Canadian powerhouse Wreck-Defy are back to shatter our eardrums and destroy our brains with their new album Dissecting the Leech. Get ready to get your thrash/power metal on, because your shit is about to get Wreck-Defy(ed).
Hailing from Thunder Bay in Ontario (how very aptly named), Wreck-Defy are pulverising everything and everyone in their wake. Unrestrained, unfiltered and unrelenting, Wreck-Defy are here to let everybody know that they’re here for the long run with their sixth album, Dissecting the Leech. Already in their tenth year, the band has gone from strength to strength, and Wreck-Defy are about to unleash a storm upon us.
Dissecting the Leech is a continuation of the Wreck-Defy raucousness: crushing thrash metal at its best, leaking into the power metal genre and lifting their game to the next level. This isn’t just another album you’ll listen to once and shove into the collection to gather dust and eventually be lost forever like so many others. No, this album will be on repeat and stay on repeat for many weeks at a time—of that I can be sure. I speak from experience.
Grinding guitars, riffage for days. Drubbing drums—the hammering heart of the album—rhythmic basslines and vicious vocals keep you throwing your fists in the air, which in a crowded shopping centre might look a bit weird, but at any of Wreck-Defy’s upcoming shows will fit right in like a denim jacket in the ’80s.
Thrash/power metal is making a massive comeback after the ’90s and ’00s lull. All the elder statesmen of the genre are either retiring or getting very close to the end of their long and tremendous careers, but the genre must live on. It has been carried on the shoulders of a handful of bands for many decades; now the next legion of thrashers are here to carry the torch, and Wreck-Defy will be the ones in the spotlight.
I don’t want to compare Wreck-Defy to any other band. They are the heart of the next generation—the lifeblood that metal needs to pump through its veins, not only to keep it alive but thriving for the next few decades and long after the “Big 4” (or 8 or 20) bands disappear forever, leaving only the memory of their existence and, of course, hundreds of albums between them.
So, jam Dissecting the Leech in your LP stereo, CD or cassette player, or throw your headphones on and mosh to your heart’s content, because Wreck-Defy are just getting started, and they are setting a high bar for any band who strives to be at their level. Look out for them at a city near you soon. You’d be a fool to miss them.
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