Thrashfire - Thrash Burned the Hell
This band is from Turkey, but if you just had the audio to go on, you’d swear that they’re German… Kreator/Destruction worship abounds as Thrashfire blazes through 12 songs of speedy Thrash that could have come straight off of a Teutonic Thrash tribute compilation. Did I say Thrash enough times there? I probably did. The thing is, that’s what Thrashfire is all about. If you’re looking for influences other than Thrash, you’re not going to find any here. One of the problems that Thrashfire has is that they operate primarily in the high speed realm. Most, if not all, of their songs sound similar. Outside of the different guitar solos, this could easily be twelve different versions of the same track. The main culprit is the drumming. When you’re blasting away through a dozen tracks, unless you do some serious tempo changes between them, it gets very hard to distinguish between songs. Some of the songs have stupid titles and lyrics, but given that the band is from Turkey and shamelessly aping German Thrash, I’d say that they’re going to get a free pass from me on that. My German is bad and my Turkish is worse. Unless you’re a native English speaker or you have some seriously homoerotic lyrics (accidentally, hopefully…), I’m generally not going to deduct for bad lyrics. I’ll give them credit for trying and for having some decent influences. Being a Thrash band from Turkey isn’t likely to be the easiest thing these days, particularly with the country slowly becoming more and more Islamic. The Sharia Police doesn’t take too kindly to Metalheads. Still, a band ultimately lives or dies by the quality of their music. This is good but not great. There is a ton of potential here but they just have to find their sound.
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