Rotor - Behind The 8th Ball

Fiuuuh..., after almost 2 month doing searching finally thanks God! i found this one, the most rare and my most favorit everlasting local thrash metal album. This was the first full lenght studio album by the first to be known of Indonesian band who played thrash metal genre- Rotor. Released in 1992 under Airo Records ( the same label which released Edane's first album) in Audio Cassettes format. Irvan Sembiring, the front man was doing his best job for putting this album as the most essential and crucial thrash metal album with great lyrics inside it. It was recorded in the time when recording session still uses direct live recording with 8 way track channels. All the songs were raging while full speed drumming from Bakkar ( The Drum Player ) running within, good rifting, thrashy voice, all that needed to destroy the traditional paradigm in Indonesia music culture at the time. The pioneer would always be the legend, and that why Rotor would always be the one. If you want to dig about Indonesian metal music history, this one is a must have!

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Kreator - Horder Of Chaos

"Horder Of Chaos" is the newest 2009 full studio album by this thrash metal legend - Kreator that released under SPV Records after their last 2005 album entitled : "Enemy Of God". Much like other Kreator's album before, all of the 10 songs are actually catchy without compromising the integrity or heaviness of the rest of the material- the hooks are not Poppy in the slightest, but are extremely memorable, in the best possible way. Due to the fact of having that barring vocals, killer gripping guitar solos, with some ground breaking melodies brings this album up to speed putting it into overdrive sending the speed limit to a zillion! The album was recorded using a live setting 4-track tape recorder with no overdubs or anything to get in it's way putting out an record that is a true masterpiece to the thrash metalhead in you. Using the political and religious tensions prevalent on the geopolitical stage as a thematic starting point, “Hordes of Chaos” is filled with frenetic riffs, bursts of speed intermixed with moments of melody and Mille’s fluid guitar work, and a couple of well placed, soft spoken acoustical passages somewhat reminiscent of Metallica, circa “Master of Puppets” or so

In short, Kreator have delivered an excellent album and demonstrate that, like Destruction, there is still plenty of life left in classic German thrash metal.

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Hirax - Barrage Of Noise

Hirax is a thrash metal band from Orange County, California. Formed in 1984, the band has played in Los Angeles and San Francisco with the other new thrash metal bands of the area such as Metallica, Exodus, and Slayer. This "Barrage Noise" EP is their 2001 release under Deepsix records contains 8 bloody raw thrash tracks and also the first release after they got reformated. I think the compositions inside the EP are alot more varied and ambitious than earlier, and the album sounds quite different from the band's original releases in the eighties. Since their popularity over the years has been maintained in large part due to the power violence scene's obsession with them, I fully expected HIRAX to try and make a power violence record. They didn't. They keep made a HIRAX record. Sure there are some classic HIRAX moments here but this is definitely a new piece of the HIRAX legacy. There are some slower and more melodic moments on the CD that took me a bit by surprise but after repeated listens I have grown to appreciate them as well. Maybe this is not the best if we compare it with previous Hirax's albums in the old days, but i'm still really sure that it's still Hirax thrashing all the way they go.

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