Flaming Wrekage-Terra Firma Album review. FFO; Searing and dynamic thrashy death metal.

 

Flaming Wrekage-Terra Firma Album review. FFO; Searing and dynamic thrashy death metal.

Album number four and the band are definitely on this release and the previous, producing albums that echo their killer and fierce live performances. Terra Firma is nine tracks of relentless death metal influenced thrash or thrash-influenced death metal. Whatever you wish to label this, it is solid and engaging. You need a bath after the sheer filth of the four opening bangers, Witch Hunt, Nightmare Architect, Hell on Earth and No Gods-we are talking 20 cans of Redbull paced psychotic and intense death thrash combined with brilliant vocals(backing vocals are wild also), insanely aggressive riffs and bombastic drums and bass. Blood and Bone is more moody in a Swedish melodic death metal way, but has more space than the crazed first four tracks, that space works to their benefit. Ghosts was one of the first singles and rightly so, a violent and gripping track that is an album highlight and tonal twists and a frantic tempo mixed with tension. Paralysis is one of the release's more tangential tracks and is quite proggy and adventurous. Both Enduring Decay and Our Own Blood are epic and solid closers for this album. It's a raging album, but it's marginally not as solid as Cathedral of Bones(so I am talking an 8/10 album vs an 8.5/10), so not a remote diss to this incredible band. Everything is dynamic, aggressive and catchy, but I think they need to lean into more European vibes I hear in the layers of their sound; Kreator,and Sodom particularly. Being album number four, no one is asking for a change in formula but there needs to be more variation across an album. But it is a worthwhile ripper of a purchase and guaranteed they will rip your head off live, every single time.
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