{"id":105166,"date":"2025-05-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=105166"},"modified":"2025-07-29T14:40:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:40:19","slug":"ep-review-savage-attack-terrify-the-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-savage-attack-terrify-the-living\/","title":{"rendered":"SAVAGE ATTACK – Terrify The Living EP (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAVAGE ATTACK
\nTerrify The Living EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nBloodpath (2025)<\/span>
\nRating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Nashville, Tennessee-based Savage Attack is an act that does indeed live up to their name \u2013 an old school sounding thrash band with some tight melodies and crossover elements. The biggest shame here is that this four-song EP runs just shy of 13 minutes, but in that time you get battered by the choppy vocal outbursts of bassist Brock Bombenhagel who wouldn\u2019t have been out of place fronting D.R.I. in the late 80s. His style is a confrontational blast of energetic raps and retorts led vigorously by the double team axe assault from Samual Chainsaw and Tommy Riprider.<\/p>\n

Influences are numerous although I hear more of a crossover slant on the opening title track, but as you dig deeper into the remaining trio of songs \u2013 \u2018Frozen In Fear\u2019, \u2018Fresh Blood And Cheap Denim\u2019 and \u2018Bastards Of Metal\u2019 \u2013 you can\u2019t help but skate n’ mosh along.<\/p>\n

\u2018Frozen In Fear\u2019 is a barbaric thrash attack boosted by the percussive fury of Frank Maniac, his violent thuds force you to envisage real mosh pits of the 80s when there was spontaneous chaos rather than orchestrated dance moves. The riffs cut through the smog, razor sharp yet loose n\u2019 lethal. There\u2019s a welcoming groove as one is experiencing Sacred Reich for the first time. Throw in some Exodus, some Overkill and a dash of Teutonic force and a hefty dose of Forced Entry and you\u2019ll get some idea of the plan here.<\/p>\n

\u2018Fresh Blood And Cheap Denim\u2019 is rampant thrashcore, a sweat fest of bruising fast riffs and the muscular bass tone and vocal slap of Brombenhagel. \u2018Bastards Of Metal\u2019 is very much a muscular anthem, slightly punky in its drum gallop and rippling with a Municipal Waste-style of alcohol infused debauchery.<\/p>\n

Terrify The Living<\/em> really is a strong EP from Savage Attack, and last year\u2019s debut full-length album, Sent To Kill<\/em>, comes highly recommended too.<\/p>\n

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

SAVAGE ATTACK Terrify The Living EP Bloodpath (2025) Rating: 7\/10 Nashville, Tennessee-based Savage Attack is an act that does indeed live up to their name \u2013 an old school sounding thrash band with some tight melodies and crossover elements. The biggest shame here is that this four-song EP runs just shy of 13 minutes, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5945],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-savage-attack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105166","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=105166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105168,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105166\/revisions\/105168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}