Two years after their intensive album “Slave Driver”, the Dutch Thrashers DEAD HEAD are back with an EP. They are one of the longest-existing Thrash bands of the Netherlands and always positioned their sound on the border to Death Metal. So they basically collect the best of both genres to forge their very own tracks from them. The “Shadow Soul” EP again lets the listener clearly know, the band around singer Ralph De Boer, who also growls in BODYFARM, makes no secret of the fact that they are, first and foremost, one thing: Metalheads. Songs like ‘Litany Of The Weak’ or ‘Opulent Disruption’ sound pleasantly like early KREATOR, old SEPULTURA, a bit of POSSESSED and often also like the good old “Reign In Blood” days of SLAYER, especially when drummer Hans Spijker beats up his kit at top speed. But the record doesn’t only run at top speed, the band also loves to build groovy middle parts with heavy riffs into their songs and to put in melodic guitar solos here and there – or to sound slow and somehow strange, like in ‘Caverns Of Fate’ or to sound slow and somehow dangerous like in ‘The Run’. As I said, the four Dutchmen do not reinvent the wheel, they throw a handful of pleasantly listenable thrashing tracks into the audience. So if you can relate to all the mentioned bands and want a few nice pieces of Thrash to escalate in front of the stereo system at home… More info at: www.facebook.com/deadheadthrash, www.facebook.com/hammerheartrecords