Artist: PROTECTOR
Album: REANIMATED HOMUNCULUS VINYL (LP)

Year: 2013
Media type: LP

One thing is crystal clear: Protector from Wolfsburg, Germany, are one of those bands that never really got the attention they deserved. With a sound uncompromising and aggressive like burning sulphur, they should have been ranked among the bigger names in German thrash. Sure, any thrasher worth his salt heard about “Protector of Death”, “Misanthropy”, “Golem” and “Urm the Mad”; but still, Protector never really grew beyond their underground status before they disbanded in 2003.

Now they are back, with original singer Martin Missy doing the vocal duties again. Apart from Martin, the new Protector consist of Mathias Johansson (bass), Carl-Gustav Karlsson (drums) and Michael Carlsson (guitars). These Swedish chaps know exactly what they are doing, having played
together as “Martin Missy and The Protectors” since 2006.

The resurrection of Protector began in 2011 with a demo and a split single, and now the time has come for a new full-length album. On “Reanimated Homunculus“, the band returns to its roots in the early eighties, turning away from the deathier path they used to walk in the nineties. Missy reveals some more details: “It will be a mix of brand new songs, including the first two songs I have ever written for Protector, and some songs that have already been released on the demo and the split between 2011 and 2012, and an old Protector-song from 2000 that we have made our own version of. We've tried to keep it old school, to keep the raw feeling of the songs. We wanted an 80’s thrash metal sound, and I hope we have succeeded with that.”

Have they? You be the judge!

SIDE TRASH:

01 Sons of Kain
02 Deranged Nymphomania
03 Holiday in Hell
04 Reanimated Homunculus
05 Birth of a Nation

SIDE METAL :

06 Lycopolis
07 Road Rage
08 Antiman
09 The End
10 Calle Brutal