Teutonic Slaughter are a German thrash metal band who have been going since 2009, when they started out as Bone Shatters before changing their name in 2011. The band previously released the albums “Witches Rock ’n’ Roll” in 2016 and “Puppeteer Of Death” in 2018.
I have a lot of questions about some of this band’s choices. First of all, it’s a bit unusual to call an album “Cheap Food” – cheap food, really. The title track becomes unintentionally comical when they bellow “Cheap foooood” as if their lives depended on it. This is where I should point out that this is not a joke band in any way. This is classic German thrash metal in the same style as Kreator and Sodom. The next oddity is “Witches Rock ’n’ Roll”, because their debut album is called exactly the same. Did they run out of ideas and decide to steal from themselves by naming a song after a ten-year-old record they put out? Is it a track they wrote back then that never got finished until now? I don’t know, but it’s strange.
The cover art is also slightly comedic, with its many anatomical mistakes. To complete the picture, the accompanying press release is full of typos. So at least the album is consistent. Musically, this is standard thrash metal. They even make a point of that in the press release – this is straightforward old-school thrash metal, nothing more. Fair enough, but it sounds a bit too standard for me. This is the familiar formula thrash metal has been using for more than forty years now, and very often it has been done far better and with more variety.
Released January 30th, 2026 on Iron Shield Records.
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