enough mid-tempo melodies here to bring back lots of pleasant ’80’s flashbacks, enough trad leanings to think of some great forgotten second-tier band that shoulda been and coulda been (the guitar solo on the amazingly titled ‘Despised By Blood’ alone is worth the price of admission here). But this is mainly more thrashback than flashback, full speed ahead, take the gallop and run, past the piles of silverfish-infested VIO-LENCE LPs, right into some kinda glorious alternate reality where shit like this really, really matters, where it matters as much as it does to the dudes in Mortillery. Listening to this, you can tell this stuff really does matter to them, which is why they matter to us.

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