{"id":102338,"date":"2024-01-26T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T00:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=102338"},"modified":"2024-02-09T12:56:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T12:56:47","slug":"ep-review-ordered-to-kill-metal-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-ordered-to-kill-metal-command\/","title":{"rendered":"ORDERED TO KILL – Metal Command (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

ORDERED TO KILL
Metal Command EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSelf-released (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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It looks like Municipal Waste and sounds like every other throwback thrash act that wishes they\u2019d been around in the 80s. The latest mob of generic thrash ghouls is Brazilian band Ordered To Kill who even use vintage album titles in their lyrics.<\/p>\n

The novelty wears off very quickly but thankfully this release is only 12 minutes long and so, after stealing the theme from the movie Jaws for their intro, the trio of Jan Seth (vocals and bass), Lincon La Roque (drums) and Germain (guitar) rattle of three tracks which lack identity but spit with energy.<\/p>\n

Bands of this ilk were as common as muck in the 80s and still seem to be springing up in abundance today in order to keep the thrash flag flying. Even so, the songs \u2013 \u2018Sacrifice\u2019, \u2018Metal Command\u2019 and \u2018Black Speed Metal\u2019 \u2013 flit by like average tributes to Slayer<\/a>, Dark Angel and a plethora of other bands who did it a million times better. If I had to pick a favourite cut then \u2018Black Speed Metal\u2019 is pretty feisty but it\u2019s predictable in every twist, every riff and every vocal tirade.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure an album will follow in due course but Ordered To Kill will have to up their game tenfold or they will be relegated into the pits where so many other same sounding bands dwell.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ORDERED TO KILLMetal Command EP Self-released (2024)Rating: 5\/10 It looks like Municipal Waste and sounds like every other throwback thrash act that wishes they\u2019d been around in the 80s. The latest mob of generic thrash ghouls is Brazilian band Ordered To Kill who even use vintage album titles in their lyrics. The novelty wears off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5568],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-ordered-to-kill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102339,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102338\/revisions\/102339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}