This old dog has not grown tired or weak. Deströyer 666 is still fucking cool. Wildfire presents the krieg machine of K.K. Warslut at its finest. It’s been nearly seven years since Defiance came out. That was a different band entirely. K.K. hasn’t been twiddling his thumbs, and he hasn’t lost his sense of direction as blackened thrash’s unsung Australian. He’s come back and delivers with a pounder on every track. If you are familiar with the music of Deströyer 666, then you know that the signature sound is a really visceral style of metal that has its own distinct brand to it. It’s really from the gutter and hell. On top of their mastery of mean aesthetic, K.K. Warslut also writes some incredibly good songs, and has a very fine talent for creating a really dark and exciting mood.
Although Deströyer 666 are characteristic for fast, fast, fast music for the catacombs, the band has also churned out really mellow brooding numbers that guarantee a few hairs will stand up. That’s extreme metal at its finest. Where can these hessians go wrong?
With tracks like “White Line Fever,” you get the sense that K.K. is still living fast, and proud of his lifestyle as a midnight marauder. The wolf hessians hit the street night after night living for the hunt.
“Die You Fucking Pig” is the anti-religious rhetoric that fuels it all. Fucking hypocrites and righteous bastards – leave the hall.
Perhaps my favorite track on the album is the foreboding conclusion. “Tamam Shud” spends most of its time building up to an epic finale that carries the listener away with a desperate cry to escape from this mortal coil. As the song says, ‘there’s nothing left that I can say, please take me away.’ The name of the song itself means ‘finished’ in Persian. Although I don’t think this is an allusion to the end of K.K. Warslut, if it were I wouldn’t blame him. After all, how could one live in a world gone so far down the shitter? Only with metal albums like this.
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