Teutonic Thrash veterans Protector's new album completes what one can only describe as a classical hat-trick. After a glorious return to original form on "Reanimated Homunculus" with a wholly new line-up and its successor "Cursed and Coronated", Martin Missy and company again hit the proverbial bull's eye with "Summon the Hordes", an epitome of consolidation and rejuvenation at once.
There he said it, yet while "Summon the Hordes" harks back to that groundbreaking decade as one could have expected, Protector would not be themselves if they had not build in certain twists and updated their working procedures. Most prominently, as opposed to its predecessors with their Swedeath-infused ambience courtesy of Tomas Skogsberg and legendary Sunlight Studios, the new material boasts the production values of no other than the iconic Harris Johns, who has long since gone into the annals of metal for shaping not just the German scene's sound aesthetic, as shown on a whole host of seminal genre releases.

450 x neon yellow vinyl, 425gsm heavy 4mm spine cardboard cover, insert, A5 promo card, poster.

Tracklist
A1 Stillwell avenue
A2 Steel Caravan
A3 Realm Of Crime
A4 The Celtic Hammer
A5 Two Ton Behemoth

B1 Summon The Hordes
B2 Three Legions
B3 Meaningless Eradication
B4 Unity, Anthems And Pandemonium
B5 Glove Of Love