I rarely find Hells Headbangers releases in bargain bins and this showed up at a store that seldom has any kind of extreme metal, so I think I got a little too excited for this one. It's exactly how I feel about a lot of Hells Headbangers releases--solid but not great--and it was worth what I paid, but I can't help but feel a little disappointed. Maybe the Ghoul and Venom patches combined with all the other circumstances inflated my expectations.
This is a black/thrash with some punkiness mixed in. The ingredients for something I should probably like more are here (the vocals remind me quite a bit of Nifelheim), and while there are some cool parts (the title track is what I wish the whole album was more like), a lot of the songs kind of settle into a formulaic rut (usually mid-tempo). I wonder if it's too much contemporary black metal influence, as while it's not quite the soulless background music a lot of modern Scandinavian BM is, it doesn't leave much of a lasting impression with me. I've only heard a little bit of their previous material, but I remember the punk influences being wilder and filthier and the music being a little better for it.
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