Master of Cruelty - Spit on the Holy Grail (2012)

   If it's about the revival of the old school tendencies of the South American scene, Master of Cruelty had quite effective endeavor by their debut. 
   The way how they mixed thrash, black of death metal, resulted a unified sound that completely blurs the borders between style features. And the lyrical concept is also like the fusion of the three basic genres. This, combined with their exaggerated approach reflects well the overwhelming feeling of an era that have been passed since a while. At one hand "Spit on the Holy Grail" sounds quite nostalgic, and it might be possible to believe that it's a somehow disappeared and long forgotten classic from the early '90s. But it also sounds like a missing link between the old school styles and war metal. The album didn't reach such intensity, since they preferred to return frequently to thrashing and ordinary blackened themes. Still, there are plenty of analogies to find with war metal bands, and from this point the extremely noisy tendencies aren't so far either. In gerenral the album suspects a lot of potencial about the band, and also opened various possibilities how to continue in the future. Also it might be compatible with a wide audience of extreme metal fans.