- Genre: 'Heavy Metal'
- Release Date: '1st January 2025'
Our Rating:
The Ontario death metal five-piece align themselves with the likes of Bolt Thrower, Hail of Bullets, and Scalpture, and their Bandcamp strapline is ‘Love metal, hate fascism. A chainaxe to the face of bigotry.’ I had to look up specifically what a chainaxe is, but it makes sense on learning that they take their name a chaos space Marine legion in Warhammer, but they get my vote for the sentiment alone.
We are living in some truly terrible times, and those who have little or no interaction with the world of metal way struggle to comprehend that exponents of this seemingly brutal, violent genre is, are fact, channelling catharsis while seeking and promoting peace.
The EP boasts five epic tracks, with brooding synths and heavy atmosphere providing the introduction to the first, the six-minute ‘Armoured Spearhead (Hellhammer)’. The vibe is very much Seventies prog rippling beneath the spoken-word intro… and then the guitars and guttural vocals blast in and the next four minutes are heads-down, nonstop pounding. ‘The Commissar Shoots’ is a six-minute riff juggernaut. This is proper, unadulterated, full-throttle death metal, with all of the technical accomplishment and monster solo work, although the production leans toward blacker territories, being as dank, dark, and murky as Satan’s armpit.
‘Death Korps’ roars and rages at a hundred miles per hour, a raw-throated blast of obliterative fury, and the final track, the eight-minute-forty-five ‘Expedition Tomb World’ – recorded back in 2021 and originally featured on their Grinding Advance EP makes for an appropriate closer.
We can only hope that 2025 is not as dark as forecast, that fascism doesn’t rise to power, that Trump doesn’t for a dictatorship, make Canada the 51st state and buy Greenland. World Eaters won’t be able to stop any of it, but they’ve delivered an early slab of solace that helps if you turn it up till your ears scream.
