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Speed-freaks keep their influences on their scuffed-up sleeves

These Mad Max-fixated

Italian metal-punks remain in no mood for nuance or compromise on their third studio LP. Throughout the album, as throughout their 12-year career, cheerfully blatant influences are churned up and splattered around like mud from the wheels of a haywire dirt bike. If you jot them all down, you’ll have written the lyrics of final song, Wasteland Cratediggers, an irresistible singalong about post-apocalypse record store looting. ‘Motörhead! Discharge! Venom!’ chants vocalist Deathlörd Astwülf, as if trying to help us determine who to put in the For Fans Of section – wearing derivativeness as a badge of pride but guaranteeing 34 minutes of belligerent cartoonish fun. ■■■■■■■■■■

FOR FANS OF: Motörhead! Discharge! Venom!

CHRIS CHANTLER