Artist: Destroyer 666

Album: Cold Steel…For An Iron Age

Label: Season Of Mist

Link: http://www.destroyer666.net/

Band Members:

K.K. Warslut – Vocals

Shrapnel - Guitar, Vocals

Matt - Bass

Mersus - Drums

“Cold Steel…For An Iron Age” by Destroyer 666, is a rather enormous force to be reckoned with. This album takes old school thrash and black metal, blends it perfectly, and then adrenalizes it with razor sharp and lightning fast riffs. This album is a wonderful collection of intensity…it’s probably impossible NOT to headbang to this album! Probably some of the coolest riffs you will ever hear actually turn this album into a roaring inferno of evil, hate, and aggression. It embodies the fun spirit of early extreme metal. One influence I did notice clearly is pre-Hammerheart Bathory, especially during the solos. As sharp as some of the songs may be, this album is quite epic as well. The tracks trade off nicely between fast and hectic, to waltzy and melodic in the most evil sense of the words. Warslut, as always, does an excellent job with his perfectly suited voice, ranging from raspy and thrashy BM yells, to low DM shouts. There are a few ambient choir sounds sprinkled here and there that provide excellent support for some of the more epic songs. Production is quite crisp but there is not one moment on the album that suggests Destroyer 666 has let go of the old school intensity. This is the kind of music that will sound good no matter how it is mixed. It’s also the kind of music that makes you want to put your leather jacket on and go kill everything. I highly recommend this album to anyone into any form of extreme music. Destroyer 666 shows no signs of slowing down or disappointing down the road.

Track Listing:

1. Black City - Black Fire

2. Clenched Fist

3. Cold Steel...

4. Sons of Perdition

5. Raped

6. The Calling

7. Savage Pitch

8. Witch Hunter

9. Shadow