Perversor - Demon Metal

January 26, 2010

Reviewer: Chris

Black thrash is a great form of satanic metal, my personal favorite. Of course the prospect of thrash-meeting-Satan is one I relish and actively seek out at any given opportunity. So with the Hell’s Headbangers label putting out some of the better metal from the some great bands of late, I’m all on board!

Chile’s Perversor has issued the EP, Demon Metal, which sounds like a bastard child of Bathory’s under-mixed Return and Sodom’s Witching Metal demo, both highly-regard releases, if not the picture of audio perfection. Old-school (yes, I use that term a lot) has a certain charm and feel that not a lot of bands can capture, though it doesn’t just include middle-road production values and buried vocals beneath drums. You can usually tell what a band’s influences are just by hearing the way they arrange and manipulate the music accordingly. Perversor does it pretty well and can, at times, create a wall of sound bordering on the haunting and malevolent. The production is what one might expect from a mid-80’s thrash band on a budget, but it’s the charm of such a sound that highlights a release like this. 

Five songs of fine black thrash make Demon Metal very aptly-titled. It seems this trio has a good grasp on the elements needed to make solid metal music that can be both fun and brutal. The sheer speed of tracks like “March to the Temple of Doom” makes the EP something that thrash fans will appreciate and the black metal fans will cultivate.

After 2008’s Cult of Destruction, itself a great CD, Perversor has the makings of a band that can reach legendary status in the black-thrash area with fast-paced hymns for Beelzebub released in rapid succession like this.

A top-notch offering all around.

Release Date:  January 19th, 2010
Label: Hells Headbangers

TRACK LISTING

1.  Detonate
2.  Victory of the Legions
      of the Damned
3.  Enthrone the God of Blasphemy
4.  March to the Temple of Doom
5.  Command

Total playing time:  17:38

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