BODYFARM – “BATTLE BREED”

Dutch death metal band Bodyfarm blast out of the gates on their latest full-length album, Battle Breed. Fellow Dutchman and legendary death metal vocalist Martin Van Drunnen makes a cameo on the first track, surprising some folks who aren’t expecting it. Bodyfarm play death metal made famous by Thanatos and Asphyx – they start out at a thrashy breakneck pace before slowing down in the middle of the song, ending it by going full-on thrash again. The catchy shreds and death metal licks are classic death metal though, not quite thrash. Bodyfarm may not stray far from the template at all on most of their eleven tracks, but nobody said they had to in the first place.