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- Band:
Whipper - Duration: 00:37:09
- Available since: 07/03/2025
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The time of the fifth album has finally arrived for the Whipriker. This One-Man Band, around 2008, can be considered without a shadow of a doubt one of the best products released from Brazil in the last fifteen/twenty years: the project must be undoubtedly placed in that Old-School revival which as a base has Motorhead and Celtic Frost of the first period, from which you can, metaphorically, weave a canvas that can go more decidedly towards the punk-see the groups of the 'metal punk' vein Occasion of the last disc of the German Indian Nightmare – or choose a more marked metal component, both as an imaginary and as sound.
Here we are more in the second case: even if in the debut “raw rock 'n' roll” the result was not so far from bands like the Inepsy, over time the proposal of the project has become much more articulated than the average of the bands of the genre. How this new work can testify – but also its predecessor, “Merciless Artilly”, of 2018 – the voice to the dischage has remained (here a little more tending to the Venom), but the sound has embellished with several more melodic elements and close to classic Heavy Metal.
The structure of the pieces is not the classic overdose of 'tupa-tupa' that reserve for us many bands of the genre: as we can listen to pieces such as “Six Eyes Crow Division”, the trend is often to add harmonizations and passages that go far beyond the basic form of the 'two/three song riff'. Even in songs such as “Heartrippers”, with a simpler structure and with a very marked refrain, there is the desire to embellish everything with some not obvious elements – see the initial riff or the rhythmic of the Assolo.
Very noteworthy is the final “Military Scum”, a ten -minute song of duration, in whose central part we find a Clean arpeggio that even recalls the immortal of “At the Heart of Winter”, before the piece starts in all its fury. Finally, there is also a very pleasant cover of “Satan's Vengeance” of the Destruction, with Daniel Avenger of the German Thrasheri Nocturnal.
Although in principle this return does not detach itself much from the previous album, “Cry of EXTINSTION” turns out to be a very enjoyable job: it manages to be directed to the point when it owes, but at various times it proves to have that extra touch of class – in a genre that makes 'no class' a mission – that many bands of the genre cannot boast. Although the non -lovers of the old school can hardly interest, it is an excellent soundtrack for your aperitifs in the parking lot with a strictly poor beer of beer, as it is right.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
