Artist: RITUAL CARNAGE
Title: The Highest Law
Year of Release: 1998
Label: Osmose Productions
Format: CD
It's funny that 2007 was another one of those years where people guff on about how thrash is back and so on, yet it's been 10 years since this thrash nouveau masterpiece was unleashed and in my opinion, this is one record that never got the recognition it deserved.
Despite the obvious early Slayer and Metallica influences, the predominantly Japanese ensemble have a fiercely unique sound and on this album manage to unveil 10 killer, catchy as hell death thrash tracks. Proceedings are concluded with a very tidy cover of Onslaught's 'Death Metal', and the lyrics, while direct, are never clumsy or ridiculous as is the case with many contemporary thrash troupes. I guess it depends which side of the underground fence you were reared on. That Ritual Carnage covered Onslaught rather than DRI speaks volumes.
There was only ever a CD and Pic Disc LP version of this release to my awareness and it's still available from Osmose Productions.
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