It’s hard to predict how good an artist will be during these highly unpredictable, pandemic times, but X by Artillery is top notch, in fact it’s the best melodic thrash / power metal record of 2021. It drops May 7 via Metal Blade Records. The best way to describe X is pure heavy metal, elevated beyond what I’ve come to expect from this genre in the past. I think the following quote will shed more light on this: Says guitarist Michael Stützer: “We wanted to have the typical Artillery trademarks, like the riffs and hook lines in the usual combination together with aggression and melody. We always try to combine melodic thrash metal with elements from the heavy sounds of the 70s and the 80s, and this time with new elements in some of the songs.” Quite frankly when I think of thrash, bands li...
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