Municipal Waste – The Fatal Feast (2012)

Returning to their old ways after the so-so “Massive Aggressive”, Municipal Waste delivers “The Fatal Feast”. As a huuuuuge improvement over their previous album, this release features 16 solid tracks that cover everything between crossover, thrash, d-beat, and punk. For a span of 40 minutes the band will dominate the listener with a combination of their timeless sound and their ‘balls to the wall’ intensity.

Now signed to Nuclear Blast, Municipal Waste quickly jumps into action with the Punk/Thrash track “Repossession”. On one side of this release you have a hefty dosage of Thrash elements on tracks like “New Dead Masters”, “Crushing Chest Wound”, and “Death Tax”, there are also plenty of Punkier songs like “Unholy Abductor”, “You’re Cut Off” and “12 Step Program”, and completing the release you have the remaining tracks featuring the Municipal Waste Crossover sound that we all love from the band’s latest releases.

We particularly enjoy “The Fatal Feast” in the sense that it is a very diverse release, in terms of all songs being scrambled together allowing the release to flow from Punk-to-Thrash-to-whatever with no patterns. The band’s attitude when it comes to the lyrics is pretty funny and aggressive, making them very entertaining and quite engaging, nothing too deep, just funny and intense. Another thing we quite enjoyed is the usage of b-movie samples like on “Covered in Sick-The Barfer”, reminding us of old-school Mortician.

If you liked Municipal Waste previous releases, you will surely enjoy “The Fatal Feast”. The band shows no signs of slowing down; still delivers very well crafted songs that span over genres and years. If you like bands like D.R.I, Suicidal Tendencies, Nuclear Assault and Toxic Holocaust, you are in for a treat with this high-octane release.

Release: April 10th, 2012

Country: USA