Technical thrash, but not exactly lyrical... 4/5
Thrash Metal is often defined as being brutal, containing blistering guitar work and mind blowing guitar skills - which generally is shredding, shredding, and more shredding - and lyrically contains death to mankind, blood, destruction and God being a general idiot for allowing those things to happen. Polish band Fanthrash fits well into that category with heavy technical guitar skills with growling vocals. But if that is the consistent theme and formula this album has make it boring?
I'll make it brief – no, it doesn't. With most of the album penned by lyricist Less Supplying the deep growls and the down-to-earth rhythm section - the formula is usually the same, especially for the stereotypically titled starter track
"Intro" and evolving to the climatic "Allocation of the Soul" and the schizophrenic "Lizard Skeleton", which then, oddly enough, changes everything because of the technical elements of Lead Guitarist Wojciech "Pilate" Pilat and being backed by the down-to-earth rhythm of Grzegorz "Greg" Obroslak and the blazing bass and drums from Mariusz "Mary" Ostep and Radek "Rad" Grygiel. Fast and brutal, yet with (unfortunately) bog standard lyrics that aren't going to make any songs on this album a Sing-a-long, (apart from the rip roaring "Trauma Despotic" and the title track "Duality of Things"), Fanthrash have the creative drive to make themselves the next best thing in Thrash, without having to sell their souls to the devil in the process.
http://www.myspace.com/fanthrashband
http://www.fanthrash.com/
I'll make it brief – no, it doesn't. With most of the album penned by lyricist Less Supplying the deep growls and the down-to-earth rhythm section - the formula is usually the same, especially for the stereotypically titled starter track
"Intro" and evolving to the climatic "Allocation of the Soul" and the schizophrenic "Lizard Skeleton", which then, oddly enough, changes everything because of the technical elements of Lead Guitarist Wojciech "Pilate" Pilat and being backed by the down-to-earth rhythm of Grzegorz "Greg" Obroslak and the blazing bass and drums from Mariusz "Mary" Ostep and Radek "Rad" Grygiel. Fast and brutal, yet with (unfortunately) bog standard lyrics that aren't going to make any songs on this album a Sing-a-long, (apart from the rip roaring "Trauma Despotic" and the title track "Duality of Things"), Fanthrash have the creative drive to make themselves the next best thing in Thrash, without having to sell their souls to the devil in the process.
http://www.myspace.com/fanthrashband
http://www.fanthrash.com/