EP Review: "Possession" by Overt Enemy

Possession

Thrash metal is a genre of music that, if you ask me, has kind of been done to death. Meaning, all of the territory has been explored.

How often do I hear a thrash record that really takes me there, back,and forward?

It almost never happens anymore. It happens so infrequently that more often than not, I ignore all new thrash bands.

It's a sad state of affairs to me. Thrash/Speed (whatever) was the third wave of metal and that wave took metal in to strange new places.

Overt Enemy though?

They found somewhere they could take the genre of music. It isn't Neo Thrash, or any other cute title, but it's a new take.

Maybe that's not entirely true, but Overt Enemy has breathed life into an older style. It's never about being the fasted or the heaviest. Skwisgaar Skwigelf wouldn't find a home here.

It's not about being the heaviest and most brutal, Nathan Explosion also would be on the outs, but it's about writing a killer song and crushing your enemies and wearing their entrails as a necklace.

RELEASE 8/9/19 BANDCAMP FACEBOOK