Album review: Death Pill – Death Pill

Death Pill are intensely furious. There is nothing on the Ukrainian trio’s debut that isn’t seething with anger, or delivered with boiling vitriol. And it was made before their neighbours to the East mounted an unprovoked and illegal attack on their homeland. A caustic mix of hardcore, thrash and punk, the band play like they’ve got one hand in a plug socket and the other balled up into a fist, not stopping for breath as they throw out nine songs in 23 minutes.  Opening track Dirty Rotten Youth is a riot of speed and screaming from Mariana Navrotskaya, Miss Revolt is 88 seconds of speedy hardcore rage, and the thrashing Kill The Traitors sounds like Kreator’s bratty kid sisters. It’s viscerally thrilling and completely brilliant,  But it’s what ...

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