If this had been 1988, I’d probably have been raving.
But it’s not.
And I'm not raving.
We just plunged into 2009 and over the years I’ve come to like versatility and variation a lot more than I did back then. As long as it was hard and heavy, I liked it. And there weren’t that many bands back then, we were hungry for anything hard. And stuff.
You often listen to bands that hit the vein and play it old-school. That’s cool. Then you have the others who just come across old-fashioned.
Swedish Deceiver belongs to the latter category. Thrash metal the way we’ve heard it a thousand times before, doesn’t move any boundaries as much as an inch.
And not only that, the album more or less sounds the same all the way through, only interrupted but the 8th track (The Dungeon) where things are slowed down a bit, and the singer does something a bit different from the other 9 tracks.
That’s practically the only instance where I wake up when I listen to ‘Thrashing Heavy Metal’ and that doesn’t earn the thrashers more than a score just over the average.
Next, please.
