Description

Norwegian act Tonka plays Thrash Metal combined with traditionally Heavy Metal which features some technically guitar riffs and leads. In the guitars, you can recognize the influence of Chuck Schuldiner, while the vocals are very Thrash-unlike. The vocals are rough but they are understandable and endowed with some melodies and this is something you will find very seldom in this genre. The band tries to integrate some diversity in their songs, they don’t want only simple thrashing, whereby there aren’t much speed attacks, there are more midtempo and dragging songs, the band hasn’t any fear to integrate some absolutely Thrash-unlike elements, take N.N.S.B.T (whatever that means) for example. The vocals are not the most beautiful ones ever heard but they fit the music perfectly, its spans from really aggressive parts to slow parts in the ballads, and they sound great except on a few places where they believe too much in the vocal strength of the singer. The first half of this album is close to perfect but unfortunately the second half doesn’t hold quite the same quality. So now we can just hope, that someone notices the qualities of the band, which they undoubtedly possess, and give them a chance as Tonka has a lot of passion for what they do and it can be heard in their music

Track listing:
1. Secondary World: The Final Solution
2. Pornochild
3. My Last Abduction
4. The Murder
5. N.N.S.B.T.
6. The Mother and the Beast
7. Behemoth and Leviathan