Woaw i did not expect this band to be this good... one of the better younger thrash bands of today...

I may have found a favorite New School Thrash band

Let's see how their March release is.

One of the best thrash bands in my collection. I recommend them to anyone who loves pure fuckin' THRASH!

From modern thrash albums I'd this is one of the most enjoyable ones I've heard. Lots of speed, energy and aggression here. The performance of the whole band sounds great here, though if I'm impressed by something that would be the drumming.

I'd say this album would be 9 without the weaker tracks. As it is you've got 5 strong tracks and few of those remaining 7 are a somewhat questionable. Cut this to ~40 minutes and you've got strong thrash album

Written by JOPE OF STEELE on 12.07.2016 at 16:48


I'd say this album would be 9 without the weaker tracks. As it is you've got 5 strong tracks and few of those remaining 7 are a somewhat questionable.

This is the real issue.

When i first came across Havok's debut, i had a blast going through half of the record and then it started dragging til it finishes to the point where i really thought they would haven't dragged at all.

I felt they lose some good points over length of the record, plus you'd see last couple of tracks are absolute simple and boring. As if they were in hurry to finish it.

For me, TIU is one of the best material Havok recorded and it would be pretty tough to surpass that level.

Written by Cynic Metalhead on 12.07.2016 at 18:02

Written by JOPE OF STEELE on 12.07.2016 at 16:48


I'd say this album would be 9 without the weaker tracks. As it is you've got 5 strong tracks and few of those remaining 7 are a somewhat questionable.

This is the real issue.

When i first came across Havok's debut, i had a blast going through half of the record and then it started dragging til it finishes to the point where i really thought they would haven't dragged at all.

I felt they lose some good points over length of the record, plus you'd see last couple of tracks are absolute simple and boring. As if they were in hurry to finish it.

For me, TIU is one of the best material Havok recorded and it would be pretty tough to surpass that level.

TIU is clearly better as easily more consistent album, but personally many of my favorite Havok songs are on Burn so it's quite a dilemma. It's a shame that some albums have to be so long and I'd say unnecessarily so because we are dealing with pretty typical thrash that I don't see benefiting anything from that extra 10-15 minutes. So personally I see the albums as equally good, but I'd choose Burn over TIU and US if it was 35-40 minutes and w/o the weakest tracks.

A great, solid thrash debut done with real conviction and prowess. Reminds me at times of early Death Angel, in a good way of course. Best songs for me would be "Identity Theft" and "Category of the Dead".

Those riffs

Great first record. Can't get enough of Afterburner...

Such a great modern thrash record but I still think it could have been trimmed back a few minutes, there's so many quality tracks but also has a few too many fillers that resulted in this becoming an exceptional album rather than a great one.