‘Speed Kills VII’ Compilation Album Released (December 2nd, 2016)

‘Speed Kills VII’ Compilation Album Released
December 2nd, 2016

Compilation album Speed Kills VII was issued on December 2nd, 2016 through Music For Nations. The album was made available on vinyl and digitally.

The seventh instalment focused exclusively on British extreme music and featured liner notes from veteran rock journalist Malcolm Dome.

Dome commented on the bands involved: “Let’s begin with a band who link this album and its predecessor Speed Kills VI: Violence Of The Slams. The latter had a song from Acid Reign, and they’re here again, with ‘Plan Of The Damned’.

“East Anglia’s The King Is Blind dose upon Celtic Frost, Mercyful Fate and Emperor to give us the nascent nutjob ‘Throne Of Skulls’. Only formed in 2013, this lot are rowdy and… well. LOUDY!

“Londoners Formicarius are immersed in blackness. As ‘Lake Of The Dead’ shows, they’re inherently part of the black metal heritage, but have an approach that takes the sound right back to its British roots.

“Amulet also come from London, and as you’ll hear on ‘Highwayman’, this four-piece owe a lot to NWOBHM. The style and attitude has the bristling action packed peaking of bands like Trespass, Sledgehammer and Jameson Raid from those golden days of 1979/80.

“Slough’s Divine Chaos are certainly no slouches. The song ‘Ignorance Everlasting’ might begin with a misleadingly genteel intro, but soon opens into the type of thrusting, raging hymn that fits perfectly into the quintet’s philosophy of ‘blending the best elements of metal’ into their own music.

“Akerkocke have a vast array of experience. The progressive blackened metallers started in London during 1997. They broke up in 2012, but returned with a new, revitalised line-up four years later. As you can hear on ‘Inner Sanctum’, this is a band not living on a past reputation, but fervently forging feral flashes into the modern metal era.

“Dungeon are raw thrash mania – and proud of it. The London quartet attack, grind and maim with the sort of zeal and feel that brings to mind the early 1980s, when thrash was born. ‘Death From Above’ is a primal force overlaid with concussive musicianship. A full on facebutt.

“Formed in 2012, Voices feature ex-members of Akerocke in their line-up. The style on ‘Petrograph’ links to Voivod, early Akerocke and My Dying Bride. It’s virulent yet also surprising sophisticated. A cool concoction to entertain.

“Southampton trio Desolator started in 2010. And they rev up on the red line for ‘Full Power’. This is all action, moshing mania, with accelerating riffage and rampant rhythms, stark, strafing snaggletooth sonicity.

“The mysterious Nine Covens are a British band who keep the identity of their members under wraps. On ‘Through Fires Of Tyranny’, they create a heretical brew of black metal ire and brutally refined blood lust. A majestic paean to the dark forces of nature.”

Speed Kills VII features original cover artwork from Daniel P. Carter.

The track listing is as follows:

01. The King Is Blind – ‘Throne Of Skulls’
02. Formicarius – ‘Lake Of The Dead’
03. Acid Reign – ‘Plan Of The Damned’
04. Amulet – ‘Highwayman (Demo Version)’
05. Divine Chaos – ‘Ignorance Everlasting’
06. Akercocke – ‘Inner Sanctum’
07. Dungeon – ‘Death From Above’
08. Voices – ‘Petrograph’
09. Desolator – ‘Full Power’
10. Nine Covens – ‘Through Fires Of Tyranny’

A music video was filmed for The King Is Blind track ‘Throne Of Skulls’. Created and directed by Kieran Wakeman at Divine Chaos Art, the clip can be viewed below.

The first Speed Kills compilation was released through Music For Nations in 1985, with the last offering, Speed Kills VI: Violence Of The Slams, issued on the label’s Under One Flag imprint in 1992.

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