The band from Brazil was way ahead of the times to release something this brutal in 1987. Their singer Wagner Lamounier went on to be the original singer of Sepultura. The vocals are closer to death metal. The first two songs assault you with blast beats and things do not get darker and more deliberate until the almost doomy riff of "Nightmare" It does eventually reach blasting speed again. The influence of early Slayer is all over this one. Where these guys set themselves apart is on some of the colder sounding chord progressions that what we now think of as black metal as borrowed from in large doses.
It is a more interesting sound than the more straight ahead blasty mc nasty that they throw down on "Christs Death". The most impressive part was the attempt to hit a Tom Ayra like falsetto scream in the middle of the song before it slows into a dirge. The tracking of the vocals is interesting when they are at their most demonic and makes me think of Deicide. "Satannas" is more about speed than not. There is more dynamics to "Ready to Fuck" which is far from sensual in any way. Even as an invocation of lust it is fairly limited in capturing the mood.
By the time we get to "Deaththrash" it is blowing by and fading into the background as up to this point the songs have begun to sound a little bit the same. Played back-to-back against "the Last Slaughter" you can barely tell the difference. The rawer production to "Black Vomit" is the only thing that really makes that one stands out. Sure, it might have been ahead of its time and they do thrash up some impressive riffs and summon demonic enough vocals I will give this one an 8.5, because heaviness and viciousness takes precedence over songwriting sometimes.
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