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EXTINCT
Incitement Of Violence

MDD (2024)
Rating: 6/10

Although Incitement Of Violence is only the second full-length platter from these German thrashers since forming in 2003, it’s a timely reminder of how potent the Teutonic thrash scene is. Enjoy Extinct before they, err, become extinct again because this is a rousing, war torn effort bristling with angst and dripping like scorched steel.

As epitomised on numerous tracks, the posse plays a volatile thrash that’s part German efficiency and part Bay Area groove, but none of it greatly differs from the bands distant 2013 debut, Pain Palace. Extinct leans more towards a contemporary hostility for the most part, especially on the blazing tantrums of ‘Annihilation By Words’ and ‘Of No Account’ – with its Sodom flair – and the raging ‘IIwast’.

The band maintains a youthful aggression in its barrages as gunfire rips the flesh, bombs explode in your face and tanks flatten your hopes. I call this “warfare thrash”, scowling retaliatory spikes of menace with only occasional intricacy but mostly in your face. The only colour this sort of experience promises is the flicker of fire at the forefront of all that is pallid and ashen. There are occasional shifts towards Slayer and some good chugging moments too, as evidenced on ‘Mental Disorder’.

This is still a textbook thrash opus riddled with melodic yet clinical nuances, and while it’s not a record one can really warm to, it is a release stocked with ammunition should the enemy come knocking.

Neil Arnold

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