(Those Once Loyal)
Forget the fact that the riff from my all time favorite Bolts song has popped up at the beginning of this song. It has nothing to do with the monolithic momentum that comes afterward. The Killchain is perhaps THE most hookladen-catchy song Bolt Thrower has ever written. But the ugly beauty in this track is its sheer heaviness tainted with a glorious amount of fun, I just get lost in the wonderment of it all. If Baz writes an album worth of songs like this for the 9th dispatch from BT HQ, I sure won't mind. In fact, I'd love it.
If one musical element could be added to some of the songs on TOL (particularly those I've chosen) it's that the band to fully honour their punk-rock roots, this clicks perfectly with the whole upwards and onwards thing they've got going.
Adore the bouncy main riff and the production that heralds it's face removing stomp. It's a true blue classic that is already up there amongst my all time favorite Bolts songs. I feel happy, motivated and ready to kick all kinds of ass when this song is on a loop. If the band are reading this, please write more songs in this vein. It takes the things we all love about the Bolts and mutates 'em into something else all together.
One other thing that makes this song such a gem is Karl's elaborate musings on digital warfare. Who knew a.i. controlled weapons could be the focus of a kicking death metal anthem.
Yeah I said it, anthem.
Bombastically brilliant.
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