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SPEED HELL
Speed Violent Attack EP

Self-released (2024)
Rating: 6.5/10

Damn, the cover artwork of this EP looks like a rip of 80s Belgian band Warhead and their 1984 opus Speedway. Anyway, this Argentine act does exactly what it says on the tin and provides zipping black speed metal, nothing more and nothing less.

It’s difficult to get excited by such basic outbursts but there is plenty of energy nonetheless from a band so desperate to channel 1983. You get streaks of Bathory, Venom, Destruction, Bulldozer, Possessed and flashes of second wave black metal too alongside a raw and vintage South American old school style. The riffs are nippy and rust-ridden, the vocals spiteful rasps and the drums and bass sniping and whipping.

The title track is, as you would expect, derived straight from Bathory’s bathtub – the man behind the vocals, guitar and bass being Rolfi 666, with drums provided by Tony Rot. It’s an enjoyable flash in the pan whereby the remaining two tracks – ‘Nekrovomit’ and ‘Alcoholocaust’ – could have featured on any number of band’s releases over the last few years because there are hordes of acts churning out similar drunken devil worshiping muck.

The EP is only ten minutes long so give it a go, even if much of it gallops in satanic hyper fashion like a black stallion on a treadmill. Satan laughing spreads his wings, so said Black Sabbath, but with these sort of speed metal releases Lucifer is laughing at them rather than with them.

Neil Arnold

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