Herod
For Whom The Gods Would Destroy (LifeForce)
By Martin Popoff
Buffalo, NY’s Herod actually have a punk past, but man, have they mastered metal… This bloody thing just leaps off the plastic with a recording that has more punch than Andy Sneap knob-jobbing after a bottle of Jack. And the music is worthy of the production bombast, Herod creating a gorgeous combination of Swedish thrash, Finnish drear/thrash/doom and… hard to pin… but all the things that made Metallica great, sorta in a space between Master… and …And Justice…
(www.lifeforcerecords.com)