Band: Assaulter
Title: Salvation Like Destruction
Label: Pulverised Records
Distribution: Sure Shot Worx
Release date: 23/03/2009
Review: CD

Assaulter are a horde from New South Wales, Australia, featuring former Deströyer 666-member Simon Berserker. Shortly after the two-track EP Subservience (Iron Bonehead), the band recorded its debut full length, which has duration of forty minutes. And what this band stands for, well, it’s not meant for everyone, I guess. First of all, the sound is rather ‘special’. The production is extremely rough and raw, filthy and pulverising. I do appreciate this sound a lot (cf. Kuturlat, Abscess, Obliteration, Necrophagia), and in this case it perfectly fits to the chaotic Thrash / Black Terror. The apocalyptic tracks are heavy and stomping, pounding and harsh, which covers the album in an impenetrable and hideous diabolic darkness. This uncompromising material isn’t built upon technical experiments, but it stands for border-crossing and skull-breaking war chants of revenge and victory. Three tracks are re-recorded demo-versions, by the way, and the artwork is sober yet oh so wonderful!

89/100

Ivan Tibos.