{"id":99321,"date":"2023-04-03T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T23:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=99321"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:19:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T10:19:27","slug":"ep-review-leather-brigade-pray-to-the-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-leather-brigade-pray-to-the-knife\/","title":{"rendered":"LEATHER BRIGADE – Pray To The Knife EP (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

LEATHER BRIGADE
Pray To The Knife EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nVicious Witch (2023)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Boasting some killer artwork, Pray To The Knife<\/em> is the new EP from Romanian upstarts Leather Brigade, a Bucharest gang of misfits who like to dabble in alcohol-drenched speed metal with punk aesthetics.<\/p>\n

The band members go by such names as Victor Nekrohammer (vocals and bass), Tudor Speedboozer (lead guitar), Alex Fleshripper (rhythm guitar) and Cryspinel Nefuneraru\u2019 (drums), and what you get here are five nasty tracks of familiar yet fiery blackened lumps of evil that nod heavily towards Venom, Bathory, Mot\u00f6rhead, Tank and just about every other raw, primitive and maniacal band which became so influential to the black metal scene.<\/p>\n

Opener \u2018Alcoholic Night\u2019 features some great gang chants and typically rusty doses of reckless speed, but for me it is a song like the title track like where the band really comes into its own. This time the clan of cavemen delivers a nasty yet catchy riff built upon the clubbing actions of Cryspinel before the combo eventually goes full throttle into a vicious speed metal assault.<\/p>\n

When one considers the hype surrounding contemporary acts such as Hellripper, I\u2019d rather sit with this sort of now less diluted mayhem as \u2018Mistress Of Hell\u2019, \u2018I Am The Night\u2019 and the hilariously titled \u2018Sex With Satan\u2019 charge at the listener like a herd of murderous wildebeest. While there is little variety in the assault process of Leather Brigade, the band sure knows how to melt the ears with their brand of acidic spit.<\/p>\n

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

LEATHER BRIGADEPray To The Knife EP Vicious Witch (2023)Rating: 8\/10 Boasting some killer artwork, Pray To The Knife is the new EP from Romanian upstarts Leather Brigade, a Bucharest gang of misfits who like to dabble in alcohol-drenched speed metal with punk aesthetics. The band members go by such names as Victor Nekrohammer (vocals and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-leather-brigade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99321","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=99321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99322,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99321\/revisions\/99322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}