HOLY WAR "Holy Fükkin'Warr" 2022

Ok, it's not anymore the typical style of music I'm listening to nowadays.... rather what I used to listen to years ago, when as kid i was discovering the METAL scene, when this one was still innovative, surprising, exciting, threatening & dangerous with bands like VENOM, DESTRUCTION, CELTIC FROST, POSSESSED.. you got it ? That Black/Thrash scene that made us feel invincible and fucking evil ! Ha ! Good memories ! So why today reviewing a band that plays that style ? Simply because HOLY WAR really kicks ass - and plays the style with alot of sincerity and conviction ! For sure, all the clichés are here.. Bullet belts, candles, make-up, leather & chains, inverted crosses & demons.. from the first sight, and from the intro with some "Ave Sathans/Hail Satan" - you really know what to expect and if this evil Black/Thrash metal style is your shit, then be sure you won't be disappointed ! Musically, that's really definitely somewhere in-between "Welcome To Hell/Black Metal" (Venom), "Infernal Overkill" (Destruction), "Morbid Tales" (Celtic Frost), "Obsessed By Cruelty" (Sodom) - all released between 1981 & 1986 - with a mix of mid & fast tempos, simple and efficient song-structures, devilish vocals (really close at times to Cronos I must say), alot of improbable and approximate guitar soli but so much in the tone of the 80's sound that it is really astonishing and hard-to-believe it's been released in 2022 - the overall production is also very raw & definitely not sophisticated, which adds alot of authenticity to the final result !
Fun fact, HOLY WAR was active between 1985-1988 without ever releasing any record and has been exhumed last year with a line-up of experienced musicians having played in alot of bands before, among them, TOWERING, DEMON EYES, MASSACRA to name a very few... So, know that, if all this can seem cliché, out-dated, kitsch ... It is totally assumed and that this is a well thought out artistic approach, whose goal is above all to have fun... For the rest, as we said back in the days .. FOAD !



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