Slathered in blackened, thrashy, heavy metal filth, reeking of sweaty speed, and pummelling with metalpunk fury, Romania's very own blackened speed band LEATHER BRIGADE present the downright dirty and delectable debut, "Pray to the Knife", for your hedonistic appreciation. Released via Vicious Witch Records - one of the UK's best underground labels for speed and black thrash - this stunning EP will dazzle you into submission with its unapologetically in-your-face brand of blackened thrash. If you love chowing down on the sort of bass Lemmy Kilmister would have approved, and if you appreciate the darkened prowess of HELLRIPPER and sleaze 'n' speed of MIDNIGHT, you'll dig LEATHER BRIGADE.

These punky metalheads have been tearing up Bucharest since 2020 with a MOTÖRHEAD influenced backbone to an all-out assault of earworm riff-laden mastery. The strapping punk attitude is solid and consistent throughout "Pray to the Knife", where "Alcoholic Night" grips your balls in a vice with its ferocious D-beat and gang chants, the title-track squeezes them harder - with a smile on its face - until your plums are swollen and purple with its caustic blend of speed, punk and NWOBHM tones blitzed in for good measure.

"Pray to the Knife" may be short, but it certainly isn't sweet. Check out the lascivious tones of "Mistress of Hell", dripping in catchy riffs and a tsunami of hellish vocals dedicated to a deliciously evil temptress, and the filthy 'oüghs' of "I Am the Night" cement the certitude of LEATHER BRIGADE's impassioned metallic muck, slapping down that incredible D-beat to wham everything into your face. But it's the seedy and speedy ooze of "Sex with Satan" that piles LEATHER BRIGADE's signature sound into a throbbing anthem of carnal lust and devilish sleaze. It's a fact: "Pray to the Knife" will mate with your ears until they bleed from all the speedy, smutty, sexy sex, so you best use protection if you don't want LEATHER BRIGADE to spawn you up.

Dirty, fast, and bloody filthy, this is lubricious metalpunk at its finest and one of my favourite underground releases of this year. LEATHER BRIGADE stays true to the heavy metal spirit of "Pray to the Knife" and achieves something fresh yet nostalgic. Leather clad and hellbound, strap on your bullet belts, buckle up and ride the apocalypse of the sexy metalpunk fury of LEATHER BRIGADE, and let the stench of its evil embrocation penetrate your sordid metal soul! This is trve FILTH!