Artillery - Khomaniac

In this chaotic world, sometimes it’s best to keep things simple. Who has time for frills or fuss these days? I find the best alternative is cosying up in your favourite chair with a soothing cup of hot tea, maybe a pair of comfortable slippers, while a 90s thrash metal band obliterates all the tiny bones in your ears singing about nuclear weapons. It’s the sort of unpretentious peace and quiet that classical music stations don’t aspire to enough.

Who better for the task than a band named after weapons themselves? You don’t call yourself Artillery if the idea is something outside of the realms of absolute no nonsense. The Danish thrash pace-setters have stayed the course since as early as 1982; while others faffed about with falling out with everybody and not playing their instruments at a hundred thousand miles per hour, Artillery were laying out arrows and slinging out riffs to set the European thrash blueprint. What that provides you with, other than a neckache, is a classic thrash sound with the bells and whistles cleanly booted off. No fuss, no mess. Well, other than your cup of tea slung at the wall. I hope you weren’t saving that mug for the King coming round. 

While it would have been difficult to find an Artillery track that doesn’t evoke that early thrash rudiment, Khomaniac is a double-time dose of ass-kicking that will knock you clean through the wall into next week. The weather forecast calls for riffs, folks, and we hope you didn’t bring your umbrellas.