Formed in early 2009, Eradication haven’t wasted a second in showing us exactly what they’re capable of. Having already taken on the likes of The Boy Will Drown, Ingested and U.S. metal giants All Shall Perish on the stage this year the Essex quintet are currently making a name for themselves as the ones to look out for over the next 12 months.

It’s hard to pigeon-hole the band’s sound into one or even a handful of genres but the curious yet somewhat accurate; Death-tinged Melodic Thrash Metal is as close as one can get to define the bands own take on a selection of the most vicious elements of the metal sub-genres.

Drawing clear influence from such genre defining bands as The Black Dahlia Murder, Lamb of God, Chimaira and some early Metallica, these guys are a mouth-watering taste of fresh blood in the dried up corpse of the metal scene. Eradication are setting standards by the minute, high standards.

A brutal formula of Riff, Shred, Chug, Blast, Growl sees the band tear through everything in sight without a glance over their shoulders or a shred of remorse for what or who they see themselves faced with next.

From the frighteningly intense opening riffage of Rendered Useless to the painfully epic fade out of Extinction Is Inbound, this short but sweet EP is mind-blowing throughout and will leave you begging for more. Any die hard metal-heads who are yet to check these guys out are simply mad.

Wasting no time with boring intros, the EP jumps in head first with Rendered Useless featuring a frenzy of frantic riffing, furious drumming and gut wrenching dual vocals.
Eradication breeze seamlessly over earth-shattering breakdowns only to tear they way into the next skip-ridden, head bang inducing piece of thrash riff-work, worthy of the likes of Unearth and MachineHead.

The second track sees front-man Aston Reynolds spitting out a barrage of the most spine-tingling lyrics at a rate which leaves you reaching for an oxygen mask just listening to it, before a jaw-droppingly epic (and frankly spooky!) mid-section displays the bands ability to incorporate the most tear-jerking combination of melody and harmony as well as bringing a much welcome break from the savagery of the rest of the EP.

The band seem to really stick to their guns and do their own thing here. No pig vocals, no in-audibly detuned guitars, no synths, no gimmicks, no shit. This is just straight up Thrash Metal. Eradication are no slaves to trend and do not follow suit.
Extinction Is Inbound is just a taste of what is to come from Eradication and believe me, the next release from this band will turn heads, fast...and who said thrash was dead?!

Listen NOW (and available for FREE download soon!) at www.myspace.com/eradication. You will not be disappointed.

9/10

GC
TD Artist Management

Nice review, not thrash At the Gates clone if anything.

Tom, just accept it mate. Thrash is dead, long live Death-core. if mutant dont start going with the times you'll never be good, i want to see fringes and fore-arm tattoos tomorrow. Let Jon start writing the lyrics about his girlfriend, and you will need to practise your American accent singing a bit.

Good luck!

Re-post!

Not a thrash band, death-core. Wrong forum mate.

"Worthy of the likes of Unearth and Machine Head" - You clearly don't know what thrash is, if they are the bands you are using as examples of thrash bands, you need to head over to Wikipedia and do some research. We have had many death-core peddlers pretending to be thrash over the years on this forum but wow, you are definitely the most ignorant and misguided.

If any of the guys in ERADICATION (no hate to you guys, I'm sure you would get mad if you saw TD Management's post) read this... Fire your Management guy, he is making you look like complete tits.

I have no problem with people pushing new bands but please don't be as wrong as this guy!

Hang on, upon reading this a second time, this HAS to be a joke right? This is so bad, it can't be true can it? Check out these nuggets of pure genius:


"Drawing clear influence from such genre defining bands as The Black Dahlia Murder, Lamb of God, Chimaira and some early Metallica"

"Eradication breeze seamlessly over earth-shattering breakdowns only to tear they way into the next skip-ridden, head bang inducing piece of thrash riff-work"

"The band seem to really stick to their guns and do their own thing here"

"This is just straight up Thrash Metal"

"Eradication are no slaves to trend and do not follow suit"

"...and believe me, the next release from this band will turn heads, fast...and who said thrash was dead?!"

WHAT THE FUCK!

White Hazzard Part III

Hahahaha. A highlight for me was "painfully epic fade out"!

AARGH, the horrible pain of the volume decreasing!

James wrote:Hahahaha. A highlight for me was "painfully epic fade out"!

AARGH, the horrible pain of the volume decreasing!

"no synths"

I like synths

TD Artist Management wrote:Drawing clear influence from such genre defining bands as The Black Dahlia Murder, Lamb of God, Chimaira and some early Metallica...

Genre-defining bands, eh? Crikey - what were we listening to for the 15-20 years before The Black Dahlia Murder, Lamb of God and Chimaira came along and defined Thrash?

I'm nearly dissapointed that I can't access Myspace to listen to them, oh wait...

TD Artist Management wrote: Any die hard metal-heads who are yet to check these guys out are simply mad.

"Wibble"

Ppffffwahaha, thanks for that, nearly spat yoghurt everywhere!

(there's nothing more metal than yoghurt, especially Ski apricot)

OK - I took it on my shoulders to follow the link and listen to this, to save anyone else that burden. The music's not good but it's not quite as bad as the toss-laden management "statement". Certainly not thrash in the least, though - they sound like every other deathcore band these days. I'm sure the band are competent musicians but it's just not my cup of tea. And as Tom said, I think this is the wrong forum. My favourite line is ....

Having already taken on the likes of The Boy Will Drown

Who the fuck are they ? Any relation to The Goat Might Fart ?

phodg wrote:The Goat Might Fart

Somebody please make this band.

shit band no fans

Resilience Records wrote:Tom, just accept it mate. Thrash is dead, long live Death-core. if mutant dont start going with the times you'll never be good, i want to see fringes and fore-arm tattoos tomorrow. Let Jon start writing the lyrics about his girlfriend, and you will need to practise your American accent singing a bit.

Good luck!

All this time, and I never realised that what The Rauncher really needed was a big fat breakdown thrown in the middle of it. Maybe some gang shout vocals as well. Oh, and definately blastbeats, cos they're so br00tal.