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Still sealed with slipcase

Neither viruses at large nor, on a shorter scale, flighty musical trends can stop Protector. In fact, it seems that the thrash veterans have been delivering the goods in a more consistent fashion than ever since their official reformation in Sweden under their original name in 2011. Band leader Martin Missy tends to agree, seeing his troupe just as strong as it was in the late eighties. I think all the different line-ups were on the same level, only this one has been together for a longer time than any other – 16 years to be exact, if you want to include what we did under the banner Martin Missy and the Protector’s. Which leads us to the Teutonic-Scandinavian unit´s 2022 effort Excessive Outburst Of Depravity, sounding as unmistakably Protector as the creative process was business as usual in an ideal sense. Everybody wrote riffs on their own, which we then played to each other and turned into songs. I wrote most of the lyrics, but Mathias contributed four, too. Speaking of the bass player´s tunes, Shackled By Total Control has socio-critical undertones whereas Pandemic Misery is the only track on the album dealing with the plague that is Corona. At the funny end of the spectrum, closer Morse Mania harks back to Caught In A Morse from Martin´s 2007 demo with Talion. Beyond that, the WWII-inspired Referat IV B 4 and the sinister crawl of Open Skies And Endless Seas are classic Missy fare, showing the shouter´s unabated interest in mankind´s often belligerent history. Excessive Outburst Of Depravity will enthuse thrash maniacs worldwide thanks to Protector´s sheer down-to-earthness.

Track list:
1. Last Stand Hill
2. Pandemic Misery
3. Referat IV B 4
4. Open Skies And Endless Seas
5. Infinite Tyranny
6. Perpetual Blood Oath
7. Thirty Years Of Perdition
8. Cleithrophobia
9. Toiling In Sheol
10. Shackled By Total Control
11. Morse Mania