(written by Islander)

We had an album review earlier today that compared the band’s music to a dish prepared by a Michelin-starred chef. What’s coming next is like a horde of exultant demons blasting through those restaurant doors on full-throttle Harleys and blow-torching all the diners for the greater glory of Satan.

Sedate and sophisticated or inventively avant-garde, this is is not. It’s hell-raising heavy metal, evil and electrifying to the core, pure-grade adrenaline served through the ears. But that doesn’t mean this sulfurous song is slap-dash or sloppy — far from it. It deserves its own chef’s kiss (along with a fuckload of horns thrown to the sky).

What we’re talking about, as you can see, is a song named “Mark of the Beast” from the devil-spawned Italian rampagers in Hellcrash. It’s off their third album Inferno Crematörio, which is set for release on May 23rd by Dying Victims Productions, and we’re presenting it through a lyric video. Continue reading »

It’s time for a rude ‘n’ crude celebration of filth, fury, and fun! Plus sickness, sleaze, and slaughter!

We stole some of those words, but we endorse them because they well-suit the music on Demonic Assassination, the hell-raising second album by the infernal Italian deviants in Hellcrash which is racing toward a lavish March 24 release by Dying Victims Productions.

Those who’ve indulged in the band’s first album Krvcifix Invertör know that they followed in the cloven-hooved footsteps of such groups as Bulldozer, Slayer, and Venom, whipping up a gnashing and pulse-pounding convulsion of blackened thrash and speed metal. Those ingredients still make the fuel for the new album, but with even more variety and an even tighter execution in the sound. As proof, we’re premiering a song from the album named “Graveripper“. Continue reading »