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7.5
- Band:
Speedhorn raging - Duration: 00:34:56
- Available since: 06/03/2025
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Bad, dirty, bad, tremendously ignorant. So we have always imagined them, rightly, the Raging Speedhorn. Also damn good at attacking, to chew Telluric grooves, to make us sink into mobile sands sludge and drowning into leaving anger and spirit of revenge of those who, like them, come from the suburbs and want to demonstrate all their value to the world.
The (once) boys of Corby, deep England, a deep adventure that has its roots in the early 2000s, in a sound already virulent, bastard and little inclined to compromises, but more aimed at an extremely farm metal/alternative dogmas, instead of the mixture/hardcorized sudge/metal of mature years. The return in great style on the stage of the Damnation Festival in 2014 served to relaunch the name of the group, which since then has carried out its activity intelligently. Few releases – this is the third album in ten years – live dates exclusively in the United Kingdom, the musical activity as a hobby to cultivate when there is really something to say, not for the deadlines to be respected.
If “Lost Ritual” had been something thunderous, even more multifaceted and reasoned, despite its explosiveness, than we would have expected, the even more direct and shaved “Hard to Kill” had further tickled our appetites for music from extremely tasty Bassifondi. Lercia, simple and nourishing.
“Night Wolf”, since the nice, Caciarona Cover with a werewolf intent on drinking beer at a party, symbolizes all the massive irreverence and the charge of the racing speedhorn, intent on playing on this occasion exactly what we would expect from them.
A lot of songs, therefore, crossed by a restorative and never redundant groove, corroborated by a weighted, hard and profound guitar work, stinks both in the most meditated times – with southern 'to the Louisiana' stronger than the usual – and in the most donated and screaming assaults. One of the sound-racing of Speedhorn sounds, or the two-part vocal assault, both dirty and ferocious, one deeper and the other more screamed, is confirmed very effective also in “Night Wolf”.
The farewell of the historic singer John Laughlin in 2019 was absorbed without shaking, the band had shown that he had hit his substitute with Daniel Cook: also for this release, his contribution does not make the predecessor regret. The vocal interchanges, the moments in which he and the dean Frank Regan sing together, always manage to do damage.
In the abundant half hour of the disc, the band does everything that knows the best, having fun and having fun. It is heard that there is total freedom behind a similar work, without external conditioning, composed and played for the simple enjoyment and the reference public. Impossible to stay still during a song like “Every Night's Alright for Fighting”, a party in the manner that intend to young people from the Anglo -Saxon suburbs, between colossal beer drinks and some brawls between subjects at the top outside the local pub.
As per tradition, the Speedhorn racing entertains very well to do damage and melodic breath, making themselves protagonists of engaging songs, rounded up from excellent production-all post-reunion albums play great, however-and anthemic what is enough (the title-track has a stadium refrain, to say). The hammers of “Doa”, the flourishes Rock'n'roll of “Comin 'in Hard” are unbridled mosh and do not have a comma out of place.
In direct comparison with the newly previous albums, we are on the same level of “Hard to Kill”, and just below “Lost Ritual”, similar in sound but there with a higher level of writing and a few more hits.
But we are there, racing speedhorn are getting old, I'm not here to make presence and still know how to inflame our hearts. It would be nice to be able to review them around from their area of competence, to celebrate a very cafon metal party together. We hope listening to us …
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
