Drünken Bastards - Horns of the Wasted

Release Date: June 23, 2010
Label: Hells Headbangers

TRACK LISTING

1.  Nuclear Era
2.  Toxic Patrol
3.  Posercrusher
4.  Destroy the Factory (Eat My Fuk)
5.  Drink With Satan
6.  Alcoholic Big Tits
7.  Baptized in Speed and Blood
8.  Prophecy of the Evening Star
     (Barbatos)

Running Time:  19:35

June 30, 2010

Reviewer: J.A. Burt

Thrash, a genre largely devoid of the faux-misanthropic Satanist tough-guy posturing of black and death metal, has long been a refuge of sorts for those who’ve simply come to party.  An idyllic lakeside retreat if you will, where you can go and grill some burgers with Sacred Reich, drink a case with Tankard, smoke a bowl with Municipal Waste, and play Frisbee with Billy Milano.  Hungarian thrashers Drünken Bastards have just showed up to the party and brother, they brought booze.   Also they love Satan.  Horns of the Wasted, their second album (which strangely includes no less than three tracks that also appear on the debut) is a drunken blur of extremely punk infused thrash that’s raw enough to lean a tad towards the black thrash genre while having far more in common with the crossover bands of the mid 1980s than say Bestial Mockery or Gospel of the Horns.  It can’t be stressed enough how much more up front the punk/hardcore element is here than with most thrash, and vocalist Blizzard’s snarl bears a great deal more than a passing resemblance to Agnostic Front’s Roger Miret, so if you’re one of those poor misguided metalheads who think it makes any sense at all to love thrash but hate punk, you’re not going to dig this, and you’re not very bright.  It’s a fun record, and the excellent cover of Eat My Fuk’s bluest collar anarchist hymn “Destroy the Factory” is by far the high point, but at less than 20 minutes in length, I couldn’t see shelling out full length album money for it.  Go get it anyway, and see if you can drink an entire 6 pack of Pabst before it’s finished.

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