By and large, the thrash metal landscape has been something that's been in a confounding state for those who find themselves within its depths. It can be a sound that can be just as captivating as it can be infuriatingly boring. When the right band does come along, however, only good things in the utmost glory are to follow. We've seen a slow but steady trickle of excellence in recent years as thrash does its best to build up a solid foundation of young blood to really show us that the sound still has much to deliver in more ways than one. With their first creation in six years, Chemical Storm primes itself to deliver that very wonder.
While we're compounded by new talent in more ways than one throughout the world of thrash, there can be some acts that don't come around often enough despite being in a corner of the underground that moves at a particularly fast rate. I had heard whispers of Chemical Storm's first EP when it initially came around in 2018 but it was simply one of those releases I never came back around to, and it was not until tonight that I realize how grave of a mistake I was making. Four tracks may not be much considering the six years it has taken for them to come around, but it's in every form that the whole of "Digital Dementia" deserves to be hailed for being the simple and pure example of prime thrash metal that it is right from the beginning. Potent and with more than enough power to back up every given moment of blistering speed that they throw down, Chemical Storm delivers a true whirlwind of thrash that is the embodiment of what the sound has always been representative of. The underground is only perpetuated by acts that continue the glory we've seen beforehand or carving out a path heretofore unseen and unheard. In the case of what Chemical Storm summons for "Digital Dementia", it's clear the former is very much as play here.
This is thrash unfiltered and unfettered. Where many have sought to bring justice to the sound in such a revered corner of what metal has always been capable of, few have been able to deliver on a level like what Chemical Storm has done so here. I can only hope it's not another six years before we hear new material again from Chemical Storm, but it's until then that "Digital Dementia" can scratch the itch for quality thrash that is ever ongoing.
"Digital Dementia" releases on July 23!
LISTEN to an advanced track from "Digital Dementia" on Bandcamp here.
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