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SADISTIC MESSIAH
Dehumanizing Process

Thrash Or Death (2022)
Rating: 8/10

This is a good one, a straight up nasty thrash record from Brazil that comes three years after the band’s impressive debut album High Voltage Demons.

Sadistic Messiah is the work of guitarist Rhodz Costa and vocalist Angelcorpse, and the thing that immediately stands out here is the guitar tone, particularly on slower passages. There’s a real doomy buzz to the design but in every aspect there’s a snapping Sadus-type of assault fused with a classic Kreator niftiness and dryness.

The album – consisting of eight tracks – is brim full of melody too though with the axe work tearing through the speed before gnashing chugs overlap those gutsier and livelier whips. Strangely, I get flashes of Carcass at their most metallic. Maybe it’s those vocal slurps and that interesting blend of death / thrash, but hey, there’s even classic Metallica, Testament and the likes hidden behind those sneering vocals so, in reality, Sadistic Messiah is a lethal yet well-constructed thrash act born in the 80s due to its network of crunchiness and with that underground feel too.

There’s nothing glossy or mechanical about Dehumanizing Process and it remains savage throughout while never fully wavering from its melodious streaks. You’ll hear a lot of classic Sepultura too as the band drifts into black-thrash dervishes that only the Brazilian scene could master.

Dehumanizing Process offers a far better cover design from the 80s styled debut too, and the mysticism matches the music contained. It’s certainly not original, but the marriage of hostile hooks and devilishly well-structured barrages coupled with the scathing vocal blasts results in an excellent thrash metal workout so demonically blessed that for once there’s an album that gives me faith in the all too formulaic scene once again.

Neil Arnold

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