Description

German pressed music cassette. Red cassette with black text. Limited 50 copies

Despite forming in 2013 and a couple demos and a split over those first few years, it wasn’t until Hellcrashs debut album, Krvcifix Invertör, where the band started to make a dark name for itself. Krvcifix Invertör proved Hellcrash were a power-trio in the grand tradition of domestic legends Bulldozer, brewing a similarly sleazy and evil style of speed metal. Simple but sublime it was, and diehards definitely took notice. Then two years later came the follow up, Demonic Assassination. On first glance it would seem that the band are sticking to their guns, sowing the same seeds as earliest Slayer, Venom, and of course Bulldozer. Peer deeper and this latest expurse of sodomy shows that there’s more – much more – to Hellcrashs cauldron. Immediately, their attack’s more refined here: some would call it cleaning up, but the fine-tuning of songcraft and polishing of production have paid off in spades across Demonic Assassination. As such, there’s far more variation in that songcraft – sometimes more speed metal, other times more thrash, or even metalpunk before it was such a thing, often all in the same song – and Hellcrash ably finesse this transition with tighter execution that, thankfully, doesn’t sacrifice an ounce of energy. In fact, if there’s on guiding aspect here, it’s energy: while Hellcrash sometimes seem on the verge of self-combustion, so juiced-up is their rollercoaster sound, it all spills over into the listener as a celebration of filth, fury, and fun. Could this be their The Final Separation? Perhaps…

Track list:
1. Volcanic Outburst
2. Okkvlthammer
3. Satans Crypt
4. Usurper Of Hell
5. Abyss Of Lucifer
6. Serpent Skullfuck
7. Finit Hic Deo
8. Graveripper
9. Demonic Assassination