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Grizzly Butts
Grizzly Butts
" They soldier on throughout this EP, achieving their tightest and most brutal recording to date with some intensifying focus on pensive, morbid thrash songs in the tradition of ye olde threshold between 80’s death metal and early 90’s thrash metal precision....Throughout the whole of the full listen it becomes clear that Aggravator are bent on crafting more complex and nuanced riff ideas, stretching out architectural builds atop jagged ‘arena thrash’ breakdowns for a wailing hit of brutal thrash in the spirit of ’91 but with the fidelity of 2019."
Rating: 4/5
Album: Aggravator
On The Road Webzine
Anderson Pulegio
"listen to the first track "Desensitized Devotion" to see these influences, in fact this song is excellent, a first-rate Thrash metal, the best of this EP without a doubt...."while "Carnal Forms" and "Frantic Repressions" show up with intense guitar riffs and the EP ends with "Suspended Agonal Breathing "that also stands out.
In general this EP is very good..."
Rating: 7.5/10
Album: AGGRAVATOR
*Original text in Portuguese*
Teeth of The Divine
Kristoffer Allred
"the one undeniable fact is that Aggravator, both band and album, brilliantly rip like it’s 1989...The EP strikes on a more personal level as well, as Aggravator features the lead guitar/solo work of late guitarist Jesse Lopez, who passed away last year at the age of 29. It’s always great to see a band triumph in the face of perils and hard times and especially triumph in putting out such great material that features and honors a fallen brother. Regardless of whatever the future may bring, the reality of the here and now is that Aggravator has struck gold with this EP. Though how could they have not? When you can produce material that has a South of Heaven-circa like quality, but with an authorship talent akin to Schuldiner, Azagthoth, Shaefer, Mameli and the likes, great songs are destined to happen."
Rating: N/A
Album: AGGRAVATOR
The Metal Crypt
Luxi Lahtinen
"you get an EP that, despite its brevity, skins most modern releases three times its length alive. Some top-notch songwriting holds it all together, sporting enough attitude and ferocity to make posers within a 50-mile radius flee in sheer terror."
Rating: 4.5/5
Album: AGGRAVATOR
Rock & Metal In My Blood
Davide Cillo
"Having listened to this work really left me with positive feelings, I think it was really a pleasant discovery and this state of happiness for having met a new band is not easy to prove. To be honest, it happens more and more rarely to listen to something that strikes you, especially by browsing through the often valid Thrash Underground bands, but often also unoriginal and similar. The Aggravators, who in truth often go beyond the "Kreator threshold" by playing a real Thrash / Death, have great merits, first of all the one of being interesting to listen to....Believe me, I really listened to so many of these underground works at the turn of the Thrash and Death, and very often they start, evolve and all conclude in the same way: all the pieces, from the first to the last, are equally fast and similar, without no capacity for change and evolution. The Aggravators maintain this sound, which is very important, they never upset the characteristics of the work, which were, are and will remain those. Despite this, they manage to evolve, to propose songs that are always different in their similarity, to change speed and keep the listener fresh and active. Good guys. All of them, all up to the task. I recommend to all lovers of the genre this release, which for me deserves a full 8. task height."
Rating: 8/10
Album: AGGRAVATOR
*Orignial text in Italian*
Metal Forever
"The riffs refer to the golden phase of the genre, even touched with 30 years of difference and cause a feeling of nostalgia, filling the gap that was left by other bands...In the most, it only remains to praise the work of the band and wish that the walk can be full of presentations and lots"
Rating: N/A
Album: AGGRAVATOR
*Original text in Portuguese*
In The Pit Metal Music Zine
A.K.K.K
"To Municipal Waste, Lich King or other such groups of songs and dance, many are falling down on power, others just like or know each other. However, one should ask: Why is Aggravator not surrounded by such cult as the above-mentioned teams? I invite you to the review.......If you like thrash metal that will take you and freak out against the wall, like Whiplash and old Kreator, and you will treat it with Massacre style, then boldly expand your collection with this album."
*Original Text In Polish*
Rating: 9/10
Album: STERILE EXISTENCE
Cult Metal Flix
Cult
"Energetic and aggressive, bordering on death territories, this sporting vicious vocals dripping in spite. Plentiful nods to Slayer, Kreator, Exodus and Destruction makes for an album that’s exciting and dangerously infectious from the first track to the last."
Rating: N/A
Album: STERILE EXISTENCE
Toilet Ov Hell
Simon Phoenix
"Guitarist Derek Jones commands the mic sounding like a fevered hound chewing on some goddamn sandpaper. And when those grooves snake out from within the 800mph stomping, like on “High Impact Homicides”, you will tear out plaster from walls. Angery as fuck."
