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Whipstriker Cry Of Extinction CD Review

February 9, 2025
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Underground Brazilian speed metal legends Whipstriker are back, baby! Well, they've been releasing splits and even a box set over the last several years, but 'Cry of Extinction' is the band's first full length album in seven years. Releasing on March 7, 2025 on Hells Headbangers Records, the band sounds as vicious and aggressive as ever. While continuing to embrace their influences of bands like Venom, Motorhead, Discharge and Speedwolf, this album shows a little more range in that while heavy, not every song is a stomp to your throat.


While tracks like "Cry of Extinction", "Rush of Fury", "Heartrippers" and "Khaalou's New World" are the prized speed/blackened thrash metal that we all came here for, looking at "Six-Eyes Crow Division" and "WWVI", they have more of a NWOBHM composition and while not as technically fast, are still as heavy as anything the album has to offer. Quite possibly the two most interesting tracks are the final two offerings in a scorching rendition of Destruction's "Satan's Vengeance" and the 10-minute epic closer in "Military Scum". The latter is a more mid-tempo banger that keeps the NWOBHM feeling alive in conjunction with its heavy and dynamic riffs that close the doors fittingly on this hostile arsenal of aggression.

~TJ

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