Deathhammer - Electric Warfare (LP)

All-too-perfectly titled, Electric Warfare is a veritable blast from the past, in more ways than one. As Sadomancer explains, "We recorded it many years ago before Chained to Hell was out when Sergeant Salsten visited from Australia in 2016, but those recordings got scrapped. Then we worked on it some more years and finally started to record it again at the start of 2020 with - from my part - a couple of new tracks. We threw away a couple in favor of new better ones." Indeed, the devilish dialogue between the two plays out in righteous form on Electric Warfare, offering DEATHAMMER's most ripping and intense songs yet as well as some of their most epic. Sadomancer reasons that his songs are fairly long and intricate while Sergeant Salsten's are ultra-short and to the point; together, the bloodied canvas on which they write is a torrent of timeless metal mayhem, whether you qualify it strictly as "blackthrash" or simply heavy metal. Perhaps the biggest development here is the utterly awesome recording, ably balancing the band's original rawness with a never-overstated professionalism - credit the mix courtesy of Arild Torp of NEKROMANTHEON and OBLITERATION. Topped off by another killer cover painted by longtime comrade Eduard Johnson, DEATHHAMMER deliver their biggest metal inferno with Electric Warfare!