SAMURAI CRUNCH! BANZAI! GRIEF OF WAR VIDEO PREMIER!
Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at 12:38pm by MetalSucksTokyo thrash disciples Grief of War – who call their kamikaze brand of thrash “samurai crunch” – return with a vengeance on their new album Worship, which will be released on July 7 via that bastion-of-stellar-metal Prosthetic Records. We’re proud to host the world premier of the video for the record’s title track. The band’s MySpace page has a stream of another new song, “Disorder,” if you’re jonesin’ for some more Japanese thrash after checking out the new video below.
Any of our 241 readers who leave in Tokoyo or nearby should definitely check out Grief of War live at their July 20th CD release show at Explosion in Tokyo. Banzai!
Leave in Tokyo?
And has Gojira ever played Tokyo?
I love “jonesin’” by the way
When we’re jonesin’ for carpet, we’re jonesin’ for it right now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgCdUPvF_D0
Not terrible. Not terribly original, with the 90 second intro and Anthrax style “group yell” chorus, but it’s hard to be original in this genre. But not bad.
I guess you don’t expect a lot of originality from old-school thrash, but this sounds like most other thrash bands out there. It was alright… nothing new. I hope the sound is better on the actual album, though.
And that video was cheesy as fuck. Can we agree that the video concept of ’stand around in abandoned factory of some sort and make scary faces’ is officially completely played out?
Also played out… air raid sirens.
Your average thrash revival song. Not a bad song at all, just kinda bland, thrash by the numbers.
If these guys were playing live near me, I’d see them. If I had the chance to join a local thrash revival group, I totally would, but yeah. Anybody expecting something mindblowingly original should really look elsewhere besides the thrash revival movement.
Also Fastkill is a much much better japanese thrash band.
Great band. Not just some throwback stuff like the American kids that just found out about Exodus
Lots of Japanese bands have some Asian-flavors, but this is just…
Whatever…100% thrash is really not my thing.
“Any of our 241 readers…”
I thought it was less than 50. lol