Year : 2013
Style : Thrash Metal
Country : Germany
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 125 mb
Bio:
The Thrash Metal band PROTECTOR was formed in the summer of 1986 in the German city of Wolfsburg, and by the end of the year they had recorded their first demo. In the eight years that followed, the band recorded two EPs and four LPs. They played live all over Europe, with, among others, SODOM, KREATOR, WEHRMACHT, NAPALM DEATH and TANKARD. During the first years of it's existence, PROTECTOR went through several line-up changes.In 1994 the band decided to take a one year break. When that year had passed only drummer Marco Pape was motivated enough to continue to work with PROTECTOR, and did so together with three new bandmembers. This version of PROTECTOR existed until 2002/2003.By the end of 2005 former PROTECTOR vocalist Martin Missy, together with swedish musicians Carl-Gustav Karlsson (drums - among others GRIEF OF EMERALD and MASTEMA), Michael Carlsson (guitar – MASTEMA) and Mathias Johansson (bass – vocals in SUICIDAL WINDS and AXIS POWERS), formed the PROTECTOR coverband MARTIN MISSY AND THE PROTECTORS. They played live all around Europe until late 2011, when they decided to officially reactivate PROTECTOR, and record a demo. In May 2013 the band went into the Sunlight Studio and recorded a new full lengh album called ”Reanimated Homunculus”. The album was released by High Roller Records on friday the 13 september 2013.
Album:
It's a refreshing thing, have a new Teutonic thrash album in the old style from a band that is not only started when the style was fresh, but is also one that actually originated from Germany. Not to knock the continuing onslaught of younger Greek, Italian, Brazilian and American bands that discovered a time period where the lines between death and thrash metal were not so clearly drawn, but there is definitely something to be said for a band that had first hand experience. To be clear, Protector didn't make nearly the same splash in the 80s thrash metal craze as their forefathers Kreator, to whom they share the most in common with musically, but they did manage a collection of formidable offerings in the late 80s and early 90s, and after about 2 decades of studio silence (excluding a couple of demos), they've taken advantage of the current rekindling of the flame of thrash metal and picked things up as if they'd never left.This is the violent, red to the core rage that Detroit's own Nocturnal Fear has been gunning for in the past 10 years, but with a less mechanistic and more vintage character that would hint at something along the lines of Morbid Saint's "Spectrum Of Death". It comes in hacking away like a frenetic slasher movie villain, leaving little time for rest apart from the occasionally slowed down middle section, most of which venture into territory similar to that of old school Death. The guitar tone is a bit on the tinny and top-heavy side, and the same general story holds true in the drums, which are mixed to maximize the cymbal hits and Martin Missy's sepulchral ravings, which have a heavy hint of Angelripper with a side order of ultra-blackened barks which are nasty enough to pass for mid 90s Gorgoroth. It stops just a tiny bit shy of being a Demolition Hammer emulation, but it shares a similarly relentless character to that of "Epidemic Of Violence" and even throws in a few blast beats here and there.There are times where it gets difficult to separate this album from an outright blackened thrash affair, though it still holds a bit more in common with Kreator's "Pleasure To Kill" despite the occasional hints at an early 90s black metal influence. Particularly in the case of "Lycopolis", the blast beats tend to overpower the song and come off as a slightly higher-fidelity answer to "A Blaze In The Northern Sky", complete with the quasi-death metal breakdowns that aren't quite muddy sounding enough to pass for what was going on in Stockholm, New York or Florida in the early 90s. But for the most part, this album is represented by up tempo and punchy thrashers like "Sons Of Kain", "Road Rage" and "The End" that really bring home the speed in a manner akin to "Persecution Mania", whereas the slightly slower and groovier "Birth Of A Nation" and "Holiday In Hell" definitely bring about as much of an Exodus feel to the riff work as it does a blackened nastiness in the vocals.Despite the field being a bit crowded at present, Protector definitely have a lot to offer the nostalgic old school death/thrasher who remembers the mold that was broken by albums like "Seven Churches" and "Morbid Visions" and then saw this newer sound erupt into its own impressive scene in Germany while having an equally deep impact on what would come out of Florida, and then Sweden on the death metal side of the coin. It showcases a sound that has come full circle and returned to a raw, primitive, yet still highly impressive formula befitting the rage and fury that goes into the darker side of the 80s thrash sound. Sure, the image of reanimated zombies crawling out of a landscape adorned with skulls and bones is a bit tried and true, but a solid concept definitely bears repeating, and in this album's case it goes well beyond being merely bearable.
Line-Up:
Martin Missy - Vocals (1987-1989, 1989, 2011-present) - See also: Obrero, Zombie Lake, ex-Phidion, ex-Talion, ex-Inzest, ex-Ruins of Time, ex-Energyant, ex-Martin Missy and the Protectors, ex-R.A.U.
Michael Carlsson - Guitars (2011-present) - See also: ex-Mastema, ex-Sadistic Grimness, ex-Martin Missy and the Protectors
Mathias Johansson - Bass, Vocals (backing) (2011-present) - See also: Axis Powers, Suicidal Winds, ex-Martin Missy and the Protectors
Carl-Gustav Karlsson - Drums (2011-present) - See also: CON (live), ex-Author of Pain, ex-Mastema, ex-Sarcastic, ex-Third Stone from the Sun, ex-Grief of Emerald, ex-M Ä B E, ex-Martin Missy and the Protectors
Tracklist:
01. Sons of Kain 04:03
02. Deranged Nymphomania 03:17
03. Holiday in Hell 04:00
04. Reanimated Homunculus 04:29
05. Birth of a Nation 05:04
06. Lycopolis 03:39
07. Road Rage 02:54
08. Antiman 05:03
09. The End 03:41
10. Calle Brutal 01:25
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