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Tech Hell Cyber Thrash, the incinerating debut from Texas and Alaska-based thrash metal trio SCATTER, is out today and can be streamed in its shredding entirety.
Born out of pandemic hacker movie marathons and late nights soldering together guitar pedal clones, SCATTER is the brainchild of Spenser Hodge and a love letter to 90s cyberpunk and hacker culture. Spenser enlisted Texas guitar wizard Ruben Cantu and longtime Alaskan collaborator Justin Rodda to help realize this vision.
The first material born of this collaboration now arrives with SCATTER’s debut EP, Tech Hell Cyber Thrash, a ripping and diverse collection of songs that run the gamut from classic death metal brutality to throwback speed metal harmonized leads, wrapped up in a paranoid, bloodsoaked thrash metal treatise on the interconnected hell world we call Earth. Deploying five incinerating tracks in under nineteen minutes, Tech Hell Cyber Thrash was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios in Oakland, California (Autopsy, Vastum, Necrot) and completed with artwork by Matt Stikker (Metallica, Power Trip, Billy Strings).
Tech Hell Cyber Thrash is out today digitally through SCATTER and on cassette via Immortal Jaw Recordings limited to 50 copies. Unleash hell HERE.
“As the EP’s name suggests, this is thrash metal set in a technical hellscape. Bits of speed metal and death metal are installed into the music as well, punctuating the reckless nature. There are some great guitar harmonies going on during ‘Punching Deck’ and ‘404’ that act as proper throwback energy. Tech Hell Cyber Thrash is a breakneck cybernetic trip.” – Heavy Metal HQ
“It’s probably obvious where the base style of these five tracks comes from on the title alone – but there are also aspects of classic death and speed influences spread throughout to keep the proceedings as heavy as they are melodic enticing. Add in the caustic, blood curdling rhythmic shrieks plus gurgles from the grave and you have the makings of material seesawing between the glory of early NWOBHM-infused thrash, frantic speed metal, and those 90s death days which shook the global underground.” – Dead Rhetoric
“There’s an old-school vibe going on here, but the album doesn’t sound dated one bit. Speedy, thrashy, headbang-inducing. This has to be absolutely killer in a live setting.” – The Metal Crypt
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