Well, you heartless
record shopper, you, you’ll stop when you come across the Thanatos
album if you know what’s good for you, because what we have here
is some really good beans-and-rice death metal coming from Rotterdam
straight into your soon-to-be-broken face. Thanatos are a gateway
drug between Slayer (who I assume you already know are great) and
the new breed of death metal, which is so extreme that some people
have difficulty adjusting to it. Thanatos’s guitars are fairly
melodic, their vocals occasionally comprehensible, their beats head-bangable.
They lurch into adept thrash metal riffage from time to time before
dropping back onto the double-kick-drum bedrock that anchors most
death metal. Their soloist pays tribute to Morbid Angel’s Trey
Azagthoth by slavishly imitating him in the song “Sincere Chainsaw
Salvation,” and it’s here, dear reader, where we must pause
and consider the endless simple truth of rule
#1.
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