Description

2023 press on yellow vinyl with insert

New York City’s Demolition Hammer arrived on the East Coast thrash metal scene circa 1986; soon after, their first demo tape, Skull Fracturing Nightmare, began making the rounds of indie record labels and tape-trading fans alike. A second demo, entitled Necrology, arrived two years later and proved good enough to secure the group a recording contract with Century Media Records. There followed a pair of perfectly competent thrash albums in 1990’s Tortured Existence and 1992’s Epidemic of Violence. ‘Epidemic Of Violence’ was for Demolition Hammer a major step forward after their not extremely impressive debut. The heavier and more dynamic production already breathes some new life into the music, but the main improvement is in the songs with clearly more energy and stronger riffs than before. The delivery is so intense at times that some parts of this album sound like a direct equivalent for machine gun fire. Though the appeal of this approach does not last through the whole album, Epidemic Of Violence is a shattering piece of ultra-heavy thrash metal, in many ways comparable to Exhorder’s Slaughter In The Vatican. It doesn’t get much heavier than this, really

Track listing:
1. Skull Fracturing Nightmare
2. Human Dissection
3. Pyroclastic Annihilation
4. Envenomed
5. Carnivorous Obsession
6. Orgy Of Destruction
7. Epidemic Of Violence
8. Omnivore
9. Aborticide