15/09/2025
Band: Condition Critical
Location: New Jersey, United States
Genre: Thrash Metal
Album: Degeneration Chambear
Themes: Violence, Gore, Medical malpractice
Release date: September 5th, 2025
Mixing and Mastering: Mike Low
Engineering Guitars & Bass: Tony Barhoum
Engineering Drums: James Suprenant & Big Goon Studios
Engineering Vocals: Apollo
Artwork: Andrei Bouzikov
CD Layout design: Tom Martin.
Degeneration Chamber is the third full-length album by the band Condition Critical from New Jersey, United States, which proposes a violent, fast, murderous Modern Thrash Metal so capable of shaking every neuron in your brain, a band that has forged a style of music so rooted in the bones, with a way of composing in ultra quality to be able to denote each of the instruments that emit that exquisite noise in their creations.
Music made for those lovers of that fierce Thrash that shows its claws in each unusual guitar riffs and solos so capable of giving you that boom of favorite tones to leave you stunned, as well as in each blow of the bass that bounces off each fragment of noise generated by this instrument that naturally carries those more aggressive atmospheres and a full drum kit that arms the gear of this devastating machine and that gives that accelerated rhythmic push but at the same time provides changes of rhythms in the compositional compass to generate more violence in each beat; it is a feeling of multiple clashes of accelerated, violent, brutal and well-executed rhythms that give you that necessary adrenaline suddenly and in the pure forceful style that this band has known how to carry out for 15 years in its career in extreme music. The music that the guys from Condition Critical compose is for those fans whose colors are reflected in a banner that waves the name of Thrash Metal high, since with this new material, they bring us a palpitable form of atmospheres charged with pure adrenaline combined with that desire to move your fu***ng head in circles to crash into an endless number of completely accelerated rhythms that detonate in your ears and that grow as the songs that make up this new album go by.
With 9 tracks that last around 34 minutes, approximately, Degeneration Chambear is an album that demonstrates the accelerated virtuosity of musicians who give their all for their own music, because even if they don't have a record label in between, the members of Condition Critical are bringing us an album extremely capable of competing with the great bands that have forged Thrash Metal since the 80s and that now in these instances having bands that play that subgenre of Metal with new, more modern touches and that have forged a name for themselves in extreme music, we could say that this group reaches that pinnacle of bands that are the faithful standard-bearer of something that has managed to survive over the years.
Condition Critical has our deepest respect, they have brought a sick and completely violent creation, a new material that cries out to be heard and that will truly leave you with that beautiful feeling of wanting to get s**t done in the moshpit with this type of frenetic music that feeds the heart, so I can only say listen to the album Degeneration Chamber and follow this band, because the truth is you will not regret having this group in your collection of music that is worth appreciating.
Featured songs: Wretched Aggression, Cranial Dissolution, Postmortal Simulation, Incubation Disposal, Cryonic Intestinal Preservation.
Condition Critical Line-up:
Ryan Taylor - Vocals, Guitars
Tony Barhoum - Lead Guitars
Mike Dreher - Bass
Ryan Donato - Drums.
FFO: HAVOK, Warbringer, Demolition Hammer, Exodus.
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