{"id":105888,"date":"2026-02-20T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=105888"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:19:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:19:39","slug":"album-review-lead-injector-witching-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-lead-injector-witching-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"LEAD INJECTOR – Witching Attack (2026) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

LEAD INJECTOR
\nWitching Attack<\/strong><\/span>
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\nHigh Roller (2026)<\/span>
\nRating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Lead Injector is a trio of rowdy rascals from Germany hellbent on keeping the black speed metal flag burning. Leo (vocals and bass) Jason (guitar) and Justus (drums) make a hell of a racket, brandishing brash barbaric sounds straight from the cauldron of early Sodom. No fucks are given here as the leather-clad cavemen embark upon a hostile journey with a duration just shy of 50 minutes. Yep, the album is too long for this sort of vicious attack, but it\u2019s still a destructive outing that\u2019s as crude as its cover art.<\/p>\n

\u2018Siege Upon Heaven\u2019 opens up the ceremony of chaos and it\u2019s pretty much the same wicked, sniping metal throughout. We\u2019ve all been here before, grasping at those rusty straws for a peek back into an era originally crafted by Venom, so expect no surprises, but do expect to get your crucifix ripped from the wall and shoved down your throat.<\/p>\n

Raw, primitive and spitting bone, Lead Injector scurries around the basement of your skull, clambering out of your mouth and puking acid back in your face. Hats off to drummer Justus here for trampling his skins throughout and creating a malevolent blizzard of tight tirades, particularly on the snarling hellfire of \u2018Sacrifice This Bitch\u2019.<\/p>\n

Often with this sort of blasphemous metal the sound can be quite thin, but in this case there\u2019s a density as if Lead Injectors\u2019 riffs are walls of thick choking smoke. Justus continues his demonic pounding on the lethal \u2018Angel Destructor\u2019. The bass grinds like Mot\u00f6rhead beneath the grating waves of riffage. Sandwiched alongside \u2018Angel Destructor\u2019 is the toxic flurry of \u2018Pest Thrash\u2019 where again there\u2019s that hideous scowling vocal and surging percussion entwined with the gnarly bass.<\/p>\n

Hints of old snappy Destruction<\/a> filters through the rusty gauze, but although much of the album is delivered with haste, \u2018Infinite Force\u2019 traipses with such a ghastly menace. The trio sounds even more evil with that steadier grey grind where the rhythm section oozes with malice and sneering energy. In fact, some of this intensity coupled with that twisting, churning riffage reminds me of something out of Norway \u2013 an arrogant scathing dollop of nastiness. However, if ever there was a track to transport its audience back to the halcyon days then it\u2019s \u2018Evil Executioner\u2019. This particular tirade brings in a punky element alongside the more recognisable vintage Sodom-styled barrages.<\/p>\n

Witching Attack<\/em> is just a ferociously hostile record throughout and one which effortlessly captures the true hideous spirit of early-to-mid 80s sniping thrash.<\/p>\n

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

LEAD INJECTOR Witching Attack High Roller (2026) Rating: 8\/10 Lead Injector is a trio of rowdy rascals from Germany hellbent on keeping the black speed metal flag burning. Leo (vocals and bass) Jason (guitar) and Justus (drums) make a hell of a racket, brandishing brash barbaric sounds straight from the cauldron of early Sodom. No […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,6018],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-lead-injector"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105888","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=105888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105889,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105888\/revisions\/105889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}