Band: Morbid Carnage
Title: Night Assassins
Label: Pulverised Records
Distribution: /
Release date: June 2010
Review: CD

In 2007, some members of e.g. Hexenwood, Fagyhamu and Concrete decided to start a new band, not just a side-project, to express their common interest for ‘True’ Old Skool Thrash Violence. The Hungarian quartet released a split-cassette with Concrete (Heavy/ Thrash Metal) and last year they recorded their debut full length studio album, Night Assassins, which now get released though Singaporean super-label Pulverised.

For about thirty six minutes (seven titles), Night Assassins brings a very old fashioned form of extreme Thrash Superiority, yet with a fabulous, skull-crushing sound. As from the first tones on “Warlust”, the opening track, one thing is clear: this material pays tribute to the eighties masters of Ultimate Thrash. Not the sometimes pathetic Bay Area-styled bullshit, not the Swedish would-be nonsense, yet the somewhat Teutonic, black-edged form.

Except for the quality of sound, which is enormously and surprisingly satisfying, the whole sounds as if it were recorded (more than) twenty years ago. But believe me: Night Assassins does not sound passé at all; this material isn’t ‘too late’. Like the band’s influentials (early Metallica, Dead Head, Nuclear Assault, Sodom, Sadus, Possessed, Kreator, Assassin, Destruction and Slayer), this IS Ultimate Thrash in it purest definition.

Have some beer, have some bitch, and f*ck the rest!

85/100

Ivan Tibos.