Start the new year off right with some thrash. Dust off your white Reebok high tops and jean jacket held together by band patches, we’re about to enter the domain of longhairs. If you were told Rise, Vulcan Spectre from Nekromantheon was from a forgotten boutique metal label circa ’86, you’d believe it. In fact though, this was put out last year on bandcamp. Bandcamp is the new new Nuclear Blast.

Nekromantheon’s mixture of Slayer worship, Beneath The Remains era Sepultura style composition and insanely fast solos take their album beyond simple thrash nostalgia to something that’d you actually want on casette. Blast this shit real loud from a boombox and reaffirm the vow of love and devotion to Satan you made when you were 16.

- raythedestroyer