Skull Pin
“The Perfect Harmony For Doomsday”
Thrash Metal
Self Released
Release Date: 3/6/2013
Rating: 8.5/10
Skull Pin is a thrash metal trio from the depths of Arizona, Tucson to be exact. This album has all eras of thrash written all over it!! I sense Toxic Holocaust, Municipal Waste and Slayer right off the bat. Marvin’s vocals at times has an Agnostic Front feel to them as well. Have I gotten your attention yet? Good because this album is raw, aggressive, dirty and a no fucks were given attitude.
I just have to put it out there, Marvin is one of the best promoters from a band I have seen! He is out there every day promoting Skull Pin and wanting people to check them out. Now, on to the review. I grew up on this style of thrash so I am able to appreciate it and it brings me back to growing up and how AWESOME my childhood was.
I want to mention the song “Steem” really quick. This is my favorite track off of this release. For one reason, the guitar solo about 3/4 the way through is sick! The other reason is Marvin’s vocals really stand out and are in your face for most of the songs existence. I cannot leave out the drums. The drums were also one of my favorite parts of this song. Every other song comes in at a close second and it was hard to pick another one to talk about. That is the main reason why I didn’t give this album a 9 rating is because about half of the songs have a similar sound to them. But that is typical thrash fashion and as long as they do it well, I’m all for it. So, don’t let that persuade you to not giving these guys a chance.
Basically, if you love the old school thrash sound, these guys will give you eargasms all over your place. I’m pretty sure my lamp is broken and I may have twisted my ankle because of the shenanigans that went down at my place in direct result of previewing this album. If you have $5 to spare, you better be spending it on picking this album up from their bandcamp page. You don’t know their link, luckily I’m nice and will be providing that info at the bottom.
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