Aggression is a thrash metal band from Canada, formed during the mid-eighties thrash explosion. During a four-decade line-up changing and hiatus-riddled career, the band have released five studio albums – ‘The Full Treatment’ (1987), ‘Forgotten Skeleton’ (2004), ‘Fragmented Spirit Devils’ (2016), ‘Feels Like Punk, Sounds Like Thrash’ (2018), and ‘From Hell With Hate’ released in 2022…
…featuring founding member and the only ever present (guitarist) Denis “Sasquatch” Barthe – also now on vocals! The band are completed by (guitarist) Dave “Watts” Watson, (bass player) Kyle “Viking” Hagen, and (drummer) Ryan “Quatchi” Idris. ‘From Hell With Hate’ is packed with twelve songs featuring the band’s trademark speed, ferocity, and, err, aggression! Exploding into life with a barrage of savagery, the album is set alight with ‘I.N.R.I.’ – a ferocity-laden raucous rampage of brutal thrash. Move aside countrymen Annihilator and Exciter – this is much more aggressive. And more in your face too! Aggression set their stall out early for what to expect from the coming fifty minutes. A full-on barrage of savagery is what you can expect – ‘Antichrist Devil Cunt’ picking up the pace and steaming forward at an incredible speed. The cut and thrust of the band’s music are severe and easily capable of lacerating muscle and bone. So beware, listeners – you may need some defence. May I suggest riot gear! ‘Cause hurtling at you at high velocity, ‘Return Of The Frozen Aggressor’ may sting just a little as it crushes you under its immense force – the band delivering cataclysmic devastation of biblical proportions.
The two-minute instrumental ‘The Inner Circle’, is an effects-laden and chilling stroll that’ll send shivers down the spine of every listener, leading into the raging ‘Let’s Burn This Church To The Ground’. The band’s trademark aggression levels are as high as they have ever been – deteriorating with age…no fucking way! Aggression by name and aggression by nature may not be the band’s mantra, but it should be! Hell, I haven’t had this much aggression thrown at me since my last “conversation” with my ex-wife!
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And increasing the pace even more, ‘The Nightstalker’ is ravenous, scoffing at everyone and everything in its path – the more it eats, the more aggressive it becomes. Such savagery is surely unnatural!
‘Precise Execution’ is a second instrumental – this one a thunderous bombardment of brutality acting as an intro to ‘Worthy Of Death’. A devastating display of ferocity, there is an element of traditional heavy metal tucked under the wings of ‘Worthy Of Death’ – if you listen closely enough. The band expanded their musical horizons just a little, attracting metal traditionalists from around the world into the Aggression soundscape. With aggression, brutality, and ferocity at their most intense, ‘One For The Woods’ hurtle through the air like it’s just been shot from a cannon. And lands with so much devastating force only a massive desolate crater remains!
And there’s that traditional metal element once more – the intro to ‘Crows Of Still Creek’ could easily grace a heavy metal album. And to be honest, so could the vocals – the snarling aggression of the album to this point was replaced by a clean performance. Is it still the same singer? I presume so – for the info from the record label didn’t say otherwise. And tucked in one song before the album ender is a bonus offer – the lightning-quick ‘Ouija’. Faster than anything else on the album, ‘Ouija’ is a phenomenally paced headbanger guaranteed to stretch neck muscles further than they were designed for. What an absolute barnstormer! And now for the album ender – the seven minutes plus ‘Left Hand Larceny’, full of thunder, fire and brimstone, as well as more mid-tempo passages that make you think the band have gone on a progressive nature hike. There’s a definite difference in feel here, the band ending their album in an exploratory mood – replete with the core aggression that is their forte.
Overall, a thundering avalanche of aggression, ferocity, and savage brutality, ‘From Hell With Hate’ is a devastating slab of thrash metal.
TRACKLIST
I.N.R.I.
Antichrist Devil Cunt
Return Of The Frozen Aggressor
The Inner Circle
Let’s Burn This Church To The Ground
The Nightstalker
Precise Execution
Worthy Of Death
One For The Woods
Crows Of Still Creek
Ouija
Left Hand Larceny
Aggression: Facebook
Release Year: 2022
Label: Xtreem Music
Category: Album
Country: Canada
Reviewed by Iron Mathew for Frenzy Fire and Metal-Roos.
