{"id":104158,"date":"2024-10-22T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T23:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=104158"},"modified":"2024-11-01T10:39:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T10:39:25","slug":"album-review-anialator-death-is-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-anialator-death-is-calling\/","title":{"rendered":"ANIALATOR – Death Is Calling (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANIALATOR
Death Is Calling<\/strong><\/span>
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\nXtreem Music (2024)<\/span>
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Now here\u2019s a blast from the past as Texan cult thrashers Anialator emerge once again from the underground and finally hit us with a debut full-length album since forming in the mid-80s.<\/p>\n

I was introduced to these guys via their 1988 self-titled EP which was issued by Wild Rags Records. Much has changed since then but it\u2019s great that Anialator, like many seemingly defunct 80s acts, has resurfaced, albeit with only one original member in the form of bassist Alex Dominguez who owns the band name. But let\u2019s forget the past and move to the now and Death Is Calling<\/em>, a 33 minute hammering dressed in a generic and god-awful slice of album art, although don\u2019t let such computer generated tomfoolery put you off.<\/p>\n

Death Is Calling<\/em> hits very hard from the off, a savage tirade of riffs and drums are skin to an avalanche as \u2018Kill Till Death\u2019 produces some Anthrax-styled chugs, melodious leads and vicious vocal chops. The aggression has obviously never left Anialator as \u2018Memories Of Death\u2019 scuttles with ferocity amid the rattling bass and punchy drums.<\/p>\n

As the album unravels the vocals become nastier, bordering on thrashing death slurs, and while I\u2019m impressed by the injections of melody throughout, the speedier moments are just pure unrelenting savagery. \u2018Hear The Death Call\u2019 hits you like a blizzard even with its timely injected chugs, and the same goes for the rawer snipes of \u2018Relentless\u2019.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, \u2018Iron Grinder\u2019 is the ideal exhibition of a fusing of mid-paced riffage and bursts of speed, while \u2018Terror Tactics\u2019 is a pummelling closer of epic proportions, and although Anialator in 2024 is very much a more fine-tuned entity, the art of its butchery has never left its coils.<\/p>\n

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

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