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From Hell With Hate

    
       
       
       
     
             
Aggression are a thrash metal band from Canada, formed during the mid eighties thrash explosion. During a four decade line-up changing and hiatus riddled career, the band have released five studio albums - 'The Full Treatment' (1987), 'Forgotten Skeleton' (2004), 'Fragmented Spirit Devils' (2016), 'Feels Like Punk, Sounds Like Thrash' (2018), and 'From Hell With Hate' released in 2022...    
             
...featuring founding member, and the only ever present, (guitarist) Denis "Sasquatch" Barthe - also now on vocals! The band are completed by (guitarist) Dave "Watts" Watson, (bass player) Kyle "Viking" Hagen, and (drummer) Ryan "Quatchi" Idris. 'From Hell With Hate' is packed with twelve songs featuring the bands trademark speed, ferocity, and err, aggression! Exploding into life with a barrage of savagery, the album is set alight with 'I.N.R.I.' - a ferocity laden raucous rampage of brutal thrash. Move aside countrymen Annihilator and Exciter - this is much more aggressive. And more in your face too! Aggression setting their stall out early for what to expect from the coming fifty minutes. A full on barrage of savagery is what you can expect - 'Antichrist Devil Cunt' picking up the pace and steaming forward at an incredible speed. The cut and thrust of the bands music is of a severe nature, easily capable of lacerating muscle and bone. So beware listeners - you may need some sort of defence. May I suggest riot gear! 'Cause hurtling at you at high velocity, 'Return Of The Frozen Aggressor' may sting just a little, as it crushes you under its immense force - the band delivering cataclysmic devastation of biblical proportions.    
             
The two minute instrumental 'The Inner Circle', is an effects laden and chilling stroll that'll send shivers down the spine of every listener, leading into the raging 'Let's Burn This Church To The Ground'. The bands trademark aggression levels are as high as they have ever been - deteriorating with age...no fucking way! Aggression by name, aggression by nature may not be the bands mantra, but it should be! Hell, I haven't had this much aggression thrown at me since my last "conversation" with my ex-wife! And increasing the pace even more, 'The Nightstalker' is ravenous, scoffing everyone and everything in its path - the more it eats the more aggressive it becomes. Such savagery is surely unnatural!    
             
'Precise Execution' is a second instrumental - this one a thunderous bombardment of brutality acting as an intro to 'Worthy Of Death'. A devastating display of ferocity, there is an element of traditional heavy metal tucked under the wings of 'Worthy Of Death' - if you listen closely enough. The band expanding their musical horizons just a little, attracting metal traditionalists from all around the world into the Aggression soundscape. With aggression, brutality, and ferocity at their most intense, 'One For The Woods' hurtles through the air like its just been shot from a cannon. And lands with so much devastating force, only a massive desolate crater remains!    
             
And there's that traditional metal element once more - the intro to 'Crows Of Still Creek' could easily grace a heavy metal album. And to be honest, so could the vocals - the snarling aggression of the album to this point replaced by a clean performance. Is it still the same singer? I presume so - for the info from the record label didn't say otherwise. And tucked in one song before the album ender, is a bonus offering - the lightning quick 'Ouija'. Faster than anything else on the album, 'Ouija' is a phenomenally paced head banger guaranteed to stretch neck muscles further than they were designed for. What an absolute barnstormer! And now for the album ender - the seven minutes plus 'Left Hand Larceny', full of thunder fire and brimstone, as well as more mid tempo passages that make you think the band have gone on a progressive nature hike. There's a definite difference in feel here, the band ending their album in exploratory mood - replete with the core aggression that is their forte.    
             
Overall, a thundering avalanche of aggression, ferocity, and savage brutality, 'From Hell With Hate' is a devastating slab of thrash metal.    
             
             
Review by Iron Mathew Collins    
             
Reviewed for Metal Gods TV    
             
Review is also featured at Metal-Roos    
             
             
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