Finland’s Vitriolic are getting ready to unleash their second album, Black Steel Vengeance. It is due on January 24th, on CD and vinyl LP formats via the Dying Victims Productions record label. With CD and cassette tape versions for North America out through Headsplit Records. In advance of the new release, the band have shared a promo medley. Check it out below.
Hailing from Tampere, Vitriolic raise high the iron fist of their homeland’s oft-overlooked blackthrash scene. From the paradigmatic likes of Urn and Flame on to the next generation of Evil Angel, Sadokist, and labelmates Rapid, the power-trio of Vitriolic have been fighting the metal fight for the past five years. Initially, the band self-released their first couple EPs and a live album, and then made their full-length debut in 2021 with Renegade Ascension via Headsplit. And while some songs from their second album were forecast in demo form the last few years, at last arrives Black Steel Vengeance.
No more perfectly titled, Black Steel Vengeance is Vitriolic at their rowdiest and most powerful. Honed on the live front, Black Steel Vengeance is a ten-track assault of old-school, riff-driven metal. Black, speed, thrash, separately or all at once: Vitriolic let loose and live lawlessly on this 41-minute firestorm. Truly, this album is a testament to the burning underground spirit – theirs, yours, everyone’s who believes in Hell’s heavy metal – remaining grounded in the dirt of the past but digging up new graves that smell rottenly unfresh. The flag of hate of the original Teutonic Big Three flies proudly here, but Vitriolic manage to twist the knife in different-yet-honorable ways. As such, Black Steel Vengeance is equally at home in 1985, 1999, and 2025, such is its timeless gallop ‘n’ thrust. Raise your sword!
Black Steel Vengeance tracklisting:
01 Crown of Fire
02 The Eternal Return
03 Death Unconquered
04 Martial Spirit
05 Envenom Katharsis
06 Hellspawn – Heir to Darkness
07 The Hunt
08 Scorn is the Son of Defeeat
09 Trench Raider
10 Black Steel Vengeance
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