After years laying like dead in the underground, Thrash Metal came back in the early days of the 2000, under new forms and with its natural aggressiveness. Well, with acts as METALLICA, DESTRUCTION, SLAYER, KREATOR and others coming back to the genre, and others coming back from the grave, it’s not a surprise to have a massive attack of new Thrash Metal acts. One of them comes from Ireland, PSYKOSIS, here with its second full-length, “Mind Games”. The production brings the band’s music to a fine mix between sound definition (in a way that’s easy to understand what’s being played) and aggressiveness (due the very good choice for the instrumental tunes that boost that Thrash Metal feeling of the album).

It’s really very good; and the artwork of The Dark Side is disturbing and fits on the band’s music. The quartet shared similarities with acts from the Second Wave of Thrash Metal in the 80s. Acts as TESTAMENT, FORBIDDEN, VIO-LENCE, KREATOR, NUCLEAR ASSAULT, OVERKILL, MEGADETH, TANKARD, EXODUS and others in this way influenced their musical work, but pay attention: the aggressiveness of their musical work depicts a band with personality, able to storm your ears with a massive assault of energy, but using very good melodies (especially on the guitar leads). And it’s really fun and addictive!

These Irish madmen are up to grow, and after listening to moments as “Insanitised”, “Boiling Point”, “Hard Reset”, “Tossed to the Dogs”, “Mutant Mass”, “General Waste”, “Mind Games” and “Hivemind Hysteria” such idea becomes clear, because they’re not trying to be an Old School band, but are opening ways with a massive storm of excellent guitar riffs (and very good solos), solid and technical playing from bass guitar and drums (the insane double bass parts are brutal) and very good screamed vocals. “Mind Games” is a truly very good release, and if you’re into Thrash Metal, you must know PSYKOSIS’ work.