Release Date: October 18th 2024. Record Label: Svart Records. Format: CD/DD/Vinyl
Burning Savage - Track Listing:
1. Alpha Diabolos
2. Imminent Evil
3. Burning Savage
4. Lethal Revenge
5. Black Magic Whore
6. Torrents Of Black Blood
7. Ultra Death
8. Bitchkrieg
9. Ethereal Termination
10. Phantasma
11. Tornado Of Blades
12. Omega Therion
Members
Affe ”Phantasma” Piran - Vocals
John ”Zeke” Finne - Guitar
Frans ”Cult” Utterström - Drums
Edde ”Shit” Aftonfalk - Bass
Lukas ”Spine” Häger - Guitar
Review
Sometimes I like to step away from the music I usually promote here and check out music that I loved back in earlier years as a metal head. I was into Thrash Metal, Speed Metal and Death Metal big time back in my late teens and early twenties. So I was asked recently if I would review Obnoxious Youth’s new album Burning Savage and I jumped at the chance. As I was a fan of their previous two albums The Eternal Void and Disturbing The Graves.
The album continues the heavy and pissed off style of Thrash Metal and Speed Metal the band are known for. However, the band isn't afraid to add a sense of aggressive melody into their overall sound with moments of Classic Hard Rock and Psych Rock appearing along the way. They remind me of KVELERTAK in many ways with how both bands blend so many different genres together and offer a highly original style of HEAVY METAL that’s downright catchy and brutally thrilling at the same time.
Members of Obnoxious Youth have played in or currently play in bands such as Vorum, Undergång, Endtime, Reveal!, Morbus Chron, Century, Tøronto, Degial, Begravningsentreprenörerna, Entombed and No Future. Though don’t be expecting to hear a straightforward EXTREME METAL album as Burning Savage is anything but that.
Burning Savage may have a Blackened Metal identity but its creative soul is PURE and BRILLIANTLY entertaining at the same time. The vocals are on the extreme side with the music mostly powered through punishing beatdowns and fast-paced grooves that seem quite chaotic when first listening to the album. However, there is a ton of first rate creativity going on throughout the whole album with moments of Psych Rock, Prog Metal and Electronic beats that’s played against the non-stop frantic and deeply unapologetic sounds of Thrash Metal and Speed Metal.
Obnoxious Youth may live upto the classic and outdated tropes of Heavy Metal but they do this with real charm, conviction and huge talent. They have a ZERO FUCKS given attitude which mostly appears within their lyrics and the fucked up insanity of their music which is downright genius in places especially on tracks such as Alpha Diabolos, Imminent Evil, Burning Savage, Torrents Of Black Blood, Tornado Of Blades and Omega Therion.
With brief outbursts into Punk Rock lore and Occult Metal themes, Obnoxious Youth have really outdone themselves with Burning Savage with this being their most technically impressive and wonderfully entertaining album yet. The whole sound of the album will be too outlandish for some but for the majority of others Obnoxious Youth have crafted a brilliantly surreal album that allows them to have such a unique voice within the realm of HEAVY METAL.
Words by Steve Howe
Thanks to For The Lost PR for the promo.
Burning Savage will be available to buy on CD/DD/Vinyl via Svart Records from Friday October 18th 2024.
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