SKULL FIST

Release Year: 2018
Artist Origin: CAN
Style: loud expressive heavy speed metal

Toronto’s heavy metal squad is finally a full pack now with a permanent drummer, aiming for a simplified, more honest and purified sound on their down-to-earth third full-length, evolving the retro genre with their mid-eighties hard-rockers akin to classic European heavy metal era and vintage Scorpions methods in particular - that immediately wrote off a significant part of their fanbase, but as a matter of fact dudes do not forget neither the shredding speed metal guitar work not the general diversity on the course of nine loud and memorable numbers; yes of course it is a bald and dangerous step out of [or into?] the comfort zone - only time will tell if it was a smart decision to make