Antagonizör – Edgelords from Hell
Release Date: 9th May 2025 (Cassette & Digital)
Label: Morbid and Miserable Records
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Genre: Metalpunk, Speed Metal, Heavy Metal.
FFO: Exciter, Whitespade, Whipstriker, Motorhead,.
Review By: Mark Waight
Hailing from Gainesville, Florida, metalpunk trio Antagonizör are just about to release their fiery debut album “Edgelords from Hell” on an unsuspecting world. With a couple of filth fuelled EP’s already to their name and with Antagonizör fondly addressing their hometown as a southern cesspool, I’m now very eager to find out what fun and profanity spews forth from such a corrupt and dirty place, so let’s go and see for ourselves.
Antagonizör is Sarah (vocals & guitar), Tzu Wei (bass) and Mykel (drum slave).
“In the Still of the Night” something is most definitely stirring in this thrilling pumped-up attention-grabbing frontal assault on your ears. Waking you up like a heavy metal necromancer, this opening track could possibly animate the dead with its heart thumping delivery. I don’t know about “Obsessed by Evil”, but two track in, I am already obsessed by this speaker destroying album that simply cries out to be played on a big old stereo system that’s been cranked up to maximum volume!
“Midnight Racer” is a cracking old school metal tune with a traditional hard rock flavour to it that will more than get your motor running as you head out on the highway. Next up, “Into the Fire” turns up the heat once more in this high-octane encounter that will burn you up and leave you gasping for oxygen as your air guitar goes into finger numbing overdrive!
I don’t know if it’s a band motto or a statement of intent, but “Smoke Grass Eat Ass” is a fun tongue in cheek (or tongue in somewhere) song that has a great sing-along party feel to it that is sure to go down well at gigs as the audience won’t be able to resist joining in with the chorus. With plenty of punk attitude “Hands Off” punches viciously hard with the power cords and riffs flowing in endless waves of pure joy, you simply won’t be able to resist shaking your bloody head off, and why wouldn’t you?
Straight out of the Tony Iommi handbook of ultra cool riffs, “Invocation” echoes Black Sabbath’s “Symptoms of the Universe” as we are teed up nicely to face the “Antichrist”, an absolute screamer of a track that will have you firmly nailed to the spot in awe of its pulsating presence!
By now we are all completely under the “Speed Demons Spell,” subservient to this awesome display of metalpunk prowess you will be down on your knees at the black altar of hell and begging for more, more, more. Homage to adrenaline fuelled pastimes, “Thrill Junkie” winds open the throttle in a good old hard rock fashion with some cool keys giving it a raucous retro feel. Love it!
Anti-police track “Blue Lives Don’t Exist” is an authentic 77 style anarchy and punk protest song which firmly plants a hefty boot right between the legs of the law enforcement establishment! Not even pausing for a moment “Ready for the Rapture” then further tightens its grip around the throat of society with a stark warning of the upcoming rebellion, bring it on! Title track “Edgelords from Hell” takes the final bow and plays us out with a rock n roll sound reminiscent of the late great legend Lemmy Kilminster. What a finish!
“Edgelords from Hell” is like a copy book look into the great music of my youth and for that point alone it gets a massive thumbs up from me, but I can assure you now that there is much more than that to love in this banging album from Antagonizör. Packed with endless passion and boundless energy, “Edgelords from Hell” is short, sweet and such great, great fun too, it just about ticked every single box for me as well as putting a huge grin on my mush. If you like Punk or Metal delivered in rocket propelled bite size chunks of music, then you are going to absolutely love Antagonizör and those “Edgelords from Hell.”
Very highly recommended.
(4.5 / 5)
