Inhuman Nature – Greater Than Death
Inhuman Nature – Greater Than Death
Church Road Records
Release Date: 25/04/2025
Review by Rory Bentley
8/10
You need to do a really good job to get me excited about a Thrash album in 2025. I was never a big Thrash guy outside of some of the bigger names, and even then, I find a lot of them a little bit lame and they make me think of beer guts, battle jackets, and receding hairlines. I realise that sounds a little snobbish and twatty on my part, but I can’t help how I feel. Most Thrash is boring and corny to my ears and represents the stagnant attitude to progress that a lot of the older Metal community have. I’m not gonna name bands and be mean, but you can use your imagination… Acid Reign.
This does not mean that I can’t be seduced by the right band, however. Essentially if you sound like Power Trip I can fuck with you. See also- Enforced and Warbringer amongst others. Inhuman Nature are not doing anything incredibly original, trendy or particularly essential on “Greater Than Death”, but it doesn’t matter because this album absolutely fucks! This is 37 minutes of the nastiest, most intense Metal you’ll hear all year in any genre. Having gnashed and wailed along to this for a good while now, I think I’ve realised that the kind of Thrash I like follows the traditional structure and style but is played with the intensity of Extreme Metal. For me, Thrash should be noticeably gnarlier and rawer than Heavy Metal, otherwise it’s just Judas Priest with worse melodies.
Single ‘Possessed to Die’ sounds like a beefed-up “New Order”-era Testament but produced like a Nails record. Christopher Barling attacks the mic with the aggression of someone in a Grincdcore band, whilst the sickest riffs and grooves pour out of the speakers like pure evil. Elsewhere fans of bringing the riff back but slower will rejoice at the half-time section on ‘Servants of Annihilation’, which got me through some rough cardio sessions, and I fucking hate cardio!
Completing the Thrash tropes tick list in magnificent style is the killer ‘Fortress of Delusion’, which gives big “South of Heaven” energy for the majority of its runtime with crushing, hanging power chords and Satanic tritone licks that build terrifying tension before the back half of the song hits the accelerator and takes an angle grinder to your skull. They’re old tricks, but the execution is too good to overlook!
Ultimately, “Greater Than Death” succeeds in its aim to create maximum audio carnage whilst keeping Thrash sounding vital and virile 40 years after its creation. By veering more towards Obituary than Overkill, they’ve created a savage LP that will delight Hardcore kids as much as Old School Thrashers.
‘Possessed To Die’ Official Stream
TRACKLISTING:
01. From The Shadows
02. Dawn of Inhuman Man
03. Possessed To Die
04. Servants of Annihilation
05. Fortress of Delusion
06. Lines In The Sand II
07. Greater Than Death
08. Mad Man’s Cage
09.The Maze of Eternity
10. Dead and Buried
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