They’re loud, ugly, and they’re not taking shit from anyone. They’d stomp on your mother’s face just for a laugh. If you pick this up, don’t forget to duck.
Feedback creates notes to be linked together into a semblance of melody. Sound waves roll and respond, communicate and coalesce, and the result is Desolate.
The message is laudable, but the music gets buried in a swamp of sub-heavy metal riffs, and the production reduces the vocals to a barely intelligible growl.
In order to preserve the old-school style, members of Crown of Thornz, Madball, Maximum Penalty, and H2O got together and created Skarhead. Fast and furious.
On Heal, Sacred Reich performs as expected: Slow, heavy chugging guitars offset by bursts of triplets on the kick drum and searing guitar solos strewn lavishly about.