Review by Carl on March 27, 2025.

And to think I picked this one up just to pad out an order I was placing. Jeez Louise, this is some awesome stuff. I guess we have another one to put on that already bulky list of great releases of the year 2024, next to stuff by Morgue, Vomitrot, and Hemorrhoid, to just name a few.

Onslaught Kommand take the chainsaw roarings of black/death metal bands such as Archgoat, Blasphemy, Proclamation, and Bestial Mockery, and combine this with the sounds of primordial death metal bands like Hellhammer, Slaughter, Possessed, Repulsion, and early Carcass, thus creating a volatile concoction of raw and brutish metal, low on subtlety, but high on aggressive intent. Within the short and pointy songs, the band moves from roaring blastbeat hammering to gory midtempo stomping parts and back again, all rolled up in rough blackened buzzsaw riffs, seething leads and plucking distorted bass, with a rough cavernous growl bellowing over it. The music isn't all that complicated, which is a big plus in my book, because this stuff comes out swinging in all its rough, gruff, and highly effective simplicity, absolutely trembling with raw, punk-ish energy. The aggression and belligerent intent simply ooze out of the speakers, with the excellently balanced and very natural-sounding production job putting a barbed wire crown on proceedings here. You can color me impressed for sure because this album slaps like an eight-armed abusive father.

This is the way stuff like this needs to be delivered: raw and bloody, while oozing deranged ferocity all throughout, with a sound mix that beautifully mirrors the music in all its unhinged primitive power, making this album a steel-plated fist, ready to plow itself into the abdomen with reckless abandon. Onslaught Kommand may not be the most original band in the style, but the sheer force the band exudes wipes away any criticism in that direction like that. It may be no high art in any way, but it rips, claws, and tears with the best of 'em.

This truly is relentless sonic barbarism: primitive in its ways, and highly effective in its execution.

Rating: 9 out of 10