Alkoholizer
Drunk or Dead... (2009)
Album

Reviewed: 11/21/2009

If you think all these new bands playing thrash metal in the old way are just mustard-gushing babies with no balls, then I need to crush your assumption by presenting Alkoholizer. Because if you think that way, there is no way you've heard this Italian group of drunkards. They formed only in 2006 and 'Drunk or Dead...' is their debut album. Short "radio" intro, which made me fear that here we have another fun band without fun, turns into thrashing to show ripping guitar tone and pounding rhythm section. But this is just the pre-taste of what Alkoholizer are capable of. When 'Pay with Your Blood' explodes into action, you'll be creaming yourselves if 1980s speed/thrash is your thing. Yup, nothing new here, just done in the similar way as it was done in the eighties. It sounds pretty North...

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