ANGREPP
Warfare
Abyss
7 / 10 Track listing:
01. Intro
02. Five Horned Formation
03. Legions Arise
04. Dead and Destroyed
05. Warfare
06. Fiende
07. Rape, Kill, Rock 'n Roll
08. Firebrand
09. For Now I Have Seen
10. Victor
In our attempts to make things all highbrow and literary around here, we rarely fall back on that moth-eaten metal review staple known as The If. You know what I'm talking about: "if BAND A stole BAND B's lunch money at Famous Metal Guy's house while BAND C videotaped the whole thing with their pants around their ankles, you'd have BAND D!!!!" It's about as useful as playing that old "Mad Libs" fill-in-the-blank game, but ya gotta admit, sometimes it works.
How about we try it on ANGREPP? Here goes: "if JUNGLE ROT became a DISCHARGE cover band while DARKTHRONE practiced in the next room!!" You know, that might just nail it. ANGREPP are stupid-simple, with beats so obvious a drum machine's input is suspected, and their riffs are pure 80's thrash punk, with little black metal flourishes here and there (see the 2:50 or so mark in "Legions Arise" for a nice one). Some nice melodic guitar hooks, like the recurring line in "Dead and Destroyed", save things from monotony, and add a little bit of trad-metal class to what could otherwise become a numbing, bare-bones affair.
Nothing here is innovative, or even all that fresh, but it's a simple, charismatic sound, with lots of head-down chug and simple thrashin' abandon — "good friendly violent fun", you might say. It's not real cerebral, nor is it supposed to be, so throw it on, throw your fist in the air, and get your fix of thrash rolled in the decaying shards of the "death and roll" movement.
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