{"id":104901,"date":"2025-05-09T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T23:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=104901"},"modified":"2025-05-22T11:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:56:21","slug":"album-review-interceptor-metal-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-interceptor-metal-death\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERCEPTOR – Metal Death (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

INTERCEPTOR
Metal Death<\/strong><\/span>
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\nMotorpunk (2025)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I really hope the album cover is for comedic effect, especially when Interceptor’s brand of metal is decent. The photo does the Charleston, South Carolina-based band no favours, so if you can, look beyond the flesh, leather and poses for what is essentially another dose of vicious speed metal.<\/p>\n

Hot on the heels of last year\u2019s full-length debut, Tales Of Mayhem<\/em>, Interceptor once again explores the realms of 80s rusty thrash with this latest effort. Without Venom stuff like this wouldn\u2019t be puked up so regularly and for those who despise such throwback tumult, look away now.<\/p>\n

Metal Death<\/em> comprises of 12 tracks \u2013 well, 11 without the outro (\u2018To Southland\u2019) \u2013 and it\u2019s safe to say there\u2019s nothing here to stretch your imagination, but then again that\u2019s not its intention. The trio of Blake \u201cBulld\u00f6zer\u201d Arendall (vocals, guitar and bass), Johnny \u201cReaper\u201d Faiella (guitar) and Elijah \u201cTyrant\u201d Hicks (drums) march hastily back and forth between old school Teutonic rawness and the likes of the aforementioned Venom alongside Bathory and Bulldozer.<\/p>\n

The title track begins with an interesting nod towards the duelling banjo scene in the 1972 movie Deliverance<\/em> before merging into speed metal hell. The structure reminds me of Voivod\u2019s namesake song \u2018Voivod\u2019 with those punky guitars and hissing drums, while the vocals are a rampant combination of Voivod\u2019s Snake and Venom\u2019s Cronos.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no real deviation from the theme throughout the album, but once you\u2019ve consumed a few beers the fun increases. \u2018Nachtkrieg\u2019 is basically Mot\u00f6rhead on satanic steroids where the vocals drift into lower end grim growls, while the punk filth continues in the gnarly axe work. Compared to a majority of the tracks, this is very much Interceptor at their most musically tame with that mid-paced grime.<\/p>\n

More Venom cloning occurs on \u2018Beheaded\u2019, although the serrated riff is excellent, but when one considers the amount of stinking speed on offer it\u2019s \u2018The Sword Of Fire\u2019 which suggests the band can surprise if necessary. In this case the track comes across like a doomy studio jam which trudges with a sullen grit, never really going anywhere but showcasing a truly primitive air. \u2018Axe Warrior\u2019 also sounds like a rehearsal, in particular the loose drums, but again the pace drops slightly to result in a more infectious rust-bucket of a composition.<\/p>\n

Of course, more archetypal speed anthems are littered throughout, like \u2018Whisky Night\u2019 and \u2018Black Ritual\u2019, but then you hear a track like the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal inspired \u2018Confederate Cannibals\u2019 or the blackened doom of \u2018Cemetery Winds\u2019 and you start to realise that there\u2019s more to these guys than the eyes meeting a leathery codpiece.<\/p>\n

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

INTERCEPTORMetal Death Motorpunk (2025)Rating: 7\/10 I really hope the album cover is for comedic effect, especially when Interceptor’s brand of metal is decent. The photo does the Charleston, South Carolina-based band no favours, so if you can, look beyond the flesh, leather and poses for what is essentially another dose of vicious speed metal. Hot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5916],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-interceptor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104901","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=104901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104905,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104901\/revisions\/104905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}