Merciless Death
Evil in the Night
Band: Merciless Death
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This album excited me in the same way as when I heard my first Overkill album. This is some great retro thrash action. It takes you back to the mid 80's when cut off denim and bullet belts were essential accessories for any respectable metal head. Evil in the night was originally self released back in 2006. Only 100 copies were made in the first pressing. However demand led to another 300. After this heavy artillery records offered them a deal and listening to the album you can see why, it really is an excellent listen. The album was reissued with the addition of some excellent album art done by Ed Repka (responsible for the artwork for Megadeth, Municipal Waste, Death to name a few).
This band has certainly had a good old skool thrash education. The first band to come to mind listening to this is Kreator. Bands like destructor and razor coming into the mix as well. The songs are short aggressive bursts of energy leading to the album being quite short with eight tracks bludgeoned into less half an hour. However this isn't really an issue as thrash is often at its best when kept short and full of anger. Plenty of the 80s thrash bands went down hill when they started adding two minute intros and outros. The songs also have a tendency to blur into each other as they all pretty much the sound the same and there isn't much of a gap between each song. This again isn't a problem as it just adds to the unremitting pace of the album. The album contains plenty of violent sharp riffs and plenty of shredding throughout. Of all the bands trying to recreate thrash sound in recent years this has been one of my favourite listens. They create the sound brilliantly and look the part in their denim jackets and white tops. Merciless death could become a serious force to be reckoned with on the thrash scene and this will be remembered as their classic debut album. Joshua Johnson http://www.myspace.com/children_of_the_sabbath
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