{"id":105322,"date":"2025-08-14T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T23:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=105322"},"modified":"2025-09-04T10:27:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:27:27","slug":"album-review-tyrants-baptized-in-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-tyrants-baptized-in-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"TYRANTS – Baptized In Blood (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

TYRANTS
\nBaptized In Blood<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSelf-released (2025)<\/span>
\nRating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s a dose of Colombian thrash for those who require a wake up jab. This is the third full-length album in four years from Tyrants, who only formed in 2021, and it\u2019s quite the face melter.<\/p>\n

Clearly influenced by the raw South American underground scene alongside boasting a primitive Teutonic savagery, Baptized In Blood<\/em> really is a tour de force of thrash. Vocalist Juan Yepes has a snappy spiteful tone, spending much of his time spitting spite at the audience as well as slaying them with his axe.<\/p>\n

Tyrants also aren\u2019t strangers to Slayer<\/a>-esque riffs, especially with the hasty \u2018Nameless\u2019, but there\u2019s room for variety too. \u2018Blood On My Hands\u2019 has a gritty Celtic Frost-styled riff, although the rasping vocals again channel a Teutonic style. You\u2019ll hear lots of Sodom, Kreator and Destruction<\/a> throughout, alongside some Venom as well.<\/p>\n

All the songs are direct and most certainly appeal to the teenager within me. On \u2018Rise Your Fist\u2019 we get the lines: \u201cThe scream of thunder in the sky, The force of metal burning bright, a whirlwind takes the stage tonight, let chaos reign ignite the night\u201d<\/em>. Although rather oddly and correctly the chorus says \u201craise your fist\u201d<\/em>. However, the band isn\u2019t as naive as one might initially think. On \u2018New World Order\u2019 they spout some interesting lyrics: \u201cBinary whispers in the neon night, Digital dreams in the pixelated light, Codes and algorithms, a silent riddle, in this wired world\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Tyrants are adept at crafting catchy hooks over riffs not too far removed from some of Slayer\u2019s latter-day creations. Sure, it\u2019s all formulaic, but when you hear the menacing opening riff to \u2018Toxic Harvest\u2019 and the crisp melodic chugs of \u2018Sacred Lies\u2019 you begin to understand the serious nature of this gang. I\u2019m not sure what sort of impact Baptized In Blood<\/em> will make on the thrash circuit, but if you do call yourself a thrasher then you should be jumping all over this.<\/p>\n

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

TYRANTS Baptized In Blood Self-released (2025) Rating: 7.5\/10 Here\u2019s a dose of Colombian thrash for those who require a wake up jab. This is the third full-length album in four years from Tyrants, who only formed in 2021, and it\u2019s quite the face melter. Clearly influenced by the raw South American underground scene alongside boasting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5961],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-tyrants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105322","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=105322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105323,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105322\/revisions\/105323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}