NOCTURNAL FEAR
Code of Violence
(Moribund)

JAVELINA
S/T
(Translation Loss)

MERCILESS DEATH
Realm of Terror
(Heavy Artillery)

PHARMACOPOEIA
Volume 1
(Land o'Smiles)

THE SEVEN MILE
JOURNEY
The Metamorphorsis Project
(Fono'gram)

INSTANT ASSHOLE
Straight Edge Future

(Tankcrimes)

SUTCLIFFE JUGEND
Pigdaddy 

(Cold Spring)

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We must be careful not to lump this veteran Detroit death thrashers with the current revivalist wave of old school thrash metallers.  That would mean that we are turning a deaf ear to their past. Nocturnal Fear has in fact been around since the year 2000 and has plenty of studio experience; starting with their demo (Pagan Rites, 2001), and following up with two full-lengths (Sterilize and Exterminate, 2002 and Fog of War, 2005) and one EP (Line of Fire, 2007) our men in rock city have been waving the flag of hate for quite a long time.  

That’s not to say that Nocturnal Fear doesn’t drink from that well, because they sure as all fuck do so and plenty of it. But their kind of thrash metal certainly looks up in reverence more to Teutonic masterful ancestors like Destruction, Sodom and Kreator than to the more comfortable and jumpy sounds created in the Bay Area at the dawn of the 80’s.

And nowhere is that more in evidence than in the corrosive voice of Necromodeus; whose raspy/gargle/gasp of a voice quite frankly could gain him a spot as the stand in vocalist in one of those European festivals for either (or all) Mille Petrozza, Tom Angelripper or Schmier. His voice is great, his angle is ageless, his pronunciation quite clear. In a way Nocturnal Fear are already playing timeless metal. That’s also precisely where the ‘death’ in the genre comes from. Because musically Nocturnal Fear plays some absolutely slaying thrash metal.  The chrome dome six stringer Slave Hunter weaves with much ease riffs that come off as intricate and textured. His playing is flawless, a great balance act between aggression and melody. And check the dude out with those solos, which he makes sure to stamp them with sense instead of desperation. High quality stuff from whichever way you hear it.   Best song on the album; hands down “Out of Revenge”. An epic thrash metal song if there ever was one.

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