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CD Review: FASTKILL Bestial Thrashing Bulldozer

Fastkill

With cover art that looks like Skeletor having 'Nam flashbacks, you might be inclined to assume that Fastkill - relentlessly old school, unapologetically cheesy – hail from Germany, land of bullet belts and unintentionally awkward war imagery. Actually, they're from… Japan, which might make the tanks and other various weaponry on the band's album covers similarly questionable, except that this quintet is really just aping the Cold War-era themes that were on the American groups' minds back in the 80's, when this style of strep throat thrash was at its apex (same as the Germans, really). (more…)