It may be bordering on self-parody, but there's a lot to love about bands who wear their Death Toll 80k – that's pure '80s nuclear terror for a start – manage to tick so many boxes on the two pieces of art for their new full-length 'Harsh Realities' – another solid crust title – that you'll have decided they're your new favourite band before even hearing a note. The vinyl version has a black and white photo of a soldier and an emaciated child, and the CD version – both are available of FDA Rekotz and downloadable for free – has a picture of a baby sitting and crying in the rubble of some post-bombardment urban ruin.Forming in 2005 in Lappeenranta, Finland, by 2008 this youthful, fresh-faced four-piece had already toured Germany, Sweden, the Czech Republic and played the mighty Obscene Extreme (they're returning this year), following this up with a European tour with Turkish blastmasters Sakatat, and a Finnish tour with the much hyped Bloody Phoenix. Death Toll 80k have proved themselves every bit the relentless brutalists their name, and sound - all Agathocles, early Napalm Death, Fear of God, Insect Warfare, Lycanthropy, etc etc - suggests.
If they were American, they'd be on 625 Thrash, and that's as high as praise possibly gets.
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