{"id":104612,"date":"2025-03-07T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=104612"},"modified":"2025-03-21T11:45:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T11:45:28","slug":"album-review-whipstriker-cry-of-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-whipstriker-cry-of-extinction\/","title":{"rendered":"WHIPSTRIKER – Cry Of Extinction (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

WHIPSTRIKER
Cry Of Extinction<\/strong><\/span>
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\nHells Headbangers (2025)<\/span>
Rating: 6\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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When this Rio de Janeiro, Brazil-based act emerged as a one man band in 2010 with debut album Crude Rock N\u2019 Roll<\/em> there was something refreshing about the brand of rusty speed metal. However, since then I\u2019ve somewhat lost track of Whipstriker\u2019s output.<\/p>\n

Involved in an obscene amount of split projects, alongside a batch of albums and a few EPs means that this is one of the most prolific acts out there. Cry Of Extinction<\/em> is the fifth full-length platter and once again we are treated to more Venom aping which wore off several years ago. The problem here also is that while in the past Whipstriker albums have been relatively short, this one extends to a few minutes shy of 40, so by the time I\u2019m halfway through I\u2019m already starting to switch off. Even the cover rendition of Destruction<\/a>\u2019s \u2018Satan\u2019s Vengeance\u2019, although admirable, is just more evidence of the generic black leather n\u2019 studs worship we\u2019ve come to expect here.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, we get swatted by the usual claptrap of the steadier \u2018Six-Eyes Crow Division\u2019, the equally oxidized slog of \u2018WWVI\u2019, the Mot\u00f6rhead jacked \u2018Heartrippers\u2019 and closer \u2018Military Scum\u2019, an overlong Venom clone that\u2019s demonic yet derivative. Sure, if you like this sort of aggressive blizzard of banality then swallow a few cans and enjoy the ride, but if, like me, you\u2019ve heard it all before, then I just don\u2019t think Cry Of Extinction<\/em> does anything remotely entertaining.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s certainly some malicious melodies entwined within the hellish mix of d-beat butchery and raw blasphemy, but seeing such ancient blackened noise churned out decades after its birth just isn\u2019t as cool as some make it out to be.<\/p>\n

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

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