Dying Victims Productions can always be counted on to deliver bands that provide fresh takes on classic styles. And Bavaria’s Zerre is no exception, having begun as a modern hardcore band and morphing into a thrash metal monster-squad since their reformation in 2022. On the band’s latest album, Rotting on a Golden Throne, Zerre delivers all the essentials for thrash metal maniacs: solid and scorching vocals, muscular and powerful riffs, and relentless bass and drumwork. Stylistically, the band references early Metallica and Exodus, and I would add distinct notes of the first three Testament albums and some Nuclear Assault as well.
Thrash metal has been done and overdone again and again over the decades, but there’s a good reason bands keep coming back to it — it’s because records like this one still need to be written.
According to the band:
Rotting on a Golden Throne is the result of us pushing everything a bit further — faster riffs, more aggression, more atmosphere and a darker overall feel. We kind of took the first album as the foundation and made a huge step in finding our own sound, making it more intense, heavy, cohesive and direct. It‘s definitely way more thrash and less punk than the previous record.
Rotting on a Golden Throne comes out via Dying Victims Productions this Friday.
Rotting on a Golden Throne by Zerre
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