Dead Tree Seeds are a thrash metal band from France formed in 2009, releasing their debut album ‘Seeds Of Thrash’ in 2013. During the band’s early years, they performed many times in France, developing their own scintillating style of thrash metal – a cracking mix of such legendary bands as Exodus, Kreator, Sepultura, and the Big Four. Throughout their career, the band has been dogged by constant line-up changes, with only drummer and founding member Alex Prudent, the only constant. The band’s sophomore album ‘Push The Button’ was released in 2020…
…and was an explosive romp of rough, tough, and gruff thrash. The band’s new release – the four-song E.P. ‘Back To The Seeds’ – brings forward three songs from their 2013 debut, accompanied by an unreleased single. All four songs have been re-recorded, confirming that Dead Tree Seeds are just as angry, aggressive, and explosive as they have ever been. I didn’t have the pleasure of listening to the (re-recorded) songs in their original form, so I’m just gonna review them now as if they’re brand new – although the E.P. does begin with a brand new song ‘1796’. And immediately, the heavy groove is incredible – ‘1796’ blending in brutal thrash as it progresses, yet that groove remains! Fucking A!
After such a pulsating start, Dead Tree Seeds pick up the pace and set a blistering speed with ‘Set The Fire’. Rough, tough, and gruff thrash metal, with echoes of Metallica, Slayer, and Exodus – a cracking blend that sees ‘Set The Fire’ wham, bam, and slam listeners with a brutality so brutal, local emergency services are gonna be overrun with broken boned and bleeding patients.
And if you thought the first half of this four-song E.P. was heavy, you ain’t heard nothing yet! ‘Torture And Rage’ inflicts more savagery than the previous two songs combined. The gruff vocals are venomous, the guitar riffs razor-sharp, and the drums, bludgeoning – resulting in one hell of an ear-bashing… The good kind though!
Bringing this ferocious four-song barrage to a close is a new anthem for all the thrashers across the world to party to – ‘Homage To Thrash’ a fast and furious gallop of all-out thrash. The fastest of all the songs on offer, ‘Homage To Thrash’ is gonna drive the mosh pits fucking insane, with walls of death forming everywhere. What a breathless twenty minutes!
Overall, a barrage of savagery that is decidedly brutal, offering an aural bashing of the most pleasurable kind.
TRACKLIST
1796
Set The Fire
Torture And Rage
Homage To Thrash
Dead Tree Seeds: Facebook
Release Year: 2022
Label: Music-Records
Category: Album
Country: France
Reviewed by Iron Mathew for Frenzy Fire, Metal Gods TV, and Metal-Roos.
