Don’t I love when an album commences with a straight ahead yell that goes directly through the fan’s ears plus a frantic drumming that comes from the very depths of hell?
Yeah, I do.
That’s exactly how “The Darkening“ commences with first kill “Poltergeist,” a track clearly inspired on the darkest early Extreme Metal music from the 1980s. Disarray managed perfectly to get the spirit of early Darkened Thrash and Death Metal. Some tracks are more violent as the aforementioned opening act, but others are more cadenced as “Lord of Lies“ keeping the spirit of Thrash Metal alive. By the way, it is “Mass Abuse of Power” that keeps the spirit alive and well delivering the eaxct spanking and mayhem bands used to back then. Plus to that insane and despaired vocalsand, voilà, an album to be praised as one of the most insane albums of this year.
“The Darkening” is an EP with three brand new tracks, a re-recorded version of the title track from debut album “Evil is Reborn,” and two recorded alive. Disarray got the spirit of the most virulent and vicious forms of Extreme Metal music made in the 1980s inspired on the best spankings ever made. A story the three new tracks tell the fan plus the re-recorded “Evil is Reborn,” a more cadenced track that got the groovy spirit of Thrash Metal. The alive tracks show that the band can be as virulent and violent live in action. I mean, even more as the drums sound unstoppable.
Some albums just feel like home, and I’ve got to tell “The Darkening” is one of them because it brings back that raw and high-adrenalized Thrash Metal sound. It’s an album with all its heart and soul, more heart than soul, I guess, because it feels like from the deepest bottom of it.
Disarray “The Darkening” was released on October 24th via Jawbreaker Records.
Track Listing:
- Poltergeist
- Lord of Lies
- Mass Abuse of Power
- Evil is Reborn
- Deafening Sound (Live)
- Forbidden of Speech (Live)
Watch “Lord of Lies” official lyric video here:
I’m just a lucky guy who has chosen metal to live with for a long time. Metal changed my life for good. It made me more confident and stronger. Metalheads are naturally far away from the mass mediocrity and don’t accept impostures from anybody else. Metal is more than music, it’s a life changing oportunity!