This review deals with a re-issued release of Californian act Insanity. This band was formed during the eighties and one of the (many) American acts back then that played Death Metal in its purest form, yet unmodestly injected with furious Thrash-nastiness. They recorded some demonstrational material, and in 1994 they were finally able to release their debut full length, Death After Death, via the very small and shortly living German label M.B.R. Records. That album was re-released through the band’s own label Black Lung Records, and now also on vinyl via Hells Headbangers with new artwork.
Death After Death indeed brings that kind of stuff that we were used to two decades ago. And for those who ‘into’ that kind of sh*t, this material isn’t but a recommendation (at least in case you have not this material yet in your possession). There is a modest kind of melody in support of the whole, but the focus lies on fast and nasty Deathrash terror with a subtle technical excellence that did sort of characterise the Californian scene back then (in fact, the whole south of the You-Es-Aaj, from California to Florida). It was, at the same time, one of those bands that was not afraid to add some subtle experiment: acoustic parts, riffs taken from the Retro-Thrash movement as well as the so-called ‘tremolo’-execution, and some modernised, semi-progressive riffs (at least, it sounded ‘progressive’ back then, but the smartest ones amongst you would have understood it)
If you can appreciate anything in between Whiplash, Possessed, Vio-Lence, Repulsion, very early Death, Atheist, Dark Angel, Master and Ripping Corpse, you will know what to do right now; you’ll have to know…