A bit of introduction is needed. Insaniter are an underground thrash metal band from Crete, Greece. I really did not know what to expect when I got the promo to review, and I really don't know what to think now. Riffs are old school thrash, drums are old school thrash, vocals are truly old school thrash. Does it work together? Not quite.

The first track of the EP, "Ancient Believed" starts out with a bombastic old school thrash intro. Drums sound either triggered or MIDI, guitars are re-amped. Mix-wise the drums are way too high. The vocals here are old school thrash all the way, remind me a lot of old Anthrax, and bands now demised. The song breaks in the middle into a clean break, very melodic, pretty cool, but here too, the drums ruin the whole vibe, too strong in the mix. Overall, not too original(not necesarrily a bad thing), old school thrash track.

Second track "Core Inside Chaos" continues the same line. Old school thrash to the bone. My biggest problem beside the sound in the whole EP is that the vocals albeit generally clean, are not audible at all. As much as I've tried I couldn't understand more than a word here and there. Near the end of the track the band breaks into a hard-rock'ish riff, nice addition, really unexpected. Good stuff, the highlight of the song.

Third track, "Face Back", continues, as said the old school thrash assault. Same problems as before, but this time, come also rhythm problems, at time it seems that the drums and the guitar play on different BPM. At this point already, the ears start to tire of the relentless assault of this underground outfit, and my sincere hope is that there will be a break at least, if not a ballad somewhere on the album.

The next track "Collapse The Orizon" is also not the ballad I was looking for, but the same line of old school anger, fun at times, and at times the production-related problems said earlier are just too much to bear. What I really think could help this album is some lead guitar work, which is pretty much absent up until now. Right in the middle of the song, it breaks into mostly bass and drums, and it just doesn't work. It doesn't sound tight, the drums play about 2.5 times faster than the bass, and again it just doesn't add up, the potential was there, the piece didn't quite live up to it.

"End Of Insanity" starts with a clean guitar intro, and some actual lead guitar work, the best intro of the EP. It turns into a fast riff really quick though, but the riff itself is actually quite cool, the whole song flows better than the rest. Vocals still inaudible, but the guitars and the drums finally work together, the definite highlight of the album. There is also a solo finally! A Slayer type solo, real quick scales, but it works, as said, the highlight of the album.

The closing track of the EP, "Alley Of Fear" starts with a cool bass solo, that ends quite abruptly, and continues into a good sounding thrash riff, then another, and then the vocals enter. Again the audibility problem. The only thing that I could understand, and it as well half guessing, is the chorus chant of "Alley of fear". Another break, this time as if taken from earlier Metallica albums comes in the middle of the song, nothing new here, but the sound that it seems that they've mastered till the end of the album. Sound wise all instruments actually work together, but the vocals, which frequently go into clipping and distortion. The ending of the song is really abrupt, and leaves you surprised, not quite in the good way.

To sum things up, an old school thrash release, which is not something you hear every day these days, but not too well made. Re-Amped guitars, drums that sound that they are either triggered or MIDI, vocals that you cannot understand, too few solos(about 2 in the whole release), but on the upside, they actually do sound quite fun at times<