Skulled - Eat Thrash (2017)^{Release ID: 38316}

Drawing loose influences from Exodus, Municipal Waste and Testament, German thrashers Skulled make a fair old crack at delivering their version of thrash metal.  If thrash metal to me as a listener stood for bad lyrics, clumsy arrangements and dropping every cliché in the book then I would love Eat Thrash from end to end.  Unfortunately, I do not admire much about anything that Skulled do on this their second (and final) full-length.  I am all for the goofy nature of some thrash bands but Skulled just appear really immature.  The combination of poor song writing and the fact that they are not singing in their native tongue really sets the record off on shaky ground from the off.  

Consistently similar, tracks just merge and mould into one another and so it becomes a drag to sit through ten tracks.  Final track Satan In My Drink is one of the worst tracks I have ever heard and is a perfect summary of what is overall a poorly thought out and horribly rushed affair.  The album constantly falls over itself tripping over the same clichés again and again.  I get they are passionate about thrash metal and want to give their best representation of the music they like but it just lacks direction and spends ten tracks just constantly shooting itself in the foot.