Band:	Project Pain
Album:	Thrashed To Kill
Style:	Thrash metal
Release date:	April 2015

01. Betrayal
02. Necrophiliac
03. Piss On Your Grave
04. Zero Tolerance
05. Sent Off To Die
06. Fear The Reaper
07. Flatline Invasion
08. Thrashed To Kill
09. At Dawn We Ride
10. Taken By Force [feat. Josh Christian]

Thrashed To Kill resulted in drinks spilled.

When last we left Project Pain, I reviewed their debut I Have Sinned, the first album of some old school Dutch thrashers. With Thrashed To Kill it seems the band has continued their thrashin' ways, gobbling up Gouda, pounding Jenever, sticking their fingers in dikes and shoving their wooden shoes up the backsides of poor posers. Thrash. Sorry, hadn't used that word in a sentence or two, needed to get it in.

Thrashed To Kill represents a nice step forward for the band. It's still thrash, with all the various elements you expect, nay, DEMAND from your thrash. Riffs, riffs, riffs. Plenty of e-string chugging and galloping coupled with single note runs. Lots of shredding and soli, including a ripping cameo by Josh Christian of Toxik on "Taken By Force".

Sure, I have some minor quibbles with the album. The vocals are decent, but sound awkward when going super high, as in "Flatline Invasion". Additionally the production, while the guitars sound great, could use a little more grit and perhaps the drums some more muscle. Of course, it is the belief of the author that the best thrash sound would be something akin go Vio-lence Eternal Nightmare, only with the drum sound/force of Dave Lombardo on "War Ensemble". Thrashed To Kill, while not to my ideal, still sounds a hell of a lot better than, say, World Painted Magnetic.

The big thing is the riffs feel tighter. And better. They took what they did with I Have Sinned, worship of the 80s thrash of their glory years, and refined it. Instead of rusty hatchet thrash fury, you now get razor sharp thrash fury. Particularly the great 1-2 punch of "Piss On Your Grave" and "Zero Tolerance" which include such happy thoughts as "Zero tolerance/Punch you in your face".

The album has more barnburners than Amsterdam has "coffee houses"? The listener is bombarded by an unrelenting array mach666 riffs and all sorts of venom.

So if you dig the thrash, check it out.

And just one more time for shits and giggles.

Thrash!