Immoral Hazard - Convulsion
This is heavy thrash with a definite 90’s tinge hailing from Greece. This is the band’s first full length effort since forming in 2009 via a demo the year after. From the opening tune, there is to me a massive homage to Pantera, with the groove and downright aggressive take on the chunky side of thrash. You will also find tales relating the Slayer, Testament’s ‘Demonic’ release via ‘Self Enemy’ and even a few fables related to the ‘Load’/’ReLoad’ releases by nature of the vocal variations and slight experimentation on tracks such as ‘Vulture’s Dance’. One thing I will say, although this period of groove was pretty much panful at the time, I can see that Immoral Hazard have used the influences wisely and accumulated some good interpretations that leads this releases to be very far from predictable, it has bite, character and a sense of trying to do something a little bit more than average heavy thrash regurgitation.
Heavier moments start the release with ‘Pitch Black’, it’s very American as is thick and meaty in all the right places. The energy is rather sharp and to the point with the delivery clearing fuelling both passion and aggression. ‘Alcowhore’ is a touch filthy, it has a dirty gritty punkish feel to the start of the track that continues very much so throughout the track. This release does sound different on different sound systems, either in the car, on headphones or on a big stereo, so choose your poison wisely. But what is does do is remind listeners that there is a more sinister side to heavy thrash rather than copying the bay area or the German thrash style that’s occurred for the last six years or so. It’s a decent listen, but nothing that really jumps out and stands tall amongst a lot of the bands in this field and to those that verge into the bulging thrash death scene by nature of poor categorisation.
Heavier moments start the release with ‘Pitch Black’, it’s very American as is thick and meaty in all the right places. The energy is rather sharp and to the point with the delivery clearing fuelling both passion and aggression. ‘Alcowhore’ is a touch filthy, it has a dirty gritty punkish feel to the start of the track that continues very much so throughout the track. This release does sound different on different sound systems, either in the car, on headphones or on a big stereo, so choose your poison wisely. But what is does do is remind listeners that there is a more sinister side to heavy thrash rather than copying the bay area or the German thrash style that’s occurred for the last six years or so. It’s a decent listen, but nothing that really jumps out and stands tall amongst a lot of the bands in this field and to those that verge into the bulging thrash death scene by nature of poor categorisation.
- Pitch Black
- Reborn
- Self Enemy
- Vultures Dance
- Mentors
- Dead End Trails
- Eternal Exile
- Alcowhore
- Haven
- Last Nerve
