There is a particular genre of heavy metal which seems to have been explicitly created to appeal to adolescent boys - the cutesy misspelled names (‘deth’), the badly drawn covers with EC Comics style horror mascots and let’s not even start with the lyrical obsession with gruesome subject matters.
In this case, it’s clear that you shouldn’t judge an album by its cover. It kicks in with a blistering pace, with fast, complex and accurate musicianship that wouldn’t be out of place on a 1970s prog album including surprising digressions where they suddenly throw in a bit of Spanish guitar halfway through a track.
The lyrics are also surprisingly on message - ok, so they mainly deal with war and violence but very much from an anti-war stance, talking about the human cost of war (especially religiously inspired conflicts) and there’s a nice dig at ‘military intelligence’ too.
Good stuff all round.
https://album.link/gb/i/1669633920
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