WITCHTRAP – Hungry As The Beast

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7.5

• Bands:
  WITCHTRAP
• Duration: 00:35:18
• Available from: 09/27/2024
• Label:

• Hells Headbangers

If one day you want to organize an air guitar challenge with friends, remember to bring with you the present “Hungry As The Beast”, Witchtrap's sixth work. The reason is very simple: you will never get tired of messing around left and right, simulating riffs, in the midst of the ferocity transmitted by this crazy South American trio.
Witchtrap, in reality, were not born yesterday: those who chew the most vulgar and ramshackle black-thrash may have already come across in the past the speed madness perpetrated by the trio from Medellin, active for over thirty years, author of five albums, three EPs and several splits. Commanding the troop is the guitarist and singer Burning Ax Ripper (alias Carlos Mario Uribe Muñoz); with him his drummer brother Witchhammer (born Hugo Alberto) and bassist Edison “Enforcer” Gil, hired way back in 2003.
Like an evil grinder, the Colombian band sharpens our incisive teeth by dint of ignorant and at the same time very catchy riffs, calling on Exumer, Running Wild, Motörhead, in addition to Venom, Desaster and Destroyer 666; a capillary brothel swill, useful for throwing oneself against the most imposing walls, with the sole intent of knocking them down with headbutts; all with the smile of someone who can't wait to get away from the first to the last minute.
The voice of Burning Ax himself, a real mangy and snarling dog that will cling to your trousers and never let go, adds to the sound.
Intense and dripping proof of old school devotion, we find it as soon as we insert the cute disk into our trusted stereo. “Built For The Kill” has no acoustic intros or other presentations resembling boiling cauldrons; the machine gun fire starts at the second number zero and makes a clean sweep. “He's built for the kill, and he's heartless and he's mean.. and he's ready to destroy”; disarming simplicity for the classic refrain to shout endlessly. The mass of riffs absolutely doesn't lose any energy, and the title track follows the initial impact exactly: pounding, pounding and pounding again; because the beast is always hungry and has no intention of slowing down the brutal aggression. “Ruthless Agression” therefore arrives as a third and definitive punch in the stomach, not changing the massive pace of riff-mixed-with-tupa-tupa one iota, accumulating speed and hysteria.
“Hungry As The Beast” pleases and amuses precisely because of its spontaneity of intent, inserting less bombastic passages here and there, preferring more square solutions similar to classic heavy metal: hence “Satanism” and “Invocation”, calibrated to an immediate midtempo. A brief reflective break, before the last speed round, in which “Lightning Attack” fulfills the ideal closing of a box set ready to explode again.
Distributed last May by the Colombian label Dirty Sound Records, Witchtrap's new album today finds its 'worldwide' dimension thanks to the timely Hells Headbangers, thus allowing the three to take their black-thrash creed beyond borders.