On “As the Cities Burn”, Desolation Remains have taken a decent-sized slab of Thrash and mixed with some brutality and killer riffs. The tracks here have [...]]]> Desolation Remains hail from the North West of England and describe themselves as a band with “a brutal no nonsense sound designed to pummel the audience into submission”.

On “As the Cities Burn”, Desolation Remains have taken a decent-sized slab of Thrash and mixed with some brutality and killer riffs. The tracks here have left me no doubt that the band are completely capable of pummeling the audience into submission… and then some!

This collection kicks off with “As the Cities Burn”, a great little introduction track that leads into “Firefight” – a track which, when played at a loud volume, could have been designed to make your ears bleed. “Brutality” does exactly what it says on the tin and makes me want to throw myself (or other people) around the room. I love the sheer heaviness of this track, especially at around the 2 minute mark – fuckin’ superb! You’ve got to listen to this one LOUD! It’s not background music by any stretch of the imagination!
For some reason “Eyes Stitched Shut” took me a couple of listens to get into… but, once I did get into it, I realised it’s the perfect track to bang your head to. “Psykosis” is my current favourite from Desolation Remains. It’s got everything you could possibly want, all thrown together in a handy little package. A package that likely contains a strange Gremlin-like creature that’s just waiting for you to open said package so that it can rip your face off. Which is nice… and exactly what we’re looking for here.
If “Psykosis” is my favourite, then “Silence” is a very close second. It’s a fantastic way to finish things off and the tempo changes really help to keep things interesting.

If you haven’t had a chance to listen to Desolation Remains yet, then I strongly suggest that you remedy that straight away. To help you out, I’ve provided a link below

reverbnation.com/desolationremains

Desolation Remains are a metal group from the North West of England with a brutal no nonsense sound designed to pummel the audience into submission. With both traditional metal, thrash and death metal influences the band create heavy music with both melody and structure. The band work extremely hard to get a tight sound [...]]]>

Desolation Remains are a metal group from the North West of England with a brutal no nonsense sound designed to pummel the audience into submission. With both traditional metal, thrash and death metal influences the band create heavy music with both melody and structure. The band work extremely hard to get a tight sound during live performances and do their very best to make sure a good percentage of the crowd leave with a few bruises. With one self produced self titled album already available and a live DVD due to be released this winter, this is a band with more creativity and drive than any other on the scene. With regular gigs all over the North West this is a band you cannot miss.

As The Cities Burn blog update..
finally done, got two mp3`s for you on here, the cd contains 6 songs altogether, artwork will be getting finalised over the next few days, we are going to be backing this release up with several quality gigs over the next few months see you in the pit !!!!!! \m/

Check out the track’s on the band’s Reverbation page.

Desolation Remains will also be supporting Napalm Death at the Liverpool Barfly on 16th April!