"Best kept secret" or "underrated" are terms too easy to toss around when it comes to Chile's legendary thrash legion Apostasy. All of those remain understatements that don't even begin to describe the true power and brilliance of one of South America's greatest ever underground metal bands, and conversely, the unacceptable and unexplainable lack of broader recognition they've struggled with over the decades. Apostasy emerged in the late 80s from Chile's metal underworld with a dark and evil trash assault which was perhaps even too ahead of its time and uncompromising for the time and place in which it emerged. Reminiscent of darker practitioners like (early) Sepultura, Slayer, Sodom, Destruction, Kreator etc, Apostasy have always treaded the outlines of the extreme, carving out a recognizable identity for themselves by always keeping a foot in the occult and esoteric shadow of black and death metal while staying true to thrash metal's militarized and belligerent ways as we've come to know it through its western most popular acts. This is their 2018 album, their second since the band's inception. Pure deathrash!