Year : 2024
Style : Heavy Metal , Thrash Metal
Country : Portugal
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 105 mb
Bio:
Heavy Metal band from Portugal founded in 2011.Back in 1985, bands across the globe started injecting more and more speed into their sound in order to keep up with the competition. Speed Metal as a sub-genre can be thought of perhaps as the purest form of Heavy Metal's second wave. Unlike Thrash, there was no influence of Punk, and the blueprint simply was outdoing JUDAS PRIEST in speed and savagery. To hear a band be able to pull off authentic Speed Metal without coming across as pretentious or derivative is not only refreshing but also hopeful. TOXIKULL have a sound that could have been brewed in a rehearsal space in the mid 1980s, yet the band only formed in 2016 in Portugal.
Album:
Dying Victims Productions is proud to present Toxikull's highly anticipated third album, "Under The Southern Light".Born and raised under the hot & blinding southern light of Portugal's capital Lisbon, Toxikull took off in 2016 and have backed down since: a tumult from the Atlantic, rising to take the world by storm. With two full-lengths, an EP, and a collection of singles, full of incredible guests from bands such as Skull Fist and Crystal Viper under their belts, Toxikull's taunting, fearless attitude has conquered the European heavy metal underground. Now, after speed metal-intensive "Cursed And Punished" in 2019 (which Dying Victims later released on vinyl), they now shift gears with "Under The Southern Light", present amore mature, melodic, yet thankfully still-rough version of themselves.Stomping and strutting with absolutely authentic mid/late '80s swagger, "Under The Southern Light" is an unabashed throwback to the era where heavy metal ruled the airwaves and arenas alike. Some might've doubted whether such Sunset Stripping sounds could come from Toxikull after the all-pistons-pumping speed metal overdrive of "Cursed And Punished", but the ten tracks comprising the 41-minute "Under The Southern Light" are all anthems in the making: larger than life, heavy and spacious, moody and dynamic. Gleaming with their brightest chrome yet, Toxikull here invoke the quintessential likes of '80s Ozzy Osbourne, Dio, Judas Priest, Accept, Saxon, Manowar, Black Sabbath, WASP, Ratt, Scorpions, Picture, Germany's Warlock, America's Icon, France's Sortilège, and many more. But, instead of pastiche or hero worship, "Under The Southern Light" is more so a tableau of Toxikull's personal experiences in the world, whereby they rearrange all these classic archetypes into a laser-focused theme on the duality of living in the southern lands of Europe, in places with so much light, with so much joy and potential, but at the same time, with such scarcity of opportunities, no future, and infested with shadows. "The light that feeds is the same light that burns," says vocalist Lex Thunder. "And the light that makes you dream is the same light that chains you down and keeps you close to the shadows."Bright & burning-hot metal pumping blood from a (metal) heart of darkness, "Under The Southern Light" takes the party down dark, dirty back streets... dare you drink with Toxikull?
Line Up:
Antim "The Viking" - Bass, Vocals (lead) - See also: Booze Abuser, ex-Okkultist
Lex Thunder - Guitars, Vocals (lead) - See also: Midnight Priest
Michael Blade - Guitars
Tommy 666 - Drums
Tracklist:
01. Night Shadows
02. Around The World
03. Under The Southern Light
04. Battle Dogs
05. Ritual Blade
06. Ghost Of A Dream
07. Knights Of Leather
08. Going Back Home
09. They Are Falling
10. Filhos Do Metal
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