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THRASH BOMBZ - Duration: 00:55:04
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“Sicilian Way Of Thrash”. It is the title of the first demo, dated 2012, but we can easily take it as an official warning of their way of understanding heavy metal. The band from Agrigento called Thrash Bombz, active for over fifteen years now, arrives today at the fourth chapter of their career: “Bio Decay” arrives on our shelves with a load of ninety, where speed and, coincidentally, thrash metal are the basis for the over fifty minutes recorded.
Serial riffs, calibrated and precise rhythm section, determining a rough balance between aggression and control. Two elements that have increasingly found footing within the artistic path of the Sicilian band, which, after their last studio work, “Prisoner Of Disaster” in 2018, however suffered an operational setback: the pandemic period, together with some line-up changes, have in fact forced Thrash Bombz into a slow recovery resulting in the new “Bio Decay”, in which a certain desire for revenge, in addition to the spirit of the old school, stand out as the main protagonists.
Twelve songs – in the long run a little too many, to be honest – with which Tony “Stormer” Frenda and his companions launch their invective against human behavior, now headed towards self-destruction, and digital surveillance. It is from this context that “Drone Death” stands perfectly as an opening piece, combining the reckless violence of vintage Exodus with the heaviness of the Sodom-branded German crawler. And it is the opener itself that summarizes the global proposal of Thrash Bombz, who do not disdain even a hint of harmony, traceable here and there between the various episodes; see for example “Viral Metal” or “Media War…or the Final Weap”, where a Megadeth-branded component makes its way with pleasure.
We talked about aggression a few lines above, and here we have “Psycho Massess”, “Transhuman Condition”, “Digital Evil”, or the title track itself, in which the work of the two guitarists Giuseppe “UR” Peri and Salvatore “Skizzo” Li Causi finds absolute freedom in constantly pressing their foot on the accelerator, without however losing the thread of the furious skein.
A controlled razor: we could define it as the fourth piece of Thrash Bombz; uncompromising and energetic. There are in fact no big news or other twists: everything, even as mentioned, goes straight as it should be, created by a group that certainly proves to be no beginners. And it is also for this reason that, despite some reservations, “Bio Decay” will be able to play on your stereo several times.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
