Hellfire- Bleed for the cause
Thrash has recently gone through a revival, bands like Municipal Waste, SSS, Evile and Toxic Holocaust enjoying a renewed interest in the scene. With Hellfire, you get an excellent example of how we plucky Brits are more than capable of matching the Yanks at their own game. Citing Raging Speedhorn and Medulla Nocte as their influences you can imagine these guys want to crack open your skull with a tyre jack and leave you dead by the roadside and that is exactly what they do. Hailing from Staffordshire, a small mining town in between Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent you would think they’d be singing about the hard, unappreciated life of a miner and of course the dreaded Black Lung! What you actually get is out and out misanthropic bile, spewed forth at a constant pace, enough to make your brain split in two. Imagine elements of early Slayer, Lamb of God and add a pinch of Hardcore and you get a vulgar display of power! Hellfire will make your ears bleed for the cause, too right. This is out and out, balls to the wall aggression with hit man style execution, an impressive record from what must be the best-kept secret in the underground metal scene. Produced to devastating effect, Bleed for the Cause is a professional, sound release that should lift Hellfire into the limelight as one of the best British metal bands around today.