Recipients Of Death "Final Fight" Wild Rags Records 1990

Recipients Of Death (What a hell the name should mean?) surely are not a well known band but their thrash fucking rules!! This EP comes at the beginning of a period in which thrash metal passed through a period of crisis but they seem not to care a lot.

Here we can find 5 tracks of pure old style thrash, heavily influenced by hardcore, like early Atrophy or late D.R.I. and also the vocal lines are very similar to those ones in those bands. 

While the title track is total speed, with the second song, in “Behind Closed Doors” there are well structured mid-tempo with some out of the blue more speed parts. Both the mid-paced and the up tempo parts are very good, always catchy. The solos are typical of this genre: not technical, with shreds and so on but who cares in this genre?? I mean, this is a kind of thrash that focuses the attention on the speed and the headbanging, not on the technique.

“Recrimination” is a good up tempo with an excellent bass drum break. The bass sound is always present and the production is very good, old fashioned and perfect for this gene. In this song we have a bunch of fast and short solos that sometimes jump out in some parts. 

“F.O.A.D” song is an instrumental one done by the guitars only. Here we can find lots of good tapping parts too. Very good. This instrumental one ends in the “Democratic Life” song that reminds me a lot Sacred Reich during the “Ignorance” period, from the point of view of the music and lyrics, never childish. This song is a good up tempo with a great break in the middle. 

This is not a well known thrash metal album but it deserves to be heard for his purity and passion.  

Great album, slightly comparable to Slayer at their fastest, vocal department of this band has a nice hardcore-ish edge, like  bands such as Evildead and The Horde Of Torment. The music is indeed quite intense and does not pale in comparisons with even many bigger bands, Recipients Of Death got something right in their music as demonstrated by these powerful recordings. What an album!

And now please help me to stop moving my head!!!.