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EXXECUTOR
Into Hellish Domains

Fucking Kill (2025)
Rating: 7/10

Everything about this debut full-length release screams aggression, even the record label it’s on sounds hostile! Exxecutor (yes, with two x’s) waste no time in obliterating ears with an environment best described as scorching.

The opening title track rips into your chest cavity like a scolding bolt from a flame thrower. The vocals from guitarist Faceripper (sounds like a nice chap) snap with a vintage Teutonic force, snarling and zipping like a skidding lightning strike that leaves just a pair of smoking hi-top trainers in its nostalgic wake.

It’s no surprise that this venomous trio raps the knuckles like early Kreator, streaking into the ear canals like barbed wire. Hailing from Germany certainly gives Exxecutor that extra level of precise spite as ‘Speedraiser’ does exactly what you’d expect with a title like that. Drummer Aplasthor (aka Aaron Joffroy; Stallion) is a beast behind the skins, feverishly slapping away and dishing out the devilish tirades alongside bass demon ElBasso.

At just over 20 minutes in length, Into Hellish Domains reminds me of a wasp living out its last minutes, frantically zapping everything in its wake to the soundtrack of its own screams. ‘Fast Black Death’ hits with the subtlety of a poison dart to the brain, a direct hit of fizzing axe work that skates on thin ice yet leaves a trail of fire in its path. The hilariously titled ‘Eternal Goatfuck’ is similarly mayhemic although the colliding gallops of bass and drum are fiendishly punky.

You can dive into the boiling melting pot of this album and while not very deep you can expect its spicy layers to contain sprigs of old Bathory, Venom, Sodom, and even the steely glint of old Accept and Running Wild.

There’s still more to this than smash n’ grab speed metal, although songs such as ‘Reborn’ and ‘Die With A Knife In Your Back’ are exactly that; eye-gouging, lung-burning, tongue-snipping blasphemous snippets of caustic destruction hotter than your underwear after a night on the curry.

Neil Arnold

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