Thrall "Vermin To The Earth" CD

Hailing from the Outback's badlands, Tasmania, Australia's Thrall is misanthropic to the core, lifeless and devoid of love. In the last few years, Tasmania has shown how metal it can be with bands such as Psycroptic and Cauldron causing more cyclones and dust storms than, yeah you guessed it, the Tasmanian Devil. Thrall is no exception and with their new release "Vermin To The Earth", it just absolutely oozes with totality and hatred, beauty and death as well. With a total of seven tracks and not one under the five minute mark, but not one over the ten minute mark, "Vermin To The Earth" is the "perfect imperfection" release of a metalhead's dream. It doesn't drag on relentlessly until you're asleep and it isn't so short that you walk away pissed off.
I've heard comparisons of Thrall to Leviathan and Deathspell Omega, as for once, I can honestly say yes, they are there. "Vermin To The Earth" is Wrest's and Deathspell Omega's love child, but "Vermin..." screams, "Fuck you I can stand on my own!", and I'd also have to agree that yes, this release does stand on it's own two cloven hooves in many ways. Nothing is overdone and no riffs are recycled, each tremolo laced riff is placed perfectly where it needs to be in each song. The vocals are insanely comprehend-able all the while hateful and vicious. Nothing experimental or silly going on here(no bedroom bullshit), just pure homosapien despising black metal.

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