Destruktor (Aust) - Nailed - Hell's Headbangers - 45:24min

I’ll be honest with you all, to me, listening to this accurate album from this Aussie based commando has been my first experience with their sound. Yeah, I know they’ve been involved in the underground since long way back and how it is possible that this mother fucker hasn’t heard anything from them before. Well, be it because of conceived prejudices result of read reviews of doubted qualified fanzines, the truth is that I never saw myself in the necessity to take a listen onto them. This, of course, came to change once HELLS HEADBANGERS sent me their new album “Nailed”. And fuck, what a killer band I was missing to!
For my neophyte ears, DESTRUKTOR comes and hits me in the guts with an unmerciful dose of brutal Death Thrash metal with shades of Black Metal that might remind you to their country mates NOCTURNAL GRAVES and DESTROYER 666, plus a pinch of “controlled” chaos (if such thing could happen!) in the style of BESTIAL WARLUST, but, with an impeccable sound production that, although it evidences a tendency on the raw edge quite much related to the analogue sound of late 80’s productions, it is professional and rotten enough to please my putrid senses eager for aged metal!
As a whole, in “Nailed” you’ll find 10 tracks straight to the bone, without more pretentions than shaking you from feet to head like an air missile bombing strike would explode inside your brain! Add to all this sonic assault a delicious executive production in the hands of HELLS HEADBANGERS where the logo of the band comes in silver relieve decorated with a cover artwork crafted in the hands of USA based artist Mark Riddick. If you are an addict of Aussie metal onslaught you shouldn’t let this album pass by unnoticed because for sure once you get into it, it won’t stop spinning in your stereo for a while. For those who are looking for a musical paradigm-breaker band, well, you should definitely listen to DESTRUKTOR too although they hardly will please you in those “demanding” fields of creativity, because certainly, it will contribute for a 45 minutes of unchaining mosh pit carnage no matter how sophisticated your taste might be! Contact the band HERE.

By U.Xerxes.H