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PROJECT PAIN
Faster Disaster

FA Studio (2022)
Rating: 6/10

Taking influence from nigh on every 80s thrash act, Utrecht’s Project Pain unleashes its first full-length studio album in four years. The follow-up to 2018’s Brothers In Blood is a sturdy, uncompromising thrash assault slightly hampered by the brute vocal chops of Bauke Goudbeek.

Musically, there’s a strong San Francisco Bay Area flavour as the combo rips through a selection of thrash-by-numbers compositions which can’t help but fuse Slayer, Exodus, Forbidden and Sepultura while draped in Ed Repka-styled artwork.

It’s hard to get excited by bands like this even though they give you a good night in, but I do like the steelier, slower tracks such as ‘Mean Metal Machine’ which have a persistent weight and higher pitched vocal melodies to combat the muscular scowls.

Elsewhere, the band surges with the title track in familiar fashion, ‘Submerged’ is strong in its percussive fury, and ‘Feel The Pain’ propels the bass to new heights and chugs along nicely.

Faster Disaster is a competent thrash release although one lacking an identity, but the guys seem more than happy to rattle through these tracks in the hope that your cranium will be caved in by their shovel-headed kill machine.

Neil Arnold

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