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| 4.5 superb | Dethtrasher | March 3rd 09 |
Demolition Hammer was a thrash metal band from the US but they took thrash to the extremes without having death metal influences in their material. Epidemic Of Violence is one of thrash metal?s best kept secrets. This type of thrash really makes you exhausted, and that?s because that the music is incredibly fast, unusually heavy and extreme! The riffs are catchy and powerful, the drums are booming all over the place and the vocals adds extra fuel to an already loose fire. If you can?t find thrash that doesn?t grab you by the balls, then I recommend that you pick up this, because this album will!
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| 4.0 excellent | rc1288 | April 27th 10 |
The most brutal thrash album to ever face the earth. Yes, even more than Darkness Descends an Pleasure to Kil. The drummer is truly a f**cking beast, and every song is filled to the top with double bass (and excellent riffs as well) .To bad their next album would be a failed attempt to jump on the Pantera bandwagon.
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| 4.5 superb | grungethrash91 | April 14th 10 |
With a heavieness that bands like pantera only wish they could have, this band steamroles over almost everything in its path. This band is really close to sadus, and dark angel in speed and brutality, but have a unique sound of their own. Its great to so a thrash album of this quality come out as late as 1992. I think that Although thrash has never, and will never die, the original and classic thrash movement died in 1991-1992. This is one of the last classic thrash albums, as well as one of the best.
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| 5.0 classic | westerndragon | January 14th 24 |
The perfect marriage of raw aggression and a craving to fucking KILL. This is the pinnacle of deathrash.
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| 5.0 classic | Mitch | February 15th 22 |
"SHACKLESANDCHAINANDBLOODYMEAT"
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| 4.5 superb | Elmo | January 12th 22 |
gud ablum
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| 4.0 excellent | Chino smoking it up! | January 22nd 21 |
Probably the fastest and angriest, yet tightest, thrash I'll ever listen.
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| 4.9 classic | Gary STAFF | January 19th 21 |
This is among the most violent records I've ever heard. Fucking desctruction with endless riffstorms.
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| 4.0 excellent | Bedex | July 3rd 19 |
Yes now this is what I was hoping to hear after the demos. The opener scared me a little bit with its wankery bits and fade out ending, but after that it is jam after jam. Prod is far less muffled down and inoffensive than on Tortured Existence, resulting in a much more aggressive and fun record overall. I need to re-listen to it to pinpoint the jams and because this record is super cool, but for now I'd say 2,3,4,5,8,9. 4.2
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| 4.5 superb | Risodo | May 26th 18 |
"Epidemic of Violence" is everything... but everything that Thrash Metal is and is conceptualized as a genre. Bands of the 'Big 4' have never been able to arrive in a mystical and violent place as Demolition Hammer arrived. In my country, if you talk about Thrash, everyone speaks the best known, and the feeling that is left is that of injustice. In a short time of life, i see that the best bands of the genre are the least listened and most overlooked. After all, what is "Master of Puppets" near "Epidemic of Violence"?
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| 5.0 classic | Resident Metalhead Piranha | March 10th 17 |
Demolition brought down the Hammer with their aggressive yet melodic debut, and they up the ante for an even more venomous album in Epidemic of Violence. "Skull Fracturing Nightmare" is an even more impressive opener than their previous effort's ".44 Caliber Brain Surgery;" the drums have a far more impactful yet clear sound, the song's 260bpm pace makes for vicious riffs and vocals, and the more organic separation of the instruments in the production values makes for a more fulfilling attack overall. They even slow down for devastating grooves such as the one found on "Carnivorous Obsession," and they continue to impress with their ability to craft melodic yet technical soloing to contrast the rather downtuned, bottom-heavy pummeling of everything else. "Aborticide" may be among the best thrash/death closers ever, a [barely] five minute roller coaster of hypnotic tempo changes, demonic vocals, wild guitar work, and the machine gun tour de force drumming of Vinny Daze, and it's pure class from start to finish. This violent epidemic of cut-rate thrash is an orgy of destruction and a metalhead's wet dream.
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| 4.0 excellent | AnAutopsy | August 25th 16 |
Solid riffs and solid drumming. It's a shame that the drummer passed away. He provided Demolition Hammer with some of the tightest heart pounding drums in thrash metal.
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| 5.0 classic | ChaoticVortex | March 30th 15 |
The sonic equivalent of the Dresden bombardment. Quite possibly the most ferocious, intense and heavy-as-hell piece of thrash metal ever made and one of my personal favorite records.
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| 4.0 excellent | FirstStrikeIsDeadly | January 18th 15 |
A bit overrated, but still kicks ass if you're looking for sheer brutality.
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| 5.0 classic | Jared Floryan | December 2nd 14 |
On the darker side of reality is a world where morgues exist to replace ordinary homes and every other pitiful destination. As one note as it may sound, you just can't deny an essential album like Epidemic of Violence, hailed as a classic within both the thrash and death metal genres. With its monstrous production values and fast-paced riffs all bunched together alongside Steve Reynolds' intimidating shrieks, the record dances and pisses noxious fumes for absolutely nobody. Demolition Hammer from New York forged a terrifyingly fantastic release here, and if you've gone missing from the carnivorous assaults, then this is perhaps the one thing which will make a peasant such as yourself reconsider.
