Benefacfor Decease are labelled as an old school Thrash Metal band, and even though I have gone on record numerous times saying how much I hate labels, sometimes you just have to call a spade a goddamn spade because Benefactor Decease are indeed an old school Thrash Metal band.

Formed in Greece in 2007, the band wouldn’t release their debut album, Anatomy of an Angel, until 2013, due in part to going on hiatus between 2010 – 2012, as well as other mitigation factors that saw the original release date for it pushed back two years from 2013.

They would then disappear for another five years, but you can’t keep a Thrash band down, and they resurfaced in 2020 with plans to record and release their second album, Abnormal Attachments, as soon as possible.

Turns out that as soon as possible would be 2025, due to unforseen circumstances, but it is finally here and the question is: was it worth the wait?

Well, honestly, yeah, it was.

Look, Benefactor Decease aren’t going to reinvent the wheel with this album, but if you like old school Thrash Metal then you’re going to lile the eleven tracks on offer across Abnormal Attachments runtime. Fortunately for me, I do like old school Thrash Metal, so this sits alright.

It’s furious, angry, pounding, headbanging stage diving fury cranked up as loud as it possibly can be. It noodles in all the right places, it screams and screeches all the right notes, and the under current is pinned by the right amount of thunderous drums and bass to give anyone who fancies a mosh a decent enough case of whiplash.

There are prog elements in here as well, meaning that Benefactor Decease aren’t afraid to drop almost experimental sections out of the blue when you least expect them, such as on the track Imprisonment Atrocities, but at its heart Abnormal Attachments does exactly what it says on the tin.

Old school Thrash Metal.

You can make the obvious comparisons to the Big 4 from that period, but I also hear the likes of Exodus, Kreator, Overkill, a smidge of Sepultura, Dark Angel, Death Angel, all the damn Angels, and if you’re a fan of any of those bands from that period of time, then you’re going to like Abnormal Attachments.

And if you’re not, then you won’t.

Abnormal Attachments is an old school Thrash Metal album for old school Thrash Metal fans and it makes no apologies for it. Neither should it because sometimes that’s all a record needs to be.

Abnormal Attachments is available now via Xtreem Music.

CHOICE CUT: Acid Stalker.

RATING: 3 OUT OF 5

RATING SYSTEM:

• 0: Fucking Shit
• 1: Shit
• 2: Not Bad Shit
• 3: Pretty Good Shit
• 4: Amazing Fucking Shit
• 5: The Best Shit You Will Ever Hear

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