GRAVE FORSAKEN - Fight To The Death

GRAVE FORSAKEN

Fight To The Death

Soundmass

2010

Fight To The Death is Australian metal group Grave Forsaken's fourth full-length studio album, and coincidentally the first and only album of theirs I have. Picked it up recently, actually. Why wait so long, you ask? Mostly due to money issues (i. e. - the lack of therein), but also not really being all that impressed with the couple of cuts from previous albums that were featured on compilations in the past few years. But, since Fight To The Death seems to be the only Grave Forsaken album on eMusic, and it was only $5 for the entire album download, I went ahead and purchased the sucker.

Then I promptly got my face ripped off when I listened to it.

Wow, what have I been missing? This is a fantastic slab of thrash metal, heavy on the METAL. Chock full of monster riffs, heavy rhythms and a buzzsaw attack that will gut you and hang you out to dry. For the most part, Fight To The Death is a thrash metal extravaganza, bringing to mind comparisons with such previous luminaries as Sacrament, really early Living Sacrifice and Mortification - heavy without falling into the whole "speed for speed sake" rut, with vocals that are more of the classic throaty bark, and a very clear lyrical stance in their Christianity. I say, "for the most part", because the song "Call Me A Dreamer" is more of a, how do I put it...not a ballad, per se, but definitely not one that fits in too well with the rest of the material on here. Only a minor distraction, though, as the rest of the album more than makes up for that hiccup.

Fine. I now shall seek out the rest of this band's catalog. If only eMusic can make the rest of them available. Or something. In the meantime, if you love yourself some really tasty thrash, pick up a copy of Fight To The Death. And then crank that sucker.