If you’re a thrasher, Eruption might just be for you. Vocals that rise and fall to the music, capturing the heavy riffs with phlegm-flinging yells and rising with the chords to glass-shattering levels. And, as is the case with all their releases, the bass guitar has just as much a presence as the vocals. Everything from its vice-tight guitar picking to sharp drum work. It’s nonstop thrash, delivered with high energy and executed with painstaking precision. If you know the band, you’ll be pleased to know the new record is right on par with Tenses. But, right away, it has two things going for it that its predecessor didn’t: a better title and better artwork. On the surface, Cloaks of Oblivion is a sleek continuation of Tenses Collide. So, what does 2017’s Cloaks of Oblivion have in store for us? Well… The songwriting, however, still remains-kicking your ass from the caged-off bar to the pit. Traveling through 2009’s Lifeless Paradise to 2012’s Tenses Collide, the biggest changes come in the form of the vocals and production.

From there, the band expanded its repertoire to include influences like Artillery and Forbidden. The lyrics, the riffs, the voice-it’s all there. When they emerged in 2009 with debut album, Lifeless Paradise, they were hellbent on rekindling the early years of the Bay Area thrash scene (particularly Metallica and Testament). That combination alone should pique some interest for these worshipers of the old and true. Yep, I said “Slovenian” and “thrash” in the same sentence. Instead, Eruption fit under a third, yet unlisted category: thrash metal. Guess which one the Slovenian outfit Eruption fits in. The former isn’t for virgin eyes and the latter? Van Halen. Two things come to mind when I see the word “eruption.” One is filthy and the other is raunchy.

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