HARM – Demonic Alliance

There’s nothing like three piece thrash metal ripping it up the way Norway’s Harm does on this second album “Demonic Alliance”. 5 years between albums can seem like an eternity to the underground, but songs like “Demon”, “New Brutal Vitality” and “Bleeding Rust” prove these gentlemen play like a well oiled machine. Steffan Schulze’s bass rumbles like the best of the German and American scene, and his vocals have a lot in common with the acidic Schmier from Destruction.

I have to question the digipack DVD that includes 20 minutes of material – as two versions of a “Demon” video plus recording and making of footage may have been best served on social media channels to whet the appetite of the album. Otherwise Harm stick with the conventional thrash mentality that makes this genre appealing to metalheads around the world – fast, furious and with no sign of broad base acceptance. Those who miss older Destruction, Sodom and possibly “Beneath The Remains” and before Sepultura shall scoop up “Demonic Alliance” with little twisting of the ears.

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