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KORROSIVE
Katastrophic Creation

CDN (2024)
Rating: 7.5/10

Nine years after forming, Canadian thrashers Korrosive releases its third full-length album, Katastrophic Creation. Rad Zarei (vocals) is the only remaining original member and he is joined on this latest release by Derek Solomos (guitar), Jack Neila (guitar and bass) and Kaveh Afshar (drums), while Nick Radlovic (bass) is the latest recruit although he doesn’t appear on the album.

It was Korrosive’s 2018 demo Destroyed! which caught my attention and although I’ve not necessarily been loyal in following the band I was impressed by their 2022 album Toxic Apokalypse.

Katastrophic Creation lines up with eight tracks, a handful of which feel overlong, but even so there’s no denying the potency as ‘In The Name Of Destruction’ rips your ears off to Zarei’s angry prose; “The final pieces needed for another fucking war… mangled bodies scattered in the fog… tortured voices, symphonic screams….”. It’s serious and deadly thrash, in fact I’d go as far to say that Korrosive is one of the most hostile acts out there, grinding together a violent mix of, say, Krisiun and classic Kreator but with crisp modern dynamics.

A majority of the songs are battering rams which throttle you within minutes, like ‘Kataclismo Inminente’ and ‘Ashes From Atomic Dust’, but there are streaks of stunning serrated melody too, and I refer to the latter with its swirling solo work. The steady barrages are immense juggernaut structures bristling with percussion that acts as a gnashing machine finding its hellish rhythm. Everywhere you lend an ear is a landscape of snarling steel to behold, a metallic frenzy of hideous vocal sneers and ruthless riffs.

The whole look and feel of this album suggests something intricate and cosmic, and yet when you hear tracks like ‘Under A Vicious Sky’ and ‘Maelstrom’ you realise just how straightforward the mechanics are here with no unnecessary frills or deviations just intense bludgeoning with an overtly metallic edge.

The sharpness and ice cold coating means that Korrosive is not thrash metal to happily nod along to. Instead, the sound harbours a venomous but not quite angular menace, the end result being a destructive and somewhat mechanical cauldron of glistening yet unfriendly fury and searing pistons of poison. Expect severe ear lacerations.

Neil Arnold

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