Artillery

Nuance is not a term normally associated with thrash metal, but between the infectious melodic hooks and the varied velocity factor, this iconic Danish outfit has brought just that to the table without losing any of the style’s inherent intensity…

The last Artillery album My Blood was lacking to say the least, so it was with a little trepidation that I approached their latest opus. A slight shift in personnel would see Søren Nico Adamsen and longtime drummer Carsten Nielsen leaving the fold, although replacing them would be the more-than-capable sticksman Josua Madsen, and a relatively new talent in vocalist Michael Bastholm Dahl…

The last Artillery album My Blood was lacking to say the least, so it was with a little trepidation that I approached their latest opus. A slight shift in personnel would see Søren Nico Adamsen and longtime drummer Carsten Nielsen leaving the fold, although replacing them would be the more-than-capable sticksman Josua Madsen, and a relatively new talent in vocalist Michael Bastholm Dahl…

In 1864 the Danish army was defeated by an alliance of the military forces of Prussia and Austria. The decisive battle took place at the "Düppeler Schanzen", a Danish fortress. It seems as if the defenders did not have effective cannons in order to keep the attackers under control…

With By Inheritance, way back in 1990 it seemed Artillery reached peaks in both musical and technical terms, combining strong melodies and considerable finesse with innate aggression, increasing the difficulty of arrangements and achieving a higher instrumental level than ever before…

Artillery is perhaps one of the most iconic and reliable thrash metal bands out there, and definitely one of Denmark’s finest. Their three first records rank among the best of all time in the genre for me and a LOT of people…

Because the band risked experimenting with some bold new directions on 1990's By Inheritance, the album usually gets a bad rap from grumpy thrash purists and even some Artillery fans. But, with the benefit of hindsight, Artillery's third album frequently sounds like their finest hour, as much for boasting some of the most distinctive and imaginative songs of their career as for incorporating textural variety at a time when many of the Danish quintet's contemporaries were wallowing in stagnation…

Because the band risked experimenting with some bold new directions on 1990's By Inheritance, the album usually gets a bad rap from grumpy thrash purists and even some Artillery fans. But, with the benefit of hindsight, Artillery's third album frequently sounds like their finest hour, as much for boasting some of the most distinctive and imaginative songs of their career as for incorporating textural variety at a time when many of the Danish quintet's contemporaries were wallowing in stagnation…

With By Inheritance, way back in 1990 it seemed Artillery reached peaks in both musical and technical terms, combining strong melodies and considerable finesse with innate aggression, increasing the difficulty of arrangements and achieving a higher instrumental level than ever before…

After making quite a name for themselves in tape-trading circles as one of Europe's most promising early thrash metal bands, Denmark's Artillery faced the challenge of matching the raw power and wild intensity of their demos with their first album proper…