Whenever a new year comes around, I like to sit down and try and think of what bands I like have new albums coming out or at least expected to. I knew Suicidal Angels has something due any time now given their release schedule across the last few albums, and it was, easily, the only thrash album I was actively looking forward to. There are some bands that just can’t do wrong somehow and, for me, it feels like Suicidal Angels are to become such an act as it’s with their brand new album that they bring forth their magnificent classic-sounding style in yet another smashing album.

What astounds me about this record is how, as someone who does not create music, similar it sounds to previous efforts from Suicidal Angels, but, yet, it still manages to sound brand new and feel just as devastating as it delightfully bounds from one bloody brawl to the next. I’ve given plenty of other works flack for not doing anything different and thus sounding stale by the time we come to the end of this album, but it’s right off the bat that “Years of Aggression” proves itself to be another instance of Suicidal Angels somehow capturing lightning in a bottle twice. There’s so much power and speed within the nine tracks of this album that, still, we’ve heard before but it’s the flair that Suicidal Angels have brought before that makes it work so much better than any other Slayer worshipping band that we see all the time. It’s with riffs mixed in coupled with a massive presence that never once gives way as everything feels so much bigger than what they’ve done before while simultaneously staying on the same level playing field that is just as enjoyable to explore as it did on day one. But don’t let repetition leave you feeling “Years of Aggression” has lost any single ounce of the power that Suicidal Angels have been dishing out for years now, and to say they didn’t hit the bullseye with this new effort would be a flat out lie worthy of damnation.

Such a record like this already has found its crowd already with how well this band is known in the global thrash market, but that doesn’t mean the sound of Suicidal Angels deserves to be stopped there. Everything about “Years of Aggression” brings together all the elements that make modern thrash such a treat to listen to from the undeniable power to the unstoppable attitude, and it’s a vicious piece that just keeps on giving no matter how many times I listen to it.

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