Two deadly hitting introductions can be used for this review: which musical route of march one can expect from a band that covers Kill On Command of the Bay Area Thrash legend Vio-lence on their first official release, an EP? And: the old school Thrash has reached the Emerald Isle! Both introductions complement one another at best.
If one sends Creation’s Undoing back in time to bring it before Thrash metalheads as background music for training the neck muscles, these guys won’t be astonished about the riffs and song structures. Bodies For The Slaughter, Manipulation Evolution and Global Assassin perfectly fits to the Kill On Command’s atmosphere. Only the sound would be eyed critical while lifting an eyebrow and thinking: “doesn’t sound like the usual 80’s stuff!?”. Whatever, keep thrashin’ on and toughen the cervical spine. I don’t know if there are any more bands like MASS EXTINCTION in Ireland. It seems that lots didn’t found their way overseas until now. But if there are such as those wrecking balls out there, then they have to crawl out of the pubs to hit us with stuff like this straight in our face. Or is the rest of the world responsible that the old school Thrash was brought too late to the green Island? This is to negate, because in the history of MASS EXTINCTION, the five guys rock together since 2003, they opened for Exodus already and when Irish Festivals have to be loaded with bands MASS EXTINCTION is always to find on top of the billing. But also in a package existing of Testament, Slayer and Vio-lence Creation’s Undoing’s tracks would feel homelike – a part of each of the bands is included. In this respect it’s almost a pity that MASS EXTINCTION come to light only now, who knows which path the band walked earlier in time!?