HEADHUNTER D.C. (D.C. standing for Death Cult) started out in 1986 as TÚMULO before transforming into HEADHUNTER D.C. ‘In Death Metal We Trust’ is the first digital single from the new album “Rise Of The Damned…” and the last track on said album. The sixth full-length album in the band’s 40-year-old career. And in Death Metal HEADHUNTER D.C. trust, the Brazilians led by Sérgio Baloff from the very beginning, with various line-ups during the ages, have been churning out Death Metal from the very proto Death Metal days in the late eighties, until today, where the music has gotten a tad more approach and modern sound. I am a sucker for the band’s early material. The untamed wildness, the South American soul and emotion, the days of experimenting in how far things could be taken, within the context of brutal and slaying Death Metal built on glimpses of Speed Metal, Thrash Metal, Heavy Metal and a “I don’t give a fuck attitude”, and everything else boiled down, to create slaying Death Metal. Every time HEADHUNTER D.C. is releasing new material, I have a little hope for a return to dust, the good old untamed crazy wild days. Though the music is maturing from release to release, the song writing has been getting more thorough, the music more balanced, the production more refined and tamed. That said, newer HEADHUNTER D.C. isn’t bad at all. There are still traces of the roots, there is some of the South American madness left, hidden in a riff here and there, a vocal part gone wild, and small parts of the songs here and there, running into a frenzy. I reckon that the roots of old possess the recording occasionally, so we still get a little glimpse of the untamed beast of the olden days. “Rise Of The Damned…” is a tribute to the Death Metal way of living, a path Sérgio and his co-hordes have been on for quite some years. I found the early material quite defining for what Death Metal became, even though the band didn’t get the deserved recognition back then, and perhaps not even now. This new album is more conform in the form of what Death Metal became during the late ’90s, with a little more modern melodic groove added, into the intense attack we get on “Rise Of The Damned…”. We get a nice shake down of heavy and pummeling Death Metal, great guitar leads and ripping riffs, Danilo Coimbra is a monster. A dark and gripping atmosphere, a buffet of brutality and weighed ambience. In Death Metal We Trust! www.facebook.com/headhunterdc, www.facebook.com/mutilationrecords