Protestant

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In Thy Name
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014
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Protestant from Milwaukee are a very productive entity within the Extreme Music scene. In less than a decade, they recorded and released hands full of EP’s, several splits (with the likes of Get Rad, Northless or Suffering Mind), and four full albums; most of the stuff, by the way, was done via Halo Of Flies (also based in Milwaukee), sometimes in collaboration with another label. This release too is a joint-collaboration in between Halo Of Flies and young but fastly growing French Extreme Music label Throatruiner Records.

In Thy Name is the fifth album by Protestant, having a total running time of about half an hour. This band has nothing to lose and no interest in anything other than spitting in the face of any enemy within reach (cf. the biography), and this might give you an idea. Maybe this album is the heaviest, most violent thing the band ever did. It mixes extreme Metal (which I won’t define specifically as purely Black, Death or whatever Metal) with elements from nasty and Punk-injected Hardcore and Crust. On top of it these lullabies come with a production undefinable: soft like emery paper that has been covered with rusty razor blades (I told you there is no way how to label this raw sound). But don’t forget that this production fits, and even strengthens the brutality and bellicosity of Protestant’s violent Crust-Hardcore-Black Metal hybrid. Throughout the album, Protestant injects this fusion with elements from the likes of Sludge, Doom and Drone, and there are even some subtle hints of Thrash Metal from time to time.

In any case, if you prefer your sonic satisfaction the masochistic way, then I would heavily recommend this sadistic ear drum torture!

90/100