Shatter Messiah - God Burns Like Flesh (2007)

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Artist : Shatter Messiah
Country : USA
Release : God Burns Like Flesh
Year : 2007
Genre : Heavy Metal
File Type : mp3 320

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One of the better power thrash bands you are likely to have never heard, thanks to no U.S. label and virtually zero U.S. distribution, Akron, Ohio's SHATTER MESSIAH have just released their sophomore effort, "God Burns Like Flesh", on Germany's Dockyard 1. The "selling point" for the band has been that guitarist, producer, and chief songwriter Curran Murphy did time as second guitarist for both NEVERMORE and ANNIHILATOR. Unsurprisingly, the down-tuned, accomplished power-thrash style of riffing is heard all over the new long player, as well as last year's "Never to Play the Servant". And yes, the songs, including Greg Wagner's singing style, do owe a debt to the Seattle heavyweights, a fact that Murphy does not dispute. Now that we've gotten that out of the way, what is most important to convey is that SHATTER MESSIAH is a modern heavy metal machine and "God Burns Like Flesh" is a damn fine slab of molten metal.

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Shatter Messiah - Never To Play The Servant (2006)

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Artist : Shatter Messiah
Country : USA
Release : Never To Play The Servant
Year : 2006
Genre : Heavy Metal
File Type : mp3 320

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If you like progressive "US" Power/Thrash, you'll like the first album of Shatter Messiah. Composed of two unreleased EP, "Never To Play The Servant" is for me one of the good surprises of the year 2006. Like with Nevermore, the music of Shatter Messiah is composed of Heavy Technical complex riffs with in addition amazing guitars soli. Also, if it's always really complex, it's also really catchy with these kind of great Thrash riffs that will stay in your head. You'll be able to find also a weird dark and tortured atmosphere on the majority of the songs and that's really cool. A bit like Warrel Dane, Greg Wagner, the singer, is able to sing with a clean beautiful voice but also with a thrashy and a Death Metal one.

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