F.K.Ü. 4: RISE OF THE MOSH MONGERS Album review

This album is filled with great guitar riffs and solos, the drums blast and beat the crap out of everything while the bass has a deep pulse that backs up the commando style bass kick drumming by slapping you across the face! While vocalist Larry Lethal screams bloody gore, he has a sound of the late Paul Biiloff with a hint of Chuck Billy thrown into the mix. ‘MOSHOCALYPSE NOW’ is an introduction and ‘THE ÜBERSLASHER PT. 1, 2, 3 & 4’ are short interludes (around 20 seconds each), so that leaves the listener with 12 tracks of thrashing speed metal and this is shown with ‘RISE OF THE MOSH MONGERS’ and then they don’t let up…!!!

So what if they have maybe slightly modified a few riffs from other bands (cough cough S.O.D., TESTAMENT) this is still a little gem of an album and I will definitely check out the previous releases from F.K.Ü. This album is full of over the top speed and aggression with some great catchy riffs and I love the horror theme running through the songs (from films and literature). While F.K.Ü. haven’t reinvented thrash or tried anything differently, what they do give the listener is a pure “METAL THRASHING MAD” (name that band and album) album, so if thrash metal is your thing then you could do a lot worse than checking out ‘4: RISE OF THE MOSH MONGERS’.

SCORE – 7.5 out of 10

TRACKS TO CHECK OUT – “Rise of the Mosh Mongers”, “Cannibal Detox”, “At The Mountain of Madness”, “Marz Attacks”