Losing three-fifths of their membership, including outspoken frontman Peter Dolving, surely spelt curtains for these Swedish metallers? Not quite.
Instead, the remaining members recruited motivated former personnel and new blood. Returning growler Marco Aro’s vitality is the ideal foil for riff-heavy channelling of their early melodic death meets Slayer-esque thrash, the blistering yet infectious outcome ideal for those who objected to more experimental recent ventures. Testament’s Chuck Billy also helps tear pretenders a new one during Trend Killer. As The Haunted plan to only tour sporadically, hopefully Exit Wounds’ chunky grooves aren’t lost in the shuffle amid At The Gates’ upcoming LP.
