The mindchild of Brazilian do it yourself musician and dark arts worshipper Glauber Ataide, SULFURIC STORM  evokes the old school punk/death metal of old, with a firm fist pumped in the air, a nihilistic sneer of righteous anarchy stretched across a corpse paint covered face. "Hell on Earth" is a dozen minutes of straight-up, no nonsense death metal. There's not much to find out there about Ataide or his death metal project, other than a Soundcloud profile that showcases some odd covers of the USSR National Anthem, and that's only assuming that that's the same Glauber Ataide.  So in that spirit- and in the spirit of the concise nature of the EP, I'll do the same with this review (sans the reinterpretation of the Soviet swan song).

Far be it from me to judge the artistic integrity of a song that's called "Burn All Racists" and those lines as the main vomited lyrical motif of the song.  It's a straight-up old school slab of death metal, and coming from a Brazilian, seems apt for a country that has seen it's own struggles with favoritism based on how one looks and where one was born. For what it does, it's an effective three minutes of punkened death metal, and the strongest track on the record. On "Hell on Earth," Ataide continues with the acidic, low-tone growls that spit over the simple groove.  The rhythm slows down over the never-ending blast beats, and the vocals meet the bass and drums on the beat for a percussive and propulsive experience. That being said, it's almost too propulsive. By the time the breakdown comes- which is clearly advertised- it can be a little fatigue-inspiring. "Into the Abyss" features a nasty little dissonant riff, before propelling itself into a hard-hitting punk song of death-inspired origin.  The bass seems to rattle in the background, and you can almost see the loose slap of the strings across the body of the guitar. "Divine Putrefacation" may be putrefying, but there's nothing particularly divine about the song.  At times it sounds like some nu-metal version of a DARKTHRONE song. Take that as you will.

In the end, while it's good to think there's a solitary voice down there southeast of the Amazon pleading for equality, SULFURIC STORM really doesn't do much to separate itself from the pack. That, of course, probably isn't Glauber Ataide's goal in the first place. In many ways, these traditional death metal bands are preaching to the darkened choir, and could care less what the rest of us fucking noobs feel about what they are doing.  If you are into this kind of thing, than giving "Hell on Earth" couldn't hurt.  But, really, you might just want to blow the dust off those DARKTHRONE records to see how things used to done.  And in the meantime?  Still don't be a fucking racist.  At least SULFURIC STORM got that much right.