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LEPROSY (Swe) - Trapped In Rage - MC

Review from Infernal Demon (Tha) ExtraKill Issue Vol #1 2005:
Again with SwedishThrasher, 'Leprosy' and here are their assault 'Trapped In Rage' on this stuffs incl. only 3 aggressionslaught songs in the vein of US Thrash Metal, of course don't expected to hear sound like The Haunted!!! Of course all their sound intensly old Bay Area Thrasher + some European Thrash!!!! And have a cool production B & W glossy covers with a cool sound recording!!!! All this have out by 'Final Punishment Recs.' In 2005. All maniac don't miss this!!!

Review from Nihilistic Holocaust:
Stop blaspheming the power of beer metal with your milky ways and sterilized hot "beers"!! Something nice in the current old school thrash underground revival is: every bands didn't choose to play the same style, while a bunch of thrashers totally embrace the early German way of shredding the strings (Kreator, Destruction, Sodom...), LEPROSY chose something more varied, both in terms of influences and variety of rhythms. These Swedish thrashers have a bunch of riffs reminding of the early Bay area scene (early Metallica), with few technical touches ŕ la old MEGADETH and nice accelerations reminding of KREATOR, while some riffs could sound like POSSESSED (2nd album and last Mlp) eventhough the atmosphere isn't evil nor obscure...Few touches reminded me of D.B.C or CYCLONE TEMPLE. It might lack of brutal aggression, but this isn't a really frenetic kind of thrash... The tracks are well rounded with a bunch of breaks, the musicians are all tight. There's nothing new, or worth the timeless kill, but this demo is well done enough and a nice mood is here. A nice piece of old school thrash a not too common way, with nothing to disturb the big fans of 80's thrash mania. A shame the packaging/ layout is too simple and cheap looking... but the demo was just released as a tape by FINAL PUNISHMENT Recs, and it looks better. Cool.

Review from Thrash Attack (Ger) #4:
Fucking first demo tape by this Swedish young thrashers! Now they're no longer called Leprosy, but Caustic Strike and have released another demo. Their direction is pretty American, fast guitars and a great singer. It's Olof Wikstrand, who could become the face (or and better voice) of Swedish (thrash) metal! He plays also in Corrupt, Caustic Strike, Enforcer and Oppression which are all more or less thrash. I really like his high pitched traditional metal voice. The tape contains 3 tunes: "Trapped in Rage", "Dead while Living" and "You are next". Something I really like, which is pretty rare, is when the lyrics are included in a tape release. Actually all three songs are good, so get it from the label together with the second one. Swedish thrash rules if it's not done by fuckheads like The Haunted!!!



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