:: Truth Corroded - Upon The Warlords Crawl

Truth Corroded

After a lengthy period of four years of inactivity, South Australian thrash band Truth Corroded reintroduced themselves to the metal scene with their sophomore effort ‘Our Enemy Is The Weapon’ in 2005. ‘Our Enemy Is The Weapon’ represented a huge change of sound for the band, with the maturity of their years away clearly heard throughout the album. Needless to say, the album was a huge success, with the band continuously criss-crossing the country in front of ever-growing gig goers.

Three years on and the band are back once again with ‘Upon The Warlords Crawl’. And much like the growth between their first two releases, the band’s third full-length effort is a huge step in every conceivable way.
‘Crown The Apocalypse’ is an absolutely crushing opener, and showcases just how much Truth Corroded has improved over their three years on the road. The fast paced blackened thrash like riffing is every bit as impressive as the drumming, while Jason North’s demonic growls and scathing lyrical message has never before sounded so potent and determined.

The equally fast ‘The Immolation Seen’ is as every bit as damaging as the opener, with some additional memorable lead work from Grieve adding some melody to the hammering tune, while the groove laden pair of ‘Salute The Horrors’ and ‘Decimate’ are as impressive as anything to emerge from either Lamb Of God or DevilDriver in recent times. ‘Buried Alive By Demons’ and ‘When God Is Murder’ are by far the album’s most anthem like tracks with their catchy choruses, huge chugging riffs and stunning leads breaks, while the frantically paced ‘We Are Failed!’, ‘The Waste That Is Their Word’ and ‘The Disfiguring’ counterbalance by completely thrashing out. Finishing up the album is the epic ‘Despair Your Black Earth’, where with the help of Double Dragon vocalist Lee Gardiner, the band experiment with slower and darker grooves, with amazing results.

As impressive as ‘Our Enemy Is The Weapon’ was three years ago, Truth Corroded have well and truly outdone themselves with ‘Upon The Warlords Crawl’. And given the success that they had with the last album, it doesn’t take a genius to understand that ‘Upon The Warlords Crawl’ is going to really take the band to the next level in no time at all.