review: Black Pestilence

Black Pestilence

Hail the Flesh

1 May 2020

Black Pestilence (2008; Canada) releases its sixth album during the middle of a pestilence. Good times. Driven by punk speed, BP’s black thrash depends indispensably on high energy. Imagine punks that have extreme metal in their DNA filtering a mix of Motörhead, The Exploited and the punkish era of Darkthrone, add blasting, and they jget to work making noise for a good time in the pit. In the 34 minutes and nine songs BP runs through every track growling and pounding away. That’s their recipe for the party. Their simplicity is great for musical adrenaline. BP is obnoxious attitude and mosh pit sweat: encouraging fans to party too much, make too much noise, and generally instigating moshing. At its most basic the band relies on dirty blasting and thrashing speeds, black metal vocals, and a rumbling bass guitar. BP is ready to host the next mosh pit, whenever that is allowed.

blackpestilence.bandcamp.com/album/hail-the-flesh