DISARRAY
“Religious Disease”
Album Review by Iron Mathew

10/10

Disarray are a thrash metal band from Sweden formed in 2022 releasing their debut album ‘Evil Is Reborn’ in 2023, and sophomore album ‘Religious Disease’ in 2024.

Storming out of Stockholm two years ago, Disarray burst onto the world’s thrash metal stage with aggression, anger and menace, the band rippling the genre’s waves with their blistering debut – and just a year later the Swedish bruisers are back to bludgeon everyone with a ferocious thrash metal tsunami, Disarray’s new album a savage fifty minutes and ten songs! The bands line-up consists of vocalist and lead guitarist Lucas Lee, drummer Morgan Ottenvang, bass player Edvin Mossfeldt, and rhythm guitarist Valter Ernerot – ‘Religious Disease’ roaring outta the blocks at high velocity with the ferocious ‘Forbidden Of Speech’. And right from the off the head bang ability is through the roof, as are the levels of menace and aggression, the band delivering a brutal barrage of thrash to stun and amaze every listener and thrash metaller on the planet!

A sensational opening to the bands new album, Disarray march on without breaking a stride courtesy of ‘Nightmarish Gaze’ – the power, pace and purpose here fucking phenomenal! The speed too, ‘Nightmarish Gaze’ storming on with all the savage gusto of bands such as Mezzrow, Sadus and Vio-Lence – the Swedish thrashers setting the world of thrash metal alight with a devastating opening brace! The brutality pouring outta ‘Religious Disease’ is barbaric, bruising too, ‘Bound To Kill’ increasing the speed of the album to become faster than the speed of fucking light! And at 186,000 miles per second, the speed of light is fast – very fast! But so too are Disarray, the band just a blur as they hurtle across the land to leave only desolation in their wake, ‘Hell’s Fire’ entering the fray with a more “traditional” heavy metal feel – Disarray planting one “foot on the monitor” to adopt the iconic metal pose! Attracting metallers as well as thrashers to the bands soundscape, ‘Hell’s Fire’ is one of those genre spanning songs that grabs the attentions of a multitude of listeners.

And now that the band has a tight grip on listeners attentions they’re in no mood to let ’em go anytime soon, the album storming on with the phenomenally fast paced ‘Psychosis’ – the in your face and immensely aggressive attitude of Teutonic thrash shining through much brighter than a thousand suns. You all know the legacy of Teutonic thrash metal right, and the four bands that kick started it all back in the eighties – Kreator, Sodom, Destruction and Tankard. The intensity level of the album since it began has been relentless, ‘Religious Disease’ an unforgiving and all conquering thrash metal rampage, ‘Guilty Until Proven Innocent’ making a sinister entrance, building tension and fear to unbearable levels before the band hit the accelerator hard to roar off at top speed! Dropping a gear soon after, Disarray are constantly changing gears here, ‘Guilty Until Proven Innocent’ swinging this way and that all across thrash metal territory, the band leaving no corner unvisited or any stone unturned in their quest to deliver savage brutality of the most fearsome nature! Quest achieved methinks – ‘Realize You’re Already Dead’ making a dramatic entrance to slam listeners through the wall and into next fucking week with tremendous force! A force that’s greater than gravity, Disarray shuddering the ground with a mighty thunder stomp that may just knock planet Earth off its axis!

The levels of aggression and menace heard up to this point have been so high I think I just saw the International Space Station – and at two hundred and fifty miles up that’s high! Disarray maintain the albums phenomenal speed with ‘Apostate’, and increase the thunder to new heights too, the band delivering a bruising array of bone snapping skull crushing thrash metal. Local accident and emergency services are gonna be busy later, waiting rooms full of metalheads with broken bones, bruises and dislocated neck vertebrae – but treatment for all that is gonna have to wait for a minute or two! Nine actually – for there’s still two more songs to come, the first of which is the title song ‘Religious Disease’. And still no let up in the bands all consuming thrash metal attack, ‘Religious Disease’ (the song) proudly straddling genre boundaries once again – this time the genres of thrash and speed with just a little death and black metal creeping in too! And let’s be honest, there’s been a little death and black metal sprinkled throughout the album from start to finish, the album finishing with a re-recorded version of ‘Inhuman Reign’ from the bands debut album (released last year). This version is beefier, and contains more fire, thunder and brimstone than the original to round off the album as it began, at a ferocious high velocity with a tonne of aggression and menace!

Overall, a blistering high speed rampage of savage thrash metal with immense levels of brutality and head bang ability.

TRACKLIST

Forbidden Of Speech
Nightmarish Gaze
Bound To Kill
Hell’s Fire
Psychosis
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Realize You’re Already Dead
Apostate
Religious Disease
Inhuman Reign

https://disarray2.bandcamp.com/

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