Danish thrash metallers The Kandidate are the boys from hardcore band The Downward Candidate who have teamed up with vocalist Jakob Bredahl and now debut with ‘Until We Are Outnumbered’. Since his departure from HateSphere the always busy bee Bredahl has among many things played guitar in the hardcore band Last Mile, and while nothing is wrong with his guitar playing it’s great to have him behind the microphone again. Boy, that guy can scream his head off!

If you want to know what the quartet is all about, ‘Shut ‘em Up’ in the player below pretty much sums them up: It’s perfect for headbanging, jumping aimlessly up and down, shouting along and acting like a drugged up monkey in general. However, the entire album is not all 666 Mph thrash metal. They sneak in a bit of punk as well, like the highly recommendable ‘Live and Lie’ that sounds like Social Distortion if they were 20 years younger and 200 percent more angry!

The Kandidate don’t try to reinvent thrash metal or reach epic levels in their lyrics on ‘Until We Are Outnumbered’. They’re all about kicking ass and chewing bubblegum. And the bubblegum is optional.

Genre: Thrash/death metal
Who: The Kandidate
Album: Until We Are Outnumbered
Label: Napalm Records/Target Distribution
Year: 2010
Country: Denmark
Language: English
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Recommended tracks:
Shut ‘em Up – Distress and Decay – Live and Lie