{"id":106107,"date":"2026-05-15T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=106107"},"modified":"2026-06-05T11:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:22:09","slug":"album-review-louder-devils-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-louder-devils-night\/","title":{"rendered":"LOUDER – Devil\u2019s Night (2026) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOUDER
\nDevil\u2019s Night<\/strong><\/span>
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\nFighter (2026)<\/span>
\nRating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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With names like Hellgr\u00f6wler (vocals and guitar), Deathstr\u00f6ker (bass) and Nekr\u00f6 (drums) I expected this Columbian trio to cough up some unhealthy speed metal, and that\u2019s exactly what happened. With song titles such as \u2018Speed Junkie\u2019, \u2018Satan\u2019s Bitch\u2019 and \u2018Hellish Rock \u2018N\u2019 Roll\u2019, these scurrying warlocks don\u2019t leave anything to the imagination.<\/p>\n

Louder lay their brand of spite metal out on the alter alongside a bloodied dagger, black candles and spell book as they march through the early-to-mid 80s thrash metal catalogue, often stopping off at early Slayer<\/a>, Celtic Frost, Venom and the South American underground, while not forgetting a rusty blast of Teutonic fury. Buy this album in 1984 and you\u2019ll forever worship at its gates, but time machines don\u2019t exist so just accept the nostalgic vim and grab a few beers for the ride.<\/p>\n

The closing title track is my favourite heap; it boasts a cavernous vocal snap as if main man Hellgr\u00f6wler has fallen into a garbage can. It\u2019s a mob mentality from the pack as with primitive rawness they ramble through 30 minutes of raucous, uncompromising speed metal.<\/p>\n

These are the kind albums which don\u2019t necessarily require reviews because the song titles, cover art and band photos do the talking, but as I\u2019m here we may as well talk about opener \u2018Speed Junkie\u2019, a smorgasbord of early 80s bile, puss, blood and crack. The trio throws in a punchbowl concoction of Venom, Destruction<\/a>, Sodom and Celtic Frost, a tried and trusted formula that has been spewed out of South America for decades.<\/p>\n

Louder recycle old Slayer on \u2018Satan\u2019s Bitch\u2019, the heady guitar work zipping from the plumes of choking smoke with unflinching hostility and blasphemous aplomb. Variety is scant, Louder are simply here to do the Devil\u2019s work, epitomised by the Bathory speedball of \u2018Louder Than Hell\u2019. But if you are seeking something less spiky within the intoxicating clouds, then sleazy slice \u2018Dirty Rocker\u2019 will be right up your stinking alley. Mid-paced and chugging with grim know-how, it channels the latter day Darkthrone<\/a> sound; the vocal is a snarl and the riff a nasty, oil-soaked traipse.<\/p>\n

\u2018Heavy Metal Nights\u2019 takes the early 80s Teutonic fizz and runs with it through grease ball graveyards, the guitar attack bringing that classic vicious speed metal assault to the fore, while \u2018Metallic Overdose\u2019 is as equally tyrannical, acting like a lethal speed-up version of both Venom and Celtic Frost.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve reviewed a lot of hell born stuff like this over the years, but I see no decline in bands of this ilk emerging. Straight from the gutters of Lucifer\u2019s backstreets, this is Colombian metal for the wired.<\/p>\n

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

LOUDER Devil\u2019s Night Fighter (2026) Rating: 7\/10 With names like Hellgr\u00f6wler (vocals and guitar), Deathstr\u00f6ker (bass) and Nekr\u00f6 (drums) I expected this Columbian trio to cough up some unhealthy speed metal, and that\u2019s exactly what happened. With song titles such as \u2018Speed Junkie\u2019, \u2018Satan\u2019s Bitch\u2019 and \u2018Hellish Rock \u2018N\u2019 Roll\u2019, these scurrying warlocks don\u2019t leave […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,6035],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-louder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106107","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=106107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106108,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106107\/revisions\/106108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}