Forgotten Gems: Slaughter-Strappado

Diabolic Force/Fringe
1987

This is the only band named Slaughter you need to know about. "Strappado" isn't an album aimed at 14 year old girls. No, this Slaughter plays extreme thrash and this album is brutal and downright nasty. Raw and ugly (and punk tinged to boot) Canada's Slaughter were the sort of band that would come to your town and destroy it before they were even mid-way through an opening number. Falling somewhere along the lines of early Sepultura, Sarcofago, Death Strike, Hellhammer, Sacrifice, Possessed or Death this band featured two vocalists (Dave Hewson - Vocals, Guitar and Terry Sadler - Vocals, Bass) and made it their mission in life to play bloodied thrash. "Strappado" isn't so much an album as it is 9 tracks of pure death metal as played by a bunch of garage punk thrashers. If you dare call yourself a thrash fan or death fan and don't have "Strappado" in your collection then you should just go track down the other Slaughter and rock out to "Fly to the Angels". This is metal. This is sonic assault. No band was every like these lads and no one will ever be like them again.