After an impressive debut album, Demiricous has not wasted any time following the successful “One (Hellbound)”. The band has served up a very pounding and thrashing effort in “Two (Poverty)”. An album that has many political and anger charged tunes following thrash metal tradition. A great mix of Slayer-ism and death metal speed, Demiricous has a simple but effective formula that truly raises hell.

Forget the one-two punch that starts off many albums, these guys give the listener a one-two-three-four punch in the face with their blazing riffs and “rolling-Panzer-division” drumming. “Never Enough Road” starts off with Nate Olp busting out the door with his fast and furious vocals that are backed by the excellent guitar duo of Scott Wilson and Ben Parrish. The song is fast and pulses with thrash aggression and death metal ooze lurking here and there. Some great blast beats by Dustin Boltjes help keep the fast pace. Track two comes in the form of “Expression of Immunity to God” and is a simple statement that the band is not afraid to speed things up even more, the song clocks in at a meager 1:44. The aforementioned speed burst is followed by the grooving and slithery “Knuckle Eye” which displays some great guitar work, with jerking riffs and very fast guitar leads that couldn’t sound more appropriate. The mix of grooves and blasting doesn’t stop here, as it only continues on “Leprosaic Belief” and pretty much flows like that for the rest of the album. It’s pretty hard to ignore the many similarities between Demiricous and Slayer, but you can rest assure they are certainly not copycats in any way.

Demiricous fails to fall into the trap many bands fall in, and that is when the songs are fast they tend to sound too much alike, but this isn’t the case with Demiricous, as their attitude and skill set them just a little ahead of everyone else. Some songs don’t need to be overtly fast to sound heavy and they prove it many times in the album. “Two (Poverty)” is a short affair, the whole album clocks in at 40 minutes, but is definitely worth every second of attention, specially when the band rejuvenates such a rehashed genre like thrash metal.