Decimator – Dirty, Hot And Hungry CD 1993 Neat Records NEAT D 1052. Check audio + videos. Thrash Metal from London England, a la Carnivore (1st album), Warfare’s better songs, Anihilated, At War, Virus, Venom, Motörhead, Quick Change, S.D.I., Wolfpack

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Thrash Metal from London, England United Kingdom
Decimator – Dirty, Hot And Hungry
Label: Neat Records – NEAT D 1052
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1993
Style: Thrash
1 Red Eye
2 Dirty, Hot And Hungry   CHECK VIDEO:  https://www.facebook.com/110878293613525/videos/1091033971249311/?paipv=0&eav=AfYp5dXF_6JUX-WKpcHUWytw4WOHP_PkNUsFamVbRtT2HXibfPjbBgE_azSn61-kQkU&_rdr
3 Sixteen Six
4 Flight 19
5 Mutant Lieutenant
6 Carnage City Rocks
7 Stealer Of The Souls (The Renegade)
8 T.R.I.P.
9 Megazine
CD: NEAT D 1052 CD. ℗ & © 1992
Spines: NEAT D 1052
This album is dedicated to the memory of Paul Miller
Barcode: 5 016784 105225 >
Matrix / Runout: ** 6309207 ** NEAT D 1052 **

Unfortunately this came out at the wrong time (in 1993), when brutal death metal, grunge and nu-metal were the new darlings of ‘extreme’ music and all the rage for legions of angst-ridden tits who were trying to find an identity in a rapidly modernizing Western culture.
Decimator had not changed at all though (and thank FUCK for that), and while Dirty, Hot and Hungry has a technically superior production standard, the actual style of their songs has not budged an inch.

The Judge Dredd motif had not abandoned the band at this point, there are still a few tracks which pay tribute, and even a ‘sequel’ to one of the songs from their debut album.
Mad Dog is still up to his old, deep throat vocals, though the band uses a few more gang shouts and a higher pitched, snarling vocal at times. Otherwise, much of what you hear on this is 100% loyal to what they were playing on their debut album.

“Red Eye” has a very Venom party rock feel to the verse, but the riffs are tight, the band maintains its old school metal streak even here. “Dirty, Hot and Hungry” has interesting clean, surf/spy guitars that ride the wave of the thrash rhythms, like Lemmy and the boys scoring a James Bond parody. “Sixteen Six”, which is amusing and funny,  a very entertaining song indeed. “Flight 19” is one of the best pure thrash tracks on the album, concerning the great aviation mystery of 1945. “Mutant Lieutenant” starts with a scratch and the sampling of a rapper, and riffs that sound almost exactly like “No Sleep Til Brooklyn” if it were re-arranged with Mad Dog on the vocals. PURE GENIUS. “Carnage City Rocks” is fairly low balling, straight forward thrash/heavy metal not stylistically dissimilar to Saxon or Judas Priest. How “Stealer of Souls” got a sequel is beyond my comprehension, but here it stands, and surprisingly it is one of the best tracks on this effort, with some nice melodic thrashing in the bridge. “T.R.I.P.” starts out as a swaggering boogie/hard rock song but somehow goes into the thrash territory progressively! PURE GENIUS. The band ends the album with another Dredd reference in “Megazine”, an organ opening the tune and Mad Dog sounding like a mix between himself and a Martin Walkyier (Sabbat, Skyclad).

Two full length albums on the mighty Neat Records and Decimator called it a day. The band simply could not achieve notoriety in an age where brutal death metal, grunge and nu-metal were dominating the market.

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