(Heavy Artillery)
Total Time: 25:43
What’s going on here? What is this? Is this a reissue of a forgotten jewel of the early-mid ‘80’ s. Ed Repka’ s cover art, high tops athletics, no sleeves jean and leather jackets full of badges, classic collage photos inner sleeve, the usually awesome hate list…
No shit! Release year: 2007. For these young Americans fellows the time seems to have stopped back in ’83-’86. I don’t know how old they were back then, but these kids knows how to play serious merciless authentic thrash metal. MERCILESS DEATH (you already guess from where they got the name, didn`t you?) managed to give back the basics to the genre. Sheer aggression, speed, unleashed riffs, and the most important simplicity and feeling.
“Evil In The Night” is a fistful of metal with power and pain right in the unsuspected faces of the so called saviors of thrash metal scene. Like evil invaders, they show no mercy and leave their scars to the fancy saviors` asses. MERCILESS DEATH looks like a fabulous disaster forced them running to survive with eyes of horror. This album will be their eternal nightmare! The band plays THE total old school thrash metal. With the main influences came from Slayer (Show No Mercy - Hell Awaits), Dark Angel (We Have Arrived - Darkness Descends), Exodus (Bonded By Blood), Kreator (Pleasure To Kill) and secondly from bands like Razor, Whiplash, Sacrifice, S.O.D. “Evil In The Night’ is an unstoppable force, full of ripping guitar riffs, killing speed rhythms, sweet cacophony leads, vocals powered from hell and lyrics full of violence, force and evil. A pure dedication to the old school extreme aggression.
I don’t really care if the “specialists” call MERCILESS DEATH retro, for this isn’t a charge. I’m also very sick of all these mellow, virtuoso, wicked bands that use thrash metal only as a label and they are unable to convince me that they truly have the guts to play it and not just to claim it. This is because this kind of music demands guts, heart, respect and big belief. You must get and have the right feeling and MERCILESS DEATH have it. So don’t be in ignorance and enter the Thrash Zone, “Evil In The Night” is the perfect ticket.
