Dare we simply call their style Canadian metal? OK, it has been said plenty of times before and by way more important people, but can we for once forget about Swedish death metal and about Florida death metal and about that mother of all excesses, technical death metal, and think of Canadians as birth givers of the style too?  Canucks have been at it just as long as anybody else, and even though there is not a style they can claim as their own, there are certainly quality levels most of their extreme bands have made sure to keep up with.

Based on At Life’s End, their first EP, Slaughter Strike could already be considered alongside a few semi greats in the great white north. Especially if we take into account a couple of semi obscure Canadian bands, like Bastardator (who sadly called it quits last year) and Begrime Exemious, who aurally reside much closer to these deathsters, as heavyweight purveyors of overlooked extreme metal.

Unlike the Swedish brethren, the death metal of Slaughter Strike spends most of its time growing a bigger dick to thrash metal. “Frozen Scream” is basically that, except from the tuning and fatter guitars (groove solos included) to the almost spastic pronunciation of vocalist DK, this quartet turns it up a notch. Unlike the Florida greats, Slaughter Strike forgets about redneckeries and precision. This may be a result of the band sharing two members with powerviolence glories The Endless Blockade. Their songs are concise you see. Fat, but void of filler. Fat, but fatless, dare we say.

OK, no band can completely escape the influence of many and while our job is not to go on a limb enumerating a list for your download pleasure, we’ll say this much, fuck off and get the vinyl version already. It comes with a black insert in which you can read all the lyrics and admire their dripping logo in all its glory. May these Toronto deathsters live on for at least twenty more Walpurgisnachts.

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