Blood Feast: Chopped, Sliced and Diced (2018)

Blood Feast is a seriously underrated thrash metal band who came a bit late to the scene.  They dropped their first full-length, Kill for Pleasure, in 1987 right at the height of thrash metal's popularity.  Unfortunately, due to their much more brutal approach to thrash, they were looked over.  They put out one more full-length (the excellent Chopping Block Blues) in 1989 then went on hiatus until reuniting in 2007.  They have recently begun putting out new music, including this EP last year.

The only returning member of Blood Feast still with the band is guitarist Adam Tranquill.  But the band sounds the same as they did in their original incarnation, that is to say, fucking savage.  This is some absolutely brutal thrash metal with razor-sharp riffs and sneering, angry vocals.  The album lasts less than half an hour, but it is sure to leave the listener breathless as it steamrolls over them. 

I only have very minor complaints.  Vocalist Chris Natalini tends to sound a little shrieky at times, which does not always fit the music well.  It would sound better with more of a death metal-style singer personally.  The other one is that the live track at the end ("By the Slice", which is not about pizza) sounds out of place.  I know EPs generally do not follow any particular convention, but I would have preferred another studio track.

This is the third release I have picked up by Blood Feast, and I love every single one of them.  This type of brutal thrash is absolutely underrated.  This band would fit in well on a play list with Rigor Mortis, Demolition Hammer, Morbid Saint and others.