POISON THE PREACHER – Things I Want

vote
6.5

• Bands:
  POISON THE PREACHER
• Duration: 00:14:07
• Available from: 07/17/2026
• Label:

• Seek And Strike

The hardcore component of Poison The Preacher was already well-marked in their pleasant debut, “Vs The World” and, just a year after that work, it seems to have taken over.
Furthermore, they themselves, in the promotional notes, declare that these four pieces, written immediately after the release of the debut, should be seen as “hardcore songs played for metalheads, or metal songs played for hardcore kids”. This is not that far from the truth, although, as we were saying, in reality the hc component is decidedly more present than in the aforementioned “Vs The World”, where the crossover hung neatly – so to speak – between the two souls.
It is therefore not surprising that Speed, an Australian hardcore band, is hosted in the opener that gives the mini its title, a nice calling card for the sounds proposed, where the Colombian formation shows a heaviness that becomes bigger and bigger with each turn of the guitar.

If the thrash metal proposed sailed among the first Testament, Municipal Waste and Sucidal Tendencies, the latter are now the name that comes most to mind when listening to the four songs proposed here. Many breakdowns, slowdowns, a lot of anger is what you will find within this handful of minutes, not without folk-territorial digressions, with fleeting interludes of Colombian popular music, together with punk influences and a allure death metal; in short, that type of explosive mixture that can be crap or a bowler hat.
Luckily, the result tends more towards the positive: ours in fact hit very hard, they focus on heaviness rather than speed (listen to “Ran Out Of Options”), which perhaps reappears in some moments (“Chicken Out”, which despite maintaining a certain amount of hardness, has a really ignorant and enjoyable thrash punk interlude).

In short, Poison the Preacher seem to have taken a path towards personalizing their sound, although we must say that last year's version, although not too surprising, didn't displease us at all.
In the end this project seemed simple entertainmentbut the four tracks present here have more to say than it would seem, although overall they are really too little to formulate a true judgment on the group's definitive potential (we're talking about less than a quarter of an hour of music).
Let's see where they end up with a new full-length.