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More face-smashing thrash from Chemicide, following 2022's Common Sense. It's old school, mid-80s-like crossover-tinged thrash and it sounds pissed off. Forget about the "party thrash" vibe that's very common with similar thrash, here the lyrical content is serious and the delivery is angry. There are some more lighthearted bits here and there, but overall it just sounds serious and violent as fuck. Meaty guitars, tasty, razor-sharp riffs, pounding drums that could nail a steel beam—the works. The album just got better with every listen. 2025 is a good year to be pissed off, and this is like the soundtrack for that. The CD version contains a surprising cover of Metallica's "72 Seasons," shortened roughly by half, and my thoughts after hearing it were that this is almost what the song could have sounded like if Metallica had recorded it in the '80s, and that Chemicide should release their own version of the 72 Seasons album. I think that says what needs to be said about the cover. The second CD bonus track is a cover of Discharge's "Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing." I'm not familiar with the original but it sounds good, and if you don't like it, then it's over quickly at just 1:20 in length. Solid, powerful, violent and visceral thrash all over. Oh yeah.