The thing with bands like Brazilian thrash outfit Nervosa is that you know you’re going to always get what you expect. You should already be prepared for Perpetual Chaos before you’ve even hit play on this, their latest thirteen-track disc. Four albums into their career now, the Brazilian thrash machine show no signs of letting up as they batter through this forty-five-minute affair. Vicious from the outset and picking up influences from the early European thrash scene setters like Sodom and Destruction, the album pummels into life with the appropriately named “Venomous.” A neck-snapping opener, “Venomous” is just under four minutes of ferocity and the perfect appetizer for what is to follow. Raging through the ferocious “Guided By Evil” and “People of the Abyss,” by the time the album rea...
