Now THIS is an album. St. Louis blackened thrash metallers Black Fast bring the riffs thick and heavy. And these riffs are good. Face-destroyingly, ass-rapingly good. Everything is right where it needs to be: the drums are straightforward and effective, the bass high up in the mix and following the guitars with gusto. Funnily enough, I don't think I heard a single ride cymbal played on this album? The pace is almost uniformly blistering, but it never gets boring; just when you think the band has exhausted their repertoire of riffs, they break out another one. Standouts include 'The Coming Swarm' for dialing back the pace just a bit toward the end and letting the band breathe a little, and 'Haunted Vigil' for catching me off guard by fucking with the time signature, but every single track on this album is more than solid.
This album has so much of what I love about metal music: it's satisfyingly cathartic, never boring, doesn't seem to take itself too terribly seriously, and is just good not-so-clean fun the whole way through. A definite contender for my album of the year, and I have no idea why more people are not talking about this. Seriously, if anybody is reading this, listen to this shit.
And buy it!
5 CONSUMING THEIR EYESSSSSS out of 5
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