{"id":105642,"date":"2025-10-24T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T23:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=105642"},"modified":"2025-11-10T11:19:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:19:03","slug":"album-review-hostilia-face-the-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-hostilia-face-the-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"HOSTILIA – Face The Fire (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOSTILIA
\nFace The Fire<\/strong><\/span>
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\nHammerheart (2025)<\/span>
\nRating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Thrash metal, Swedish style, is on the agenda with Hostilia. Face The Fire<\/em> is their debut full-length album which has emerged after a brace of EPs. The band of five formed four years ago out of Gothenburg, although current vocalist Tim Angelini didn\u2019t join the ranks until 2023. The rest of the line-up comprises of the twin axe attack of Willie Lindeblad and Petter Hernroth, while on drums is Albert Lindeblad and bass duties are performed by Gabriel Sep\u00falveda.<\/p>\n

Hostilia\u2019s debut comes wrapped in ghoulish 80s style artwork and a sound boasting crisp musicianship with a textbook thrash framework. This really is a good thrash album sprinkled with both Bay Area and Teutonic dynamics and a genuinely melodic musicality which produces infectious results.<\/p>\n

The vocals have a vicious snap to them as opener \u2018Power Out\u2019 chugs with menace. The riffs are as sharp as a razor, chopping and gnashing with malicious glee as the title track flickers with a 90s groove metal before the speedier blows ensue. At times Angelini sounds like Metallica\u2019s James Hetfield, delivering snappy blows and scathing jabs.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s plenty of variety here as well though. \u2018The Domino Effect\u2019 is very much belligerence modern thrash, \u2018Bone Collector\u2019 is a deadly dose of measured thrash, and elsewhere songs such as \u2018P.T.D.\u2019 and fan favourite \u2018Eternal Death\u2019 fill the void and quench the thirst. Good stuff all round then if you like crisp, energetic thrash.<\/p>\n

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

HOSTILIA Face The Fire Hammerheart (2025) Rating: 7\/10 Thrash metal, Swedish style, is on the agenda with Hostilia. Face The Fire is their debut full-length album which has emerged after a brace of EPs. The band of five formed four years ago out of Gothenburg, although current vocalist Tim Angelini didn\u2019t join the ranks until […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5991],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-hostilia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105642","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=105642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105643,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105642\/revisions\/105643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}