Deathblow decided to give thrash a big ol’ injection of cocaine in the eyeballs so that everybody could wake the fuck up and see what they were missing out on. Man, it’s been a while since a thrash band really grabbed me by the balls and made me angry and hyped the way that this band does. To be honest, my thrash tastes usually range on the nasty and brutal side of things, because I find if I’m looking for straight-up heaviness I gravitate towards death metal naturally. Insect Politics gives no fucks about genre preference. It’s a thundering slap in the face that gets your blood pumping as good as anything. Deathblow realizes that the key to writing a great thrash album isn’t just to recreate the exact riff style Kreator had in the 80s, but to instead use that as an occasional reference point for making heavy and punishing music. There is not a single moment wasted on this album. Insect politics alternates between explosive, ripping songs like “Accelerated Decrepitude”, “Nefarious Ends” and “Insect Politics”, and tasty grooving numbers like “Brain Bugs” and “Convert Or Die”, with a little bit of everything in between to keep things Interesting. The album strikes the perfect balance keeping things diverse enough to hold your attention throughout. The riffs are entirely thrash fucking metal. They like riffs and you can feel like you're banging your head against the stage. You’ll always find me enthusiastically praising thrash and Deathblow aren’t an experimental or unusual band, but it’s not that they’re doing anything different, it’s that they’re doing everything right. A pure thrash metal album !!
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Review by Paul Caravasi
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