Review of All Hell - "The Red Sect"

MASS POSSESSION IS THE AIM WHILST PLAYING THE DEVIL'S GAME

By: Geoff Teach

Normally, I do not write articles about albums that are more than three months released, but in the case of Asheville, North Carolina’s black thrash three-piece, All Hell, I am making a necessary exception. Shortly before Samhain last year, the trio released their second full-length album, The Red Sect (Horror Pain Gore Death), and after witnessing their live set, meeting their members, picking up a copy of The Red Sect, and listening to it nonstop for two days, I felt compelled – possessed, even – to write this piece posthaste.

Ravaging thrash metal with devilish overtones is not a new idea, no, but I’ll be damned if All Hell isn’t some of the best I’ve ever heard in all my years on this doomed planet. Mixed and mastered by the one-and-only Joel Grind, The Red Sect is ten vicious tracks of varying lengths that are simple, direct, and absolutely crushing. Insidious from the first notes of the opener “Crossroads” to the final moments of the closer (and title-track) “The Red Sect”, All Hell deliver an album that shreds hard enough to conjure the dead.

Punishing throughout, All Hell’s The Red Sect is an intoxicating tour de force that Satan himself should be proud of. My top picks of the ten cuts include the aforementioned “Crossroads”, “Venomous”, “In My Command” (my personal favorite), “Blackshape”, “Funeral Feast”, and “The Red Sect”. You can procure a copy of this demonically delectable offering from All Hell by following the links listed below – and if anyone asks you why you bought it, just tell them The Devil made you do it.

Listen to “In My Command” from The Red Sect by pressing play below: