Total Annihilation have released their fourth full-length album, ‘Mountains of Madness’, via Testimony Records. Recorded by Christoph Brandes at Iguana Studios in Freiburg, Germany, and mixed and mastered by Ronnie Björnström in Sweden, the album pushes the band’s Thrashing Death Metal style into faster, heavier, and more technically demanding territory than anything they have delivered before. It is out now on all platforms.
Active since 2006, the Basel, Switzerland-based thrash/death metal force spent nearly two decades evolving from raw thrash purists into one of Europe’s most ferocious underground metal acts. Their 2023 release ‘Raging Death’ established the blueprint, fusing furious thrash with old-school death metal aggression. ‘Mountains of Madness’ takes that foundation and demolishes it, building something harder and more relentless in its place. Fans of Legion of the Damned, old Kreator, and Asphyx will find exactly what they are looking for here.
“More speed, more brutality, more Thrash and more Death,” the band says of the record. “‘Mountains of Madness’ hits the sweet spot between speed and brutality. There will be no mercy.” That is not a boast, it is a mission statement, and the album delivers on it completely. From the opening track to the final breakdown, this is a record built for the mosh pit and engineered to leave nothing standing.