By: Richard Maw
Album Type: Full Length
Date Released:
02/08/2018
Label: Xtreem Music
Total misanthropy. That's what sums up Ravens
Creed. This is masterful thrash/death metal for people who hate everything
and/or like Venom
“Get
Killed or Try Dying” CD//DD
track listing:
1).
Intro – Unrelenting Extremity
2).
Dead Bird on Winchester Street
3).
Death on a Rival
4).
Get Killed or Try Dying
5).
Hymn or Hearse
6).
Off with their Legs
7).
Treacherous Rector
8).
Rats Beneath Our Feet
9).
Remember the Hammer
10).
Sound of Sirens
11).
When a Deaf Man Goes Blind
12).
The Trauma of Being Haunted
13).
Outro
The Review:
Ravens Creed have always been a feral
and vicious beast, but this album sees them return with a new level of
aggression and power. After the knockout one-two combination of “Albion Thunder” and then “The Power”, their third record “Ravens
Krieg” suffered a little in terms of songs. No such issue here: once again
it is just wall to wall riffs from Iron Monkey's Steve Watson. The songs all
clock in short and are tightly wound.
Rod
Boston and Jay
Graham supply a lock tight rhythm section and Al Osta's sandpaper growl
compliments this full metal racket perfectly. You get thirteen tracks, all
around the two or three minute mark, non stop thrash/death metal with no
pretensions whatsoever.
What
are Ravens
Creed in this for? World domination? No. They hardly play any gigs,
aren't interested in promoting themselves and are unlikely to trouble the
promoters of Download any time soon. Extremity, then? Pushing the musical
boundaries? Not really- there are really catchy elements to most tracks here
and the riffs are the work of a true master craftsman. I can only conclude that
it's just pure hatred keeps them going.
Total
misanthropy. That's what sums up Ravens Creed. That and pun ridden song titles,
of course. Masterful thrash/death from the East Midlands by way of West Yorkshire. For people who hate everything and/or
like Venom.
“Get Killed or Try Dying” is available to
pre-order/buy here
