Carnage Inc.
Fury Incarnate

You sort of hear from the name what kind of music to expect from this quartet of guys from a nation one can make many distasteful jokes about. But let us not go down that path, music from India is not the most usual we get to review and this is our first time hearing these guys, and that debut is a five-track EP. It starts at dawn and ends with some delirious ungod, if I understand the track names correctly. Sounds a bit dull to be honest but the cover looks really cool so maybe they have something, although judging by the logo we are treated to some Slayer-like clone.

It is thrash metal of the rather typical kind over five tracks with a fairly typical variation. We have the standard hoarse vocals, the standard riffs and the cheapish sound that is commonplace for this kind of genre. It is not as powerful as some modern bands in the genre, it kinds of sounds like something from the eighties. Maybe that is what thrash metal fans enjoy so if you are one of those who have always wished that time should have stopped sometime long ago it is probably a good album for you. It has five tracks and plays for 23 minutes so at least it is a record that you are done with fast if you don’t find it good and if you think it is good you can play it many times in a short period of time.

I am not really impressed with this EP; it feels rather tired and unimaginative. I am sure some thrash metal fans will find it quite good but if you like myself has a more peripheral interest in this genre it feels just like any other thrash metal album out there, in a way one can claim that it is just another clone of some album that came in the early 80s. Yeah, they do have some fun and own touches but they are way too few to make this little EP shine. And ultimately this becomes a rather uninteresting EP that may or may not work for some but it definitely does nothing for me and I have to colour myself unimpressed by what I hear.

I know, sort of incoherent review but considering the difficult of building up an interest for the album it may not really be that strange. I think the first of the five tracks is the best as it has some individual traits that are quite good but as a whole it is neither good nor bad, just a bit dull.

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