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Vektor: Black Future
Vektor are the absolute best fucking thrash band from Arizona.
Ripping tech thrash! 2009! Fuck?
Ok, that’s not completely unheard of. Revocation are whiplashing like mad in the 21st. Vektor trades in Revocation’s “death/” for a grittier production and a taste for Voivodian alien epic.
Traditional thrash hammering gets contorted into tremolo picked, warbling dissonance and drawn out onto dizzyingly beautiful mountain-top triumphant soloing. Thrash beats are whipped into near blast-beat skanking frenzied black metal runs. The bass thunders and gallops in Steve Harris fashion, bounding along and occasionally offering melodic counterpoint to the chugging guitars. Blistering epics about the cold brutality of the cosmos and mankind’s thirst for its own blood are spat and stuttered by a rasping voice which occasionally shatters piercingly into the upper reaches. This will be the most likely sticking point for casual thrash fans (not fans of casual thrash, which I guess would be Symphony X fanboys?): if you absolutely cannot stand the vocals on early Destruction or Sadus albums you will not be pleased.
Otherwise, this is mandatory. The pile of bands that have broken themselves at the altar of “fuckin’ oldschool” thrash is massive. Few are improving upon the masterworks, and fewer present anything new to the genre. “Black Future” falls into the latter category, sounding not like something that could’ve been released in 1987, but like something that should’ve. “Black Future” is from an alternate timeline where thrash never died and where a schism between technical prowess and thrashing fury never developed. There was a point when bands that ripped out blazing solos, complicated arrangements, and occasionally fucked off into other dimensions were also some of the ones actually kicking ass. Think Atheist or Coroner.
Vektor never made any hard decision between sci-fi and their Sadus albums.
- Lord Mokrap
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shadesofheavenlydeath reblogged this from tentaclesofham-fistedbludgeonry and added:
Lord Mokrap has launched his first mighty album review attack...Arizona tech-thrash band!
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