THRUST – Harvest Of Souls

Metal fans have seen the crypts open up and witnessed bands long thought dead shambling from their sepulchral tombs. Retro Metal is popular; the genre has seen the reformation of classic line-ups of essential bands as well as infusions of new musicians around a core nucleus of veteran players and a recognizable name. One of the most interesting resurrection phenomena is the reappearance of a band that barely even appeared in the first place…sift through the reviews of the past year and see how many bands you can find that released one or two albums in the eighties—thirty plus years ago—that reignited with new material in the late 2010’s. Count Thrust among that latter category; there’s a thirty-one year gap between 1984’s Fist Held High and 2015’s Reincarnation, with only a couple demos and a band-approved 2002 bootleg in between, making this years’ Harvest Of Souls seem like a massive upgrade in productivity.

The song titles and music place the album squarely within the American Metal scene of the early to mid-eighties, meaning it paradoxically sounds both dated and timeless. Recognizable, chanted choruses, thunderous drumming and muscular, chugging riffs abound. Half a dozen of the tunes, especially “Feel The Pain” and “Sorceress”, would not be out of place on an eighties Metal Blade comps (Thrust had a song on the fourth one). If you stupidly threw out all of your Good Old Stuff during the fifteen minutes Nu-Metal was a thing, Thrust isn’t for you, but if every so often you reach back into the archives for something with steel and iron at the core, Harvest of Souls can provide a fresh fix. Some metals don’t rust.

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