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| 0.0 | souleater | November 8th 12 |
Thrash as it should be, heavy and fast with a raw production that more than compliments it
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| 0.0 | skeletorissatan | October 21st 12 |
An absolute monster riff fest of an album matched by so few. This is an album that is absolute chaos in its purest form and works so well, being both crushingly heavy and amazingly well written. the guitar work is nearly unmatched by any thrash anywhere, and the vocals are increidble but it is the drumming on this album that stands out the best-the drumming on here is phenomanal and sticks out among so many awesome thrash releases.
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| 0.0 | Atari STAFF | October 6th 12 |
Thrash the way it should be. Raw. Aggressive. Brilliant.
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| 3.0 good | budgie | December 5th 23 |
| 2.5 average | Glovoc | September 30th 23 |
| 5.0 classic | Effigy | June 26th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | KManoc1 | December 19th 22 |
| 5.0 classic | Bren80 | December 5th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | yinei007 | November 11th 22 |
| 4.5 superb | Em1994 | August 11th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jerrad | July 13th 22 |
| 4.5 superb | qt | May 28th 22 |
| 2.5 average | KuyJuk | May 5th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Get Low | February 28th 22 |
| 4.5 superb | Uzumaki | February 16th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Yxag | January 25th 22 |
| 5.0 classic | RoxSta | January 16th 22 |
| 5.0 classic | Josh | November 6th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Spag | May 17th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Hehe | December 14th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ryus | November 25th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | zackseb | November 15th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | mauRo13 | October 20th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Source | July 4th 20 |
| 3.5 great | remi | April 30th 20 |
| 5.0 classic | Mac55 | April 15th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ziggity | April 14th 20 |
| 5.0 classic | pengui | March 26th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | vegaa | January 23rd 20 |
| 4.5 superb | jmal00 | September 19th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tibi | September 4th 19 |
| 5.0 classic | gk1979 | August 16th 19 |
| 5.0 classic | Coast | July 4th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Apathya | February 25th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | TheGuy | January 30th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jurtz | December 20th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | JKoppe | September 17th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Elynna | June 19th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Scuro EMERITUS | May 30th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | elch21 | May 23rd 18 |
| 4.5 superb | Sapee | April 9th 18 |
| 5.0 classic | bSmith | February 11th 18 |
| 5.0 classic | heck | December 8th 17 |
| 5.0 classic | mifzal | November 30th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | em17ah | July 10th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Pon EMERITUS | April 29th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Faenrir | March 22nd 17 |
| 5.0 classic | jayt851 | December 28th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | KyoZM | December 19th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | Wolfe | November 29th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | Brumas | November 27th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | Enzx | September 15th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | walfernu | September 8th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | Scoob | July 18th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | Tom R. CONTRIBUTOR | June 11th 16 |
| 5.0 classic | Ianman | June 7th 16 |
| 5.0 classic | hsb | March 7th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | trve | March 1st 16 |
| 3.5 great | Kirkt95 | February 15th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | brat25 | September 24th 15 |
| 4.5 superb | "Tab" | April 28th 15 |
| 4.5 superb | Jeejee | March 22nd 15 |
| 4.5 superb | Tasty | March 19th 15 |
| 4.5 superb | Abraxas | February 21st 15 |
| 3.5 great | Lassie | January 31st 15 |
| 4.5 superb | Brabiz | December 21st 14 |
| 4.5 superb | Smevin | November 3rd 14 |
| 4.5 superb | Brick76 | October 29th 14 |
| 3.0 good | jmh886 | September 3rd 14 |
| 5.0 classic | Surtur | July 27th 14 |
| 5.0 classic | jseijo | June 30th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | facupm | June 17th 14 |
| 5.0 classic | ivo0 | May 24th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | ffs | April 30th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | seifer | April 10th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | zdebo3 | March 30th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | Weirman | February 11th 14 |
| 5.0 classic | llima | January 29th 14 |
| 3.5 great | adr | January 18th 14 |
| 5.0 classic | Xitiael | October 13th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | CK | October 7th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Shadow17 | September 28th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | Smial | September 1st 13 |
| 5.0 classic | Drpibb | July 5th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | Zeg | June 28th 13 |
| 3.5 great | Trebor. EMERITUS | June 24th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | manosg EMERITUS | May 12th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Geadom | April 19th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | Mike08 | April 15th 13 |
| 5.0 classic | Disco | March 2nd 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Nagrarok | December 27th 12 |
| 5.0 classic | Lynx1 | October 8th 12 |
| 4.5 superb | Solisis | September 15th 12 |
| 4.5 superb | apert | September 12th 12 |
| 4.5 superb | Tib | September 1st 12 |
| 4.5 superb | Zyhaal | April 13th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jerbz | November 13th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | ThrashK | November 12th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Snuron | October 9th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | BigHans | August 15th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | Hawks | August 10th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | s796h | June 9th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | pixmpy | April 15th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | Phate72 | February 19th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | Oceans | November 4th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | Piglet | April 15th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | Set | September 12th 09 |
| 4.5 superb | KILL | September 9th 09 |
| 4.5 superb | rc1277 | May 10th 09 |
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