History & Biography The thrash metal band was founded in 2023 as "an ode to 80s German thrash." The original idea for the act belonged to Nuno Santos. The 2024 demo was released on cassette and was limited to 99 copies. The demo featured a cover version of Wild In The Streets by Circle Jerks. The band returned two years later with an album called Raised In Violence. This one contained two cover versions. These were Rebel Faction's Burnin’ For You and Fear's Hey. All three cover versions were for tracks present on the soundtrack to the 1986 film Thrashin'. No word if the band would cover Devo's That's Good next. In the meantime, the song Raised In Violence's lyrics were inspired by the book Hard-Core: Life Of My Own, which was about Cro-Mags vocalist Harley Flanagan.
Reviews SADISTIK WARFARE - RAISED IN VIOLENCE - SELVAJARIA 
The grade gives it away. This is a good album with impressive thrash metal from start to finish. First, however, let's address the clichés. This is a debut album by a band that includes two cover versions. This has to stop. Cover versions do not make you special. They make you like everybody else. It's like a tattooed footballer.
Every email in my Inbox - and there are probably 100 of them every week - goes on repeatedly about how a band shared a stage with this act or that act (yeah, you played inside a tent at Wacken and 10 hours later Saxon played the main stage 100 metres away) as if it means anything, how the members come from a dozen other bands and, yes, how the album contains a cover version. The question is, who cares? I am here to hear you. Listen to you. Examine your perspective. Enjoy your music. What do you have to say? The world does not need more cover versions (or musicians who are in 10 other bands, "shared the stage" with some group that has never heard of them and has no recollection of them… or tattooed football players for that matter).
The debut album of an underground band introducing the act contains two cover versions. No one needs more covers and neither does Sadistik Warfare. It's been done a million times before. And since I can already hear the protestations, the band is doing it because they "want to," "for ourselves" and "we wanted to pay tribute to…." then, by all means, do it as often as you want in your rehearsal room for yourselves. Have fun. Save yourself the embarrassment of clichés or being like Monstrosity, which gets a mosh pit going as soon as it launches into the set's Slayer song!
The good news is that, on the musical front, these guys were raised in violence and reflect it well. Think about early Sodom or my favourite Kreator album, Terrible Certainty, and you have the war violent speed metal that is Sadistik Warfare. The song Beneath The Ashes gets exceptionally going with a riff reminiscent of Testament's Alone In The Dark, but this band is hardly a copycat or second-tier (although the cover model for the label's Chainsaw Blade release also appears here!). There is plenty of heaviness, speed, aggressive vocals and ripping soloing. The sound production is also just right. The vocals are yelled, but the lyrics are relatively easy to decipher. There is a WWII reference on the song B-29 and Portuguese lyrics on Aldrabões. This reviewer would like to hear more (original) music from this bunch. - Ali "The Metallian"
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