“In Fear We Trust” wades into traditional metal territory, with very much a NWOBHM feel and a sharp edge something that always grabs my attention and it certainly warrants repeat listens. The tempo and groove made this an instant favorite months ago, and that hasn’t changed. Clayton Cagle (guitar), Kody Barba (bass), and Ben Smith (drums) sound like they’ve been playing beside Ramos for years, most notably on “Lethal Injustice” up next. Opener “Living In Extinction” gets the ball rolling with killer riffs and some broad, sweeping solos, something the group always does very well.
With a new line-up behind him, vocalist/guitarist and founding member Julz Ramos sounds like a man on a mission to bring the band’s brand of kickass thrash to your ears by any means necessary. Which brings us to the album many of us have been waiting for: Fear Beyond Lunacy, out October 30 on the very same label.
In fact, after seeing them live/hanging/drinking with them on more than one occasion in Dallas I can safely say that HATCHET is just as exciting on and off the stage as they are on record. These guys had that vintage thrash sound from days of yore but with a modern-day badassness, much like their contemporaries in HAVOK and WARBRINGER, so it doesn’t sound stale or dated. To say I was floored is putting it mildly. Not long after I first started working with The End Records I was turned onto a Bay Area Thrash Metal band named HATCHET and their just-released sophomore disc Dawn of the End.
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