Evil Invaders - Shattering Reflection (2022)

In 2015 I wrote that Evil Invaders first album Pulses of Pleasures would be hard to surpass. And indeed, like previously Feed Me Violence, Shattering Reflection is not as impressive. But in all fairness, Pulses of Pleasures is probably the best speed metal album of the XXIth century so far and Evil Invaders are still an excellent band, and Shattering Reflection is a great album to listen to. On Shattering Reflection, maybe even more than on Feed Me Violence, the Belgian band kept the speed metal/thrash intensity but overall are less fast and aggressive, evolving more in a traditional heavy metal direction. The good thing is that they also are very good at that, and with Shattering Reflection they produced another old school metal classic.  

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Evil Invaders - Pulses of Pleasure (2015)

With their first album Pulses of Pleasure, the Belgian band Evil Invaders committed  the perfect old school metal album. The album sits in between Judas priest, Iron Maiden and the first Metallica and Slayer albums.
Fast and trashy riffing, good crazy soloing, high-pitched singing and screaming reminding a young Tom Araya, an excellent heavy / speed rhythm section (with a bass that you hear well in the mix),  but above all an excellent songwriting that put them easily above most thrash / speed metal revivalists. And they're equally good for the thrashier faster parts and for the more epic / melodic parts (often combining the two in one song). Pulses of pleasure is a very exiting and addictive album, doing an impressive good job of reviving in a spontaneous and fresh way the passion that fuelled the era of speed / heavy / thrash metal it draws its inspiration from.  Such an album will be hard to surpass!