Assaulter是来自澳大利亚的一只年轻的Black\u002FThrash Metal队伍，（区别于法国的同名乐队）最初组建于2004，随后在05年和08年都有demo和EP发行，这是08年底正式发行的第一张专辑，封面倒像是一支前卫金属乐队风格，但打开播放器后，粗暴的吉他riff会让你很难与封面联系起来，快速的节奏恶毒的嗓音成为乐队的标志，Assaulter于09年推出Sadistic Messiah \u002F Beware the Wounded Beast Split拼盘，技术和实力必将使乐队成为澳洲金属的新秀！by Alex HendersonThe term blackened death metal has been applied to numerous bands, but one term that hasn't been used nearly as much (at least as of early 2009) is blackened thrash metal. However, that term has been used to describe Assaulter's debut album, Salvation Like Destruction, and it is an accurate description of what the Australian trio does on this 2008 recording. Salvation Like Destruction is, in fact, a thrash metal disc with a strong black metal influence -- certainly when it comes to the lead vocals of S. Berserker, whose rasp gives this 39-minute CD its black metal appeal. However, other things closely identified with black metal (such as blastbeats and ultra-ominous harmonies) are not part of the picture on Salvation Like Destruction; replace Berserker's rasp vocals with clean vocals, and this would have been a straight-ahead, '80s-style thrash album rather than a blackened thrash album. And even with Berserker's black metal-minded vocals, forceful tracks like Awe of Fire, The Axiom Star, and Vengeance Whips are still very '80s-sounding -- which makes sense when one considers that black metal, like death metal, came out of thrash and owes a strong artistic debt to punk. Assaulter's approach is basically thrash metal with an awareness of early black metal, and it's important to remember that the early black metal bands identified with punk's garage-like rawness and lack of slickness (although the symphonic black metal bands that came along later brought more polish to the table). Salvation Like Destruction is mildly inconsistent, but overall, it is a likable reminder of the common ground shared by thrash metal and black metal.