Band: Wicca
Title: Bloodrush
Label: Twilight Zone Records
Distribution: Bertus
Release date: April 9th 2010
Review: CD

Wicca are a legendary act from Germany, especially known for their cult-release Splended Deed, originally released in 1989 (!).

Now, more than twenty years after, the band returns with the second studio recording, called Bloodrush, and having duration of forty minutes.Bloodrush sounds a lot like Splended Deed, yet with two important differences: the compositions and the sound. The compositions are more mature and well-thought than on the debut. The whole comes with the same intense aggression and adult power, yet the song structures are more firm and cohesive. Also the sound did evolve positively. The album sounds as a vicious sledgehammer-attack on a skull-less brain. The mix between the instruments and vocals is perfectly balanced, and the production is clean yet massive at the same time.
The other details are the same: fast, flesh-cutting no-nonsense Thrash riffs, screaming vocals and a few harmony choirs, a fierce rhythm section, lots of tempo-changes, melodic yet razor-sharp guitar solos, socio-critical lyrics, and a traditional but modern-sounding approach.

This isn’t renewing material, yet Bloodrush certainly is highly recommended to every fan of melodic old school-influenced German Thrash Metal.

83/100

Ivan Tibos.