Rating: N/A
Album: STERILE EXISTENCE
Metal Cunt
Necrogrinder
Sterile Existence is an excellent bill and to put all the fans of Thrash hands, as grumpy as they are. Aggravator pulled out an album that could install them permanently in the landscape of American Thrash Metal alongside Toxic Holocaust, Lich King or Havok to name a few. They well deserve
*Original Text In French*
Rating: N/A
Album: STERILE EXISTENCE
Cadaver Garden
Viralstampede
"if you are looking for some good neck twisting, violent and utterly destructive thrash, then you don’t have to look any further than this record right here. Sterile Existence is nine total songs of pure thrash that just about kicks your teeth out every chance it gets and even when it does finally knock your teeth out it doesn’t stop there. This record is a shredding monster and one song rolls right after another and they just don’t quit until you are out cold."
Rating: N/A
Album: STERILE EXISTENCE
The Metal Observer
Christopher Santaniello
"Sterile Existence ups the ante somewhat further, striking while the thrash/death iron is hot and delivering a slab of molten punishment replete with endearing European influence along with more brutal, Demolition Hammer-esque sensibilities."
Rating: 8/10
Album: STERILE EXISTENCE
Heavy Metal Maniac
Sergio Vinci "Kosmos Reversum"
"like the furious "Sterile Existence" or other splinters very dangerous as "High Impact Homicides", where it really seems to take a step back thirty years, when they went out records like "Reign in Blood" or "Pleasure to Kill"!
For these reasons, and my affection for that period, I would recommend this album to all the thrashers that such claim malice, devotion and violence without half measures or winks to modernism most vulgar and fake."
*Original review in Italian*
Rating: 68/100
Album: STERILE EXISTENCE
Soulgrinder Zine
Paul Caravasi
"If you don’t own this release and are a thrash metal fan, get it right away. You’d be amazed at most of the sounds coming out of your speakers. 10 tracks and this album deserves mighty recognition for, stick with Aggravator and you’ll be fine. This album is pure thrash metal created by amazing musicians."
Rating: N/A
Album: POPULACE DESTRUCTOR
Metal Trenches
"Everything about this album is designed to rock your face off. The very deliberate pacing of the drums is impossible for your neck muscles to deny...if you were looking for some honest to goodness thrash this year, you've found it. It's not in heavy supply these days, at least not in this pure, unrefined form."
Ranking: 8.3/10
Album: POPULACE DESTRUCTOR
Manic Mosh Magazine
Paul van der Burght
"The riffs are crunching, rhythmic and the allround guitar-flash is textbook Thrash. This is one very convincing and entertaining slab of Thrash Metal that moves somewhere in between Slayer, Death Angel, and Testament without sounding anything like a copy. Great."
Rating: N/A
Album: POPULACE DESTRUCTOR
Devils Gate Media
Jools Green
"Sound wise, it's a chunk of honest, no frills thrash that's well varied in tempo, and well delivered, with good, vitriolic vocals, and plenty of shredding. What more could you want?..."It gets even better with the hypnotic 'Fleshwork', one of my favourites of the album. It's thrash, but with a sexy groove, along with superb lead work..."
Rating: N/A
Album: POPULACE DESTRUCTOR
Metal Mundus
Ray
My favorites is a great opener, sharp, strong and uncompromising, "Born In Uniform", heavy, cylindrical, capital number in the style of Wizard - "Fatalist", starting with wonderfully sounding bass, expanded the number of the title "Populace Destructor" but once again repeat that all the songs are great. For good album comes out also its length. The album lasts nearly half an hour, but the dose of such a music absolutely enough to get her glutes to enjoy ears perfect, cheeky, but with great class zagranym thrash
*Original review in Polish*
Rating: 9/10
Album: POPULACE DESTRUCTOR
Kvlt Magazine
Thomas
"Destructor populace is gifted with the rough sound, so this album is necessary for the thrash metal claw......Aggravator And it did record a good album thrash. I praise them for that because many others is not given even come close to their level. I am waiting for the next album."
Orginal review in Polish
Rating: 7/10
Album: POPULACE DESTRUCTOR
Sangwitok Zine
Mr. Ed Sangwitok
"The catchy banging riffs, killer solo parts, harsh screaming and the marching drum beats. I think this album will stay a bit longer in my player...Thrash metal should be played in the original form without being mixed by new style. You cannot rape the purity of the old thrash metal style. Totally recomended!!"
Rating: N/A
Album: POPULACE DESTRUCTOR
Demons Report
Vladamir Cincovic (Sapron)
"On this album you can hear technical compatibility that is brought to the ideal, acoustics are great, the production is phenomenal, also on the album it can be heard and specific thrash metal vocal that absolutely demonstrates the strength of trash metal.This album takes you in the world of truth, destruction, death, evil."
Rating: 10/10
Album: POPULACE DESTRUCTOR
The Power of Metal
Markus Falkenberg
"Old school thrash metal. Definitely old school thrash metal........"Particularly the first song “Born In Uniform” reminds me a lot of Kreator with its brutal speed, solos and the singer’s style of shouting out the lyrics. I can easily imagine this song becoming a fan favourite."
Rating: 6/10
Album: POPULACE DESTRUCTOR
