Necrohammer are a band from Mexico that plays an old school mixture of black, thrash and speed metal and this is a review of their 2025 compilation album "Unholy Black Steel" which was released by WolfKult Religion which consists of their 2022 and 2024 demo's "Unholy Black Steel" and "Ancient Metal Holocaust".
A very dark sounding intro starts off the compilation before going into a heavier direction which also mixes thrash and speed metal together. Most of the music is very heavily rooted in the 80's and 90's era along with the vocals mixing both the first and second wave era's of black metal together with a bestial touch.
When guitar solos and leads are utilized they also remain true to an old school style while blast beats are also added into the faster sections of the songs. When tremolo picking is utilized they also five the music more of a raw feeling along with some dark sounding melodies also being utilized at times.
Throughout the compilation you can also hear a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts along with all of the music sounding like it could of easily bene recorded and released more then 30 years ago, some of the tracks are also instrumentals as well as the second demo also adding in more of a raw and fast style as well as one song also adding in a brief use of clean playing and they also bring in a Von cover. The production sounds very raw and old school while t he lyrics cover Satanism, Occultism, Blasphemy and Metal themes.
In my opinion Necrohammer are a very great sounding old school mixture of black, thrash and speed metal and if you are fan of those musical genres, you should check out this band. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Satanic Force" "Hammer Of Black Destruction" "Tormentor" and "Satanic Blood". 8 out of 10.
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