{"id":40058,"date":"2014-04-25T06:51:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T11:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/?p=40058"},"modified":"2014-04-25T06:51:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T11:51:58","slug":"helstar-this-wicked-nest-cd-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/2014\/helstar-this-wicked-nest-cd-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Helstar | <em>This Wicked Nest <\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">by Deb Rao<\/span><br \/>\n&#8211; Senior Columnist  &#8212;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Helstar-This-Wicked-Nest-350x350.jpg\" alt=\"Helstar - This Wicked Nest\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-40059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Helstar-This-Wicked-Nest-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Helstar-This-Wicked-Nest-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Helstar-This-Wicked-Nest.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Helstar is gearing up for the release of <em>This Wicked Nest<\/em> on April 29 via AFM Records. The speed metal band that hails from Texas return to their \u201880s thrash roots on This Wicked Nest. Singer James Rivera is at the top of his game belting out Spartan vocals. The fast and furious guitar riffs on this album never let up. Giving speed metal a new definition.<\/p>\n<p>Opening track \u201cFall Of Dominion\u201d is a political song with thrash overtones. What else would you expect from a band from Texas? \u201cSouls Cry\u201d and \u201cCursed\u201d keep the thrash going. The guitar work on this album is over the top. \u201cIt Has Risen\u201d combines the hard driving trepid drums riffs with James heavy vocals. Helstar reclaim their claim to being one of the top thrash bands with stand out title track \u201cThis Wicked Nest.\u201d The album has early Overkill overtones. James sounds a lot like Blitz. The band first formed in 1982 and take a page out of their past with this intense, guitar blistering release.<\/p>\n<p>Texas is a state known for their killer rock bands and Helstar does the Lone Star State proud with This Wicked Nest.  Be sure to catch the band on tour this Spring.<\/p>\n<p>Genre: Heavy Metal, Thrash Metal<\/p>\n<p>Band<br \/>\nJames Rivera \u2013 Vocals<br \/>\nLarry Barragan \u2013 Guitar<br \/>\nRobert Trevino \u2013 Guitar<br \/>\nJerry Abarca \u2013 Bass<br \/>\nMikey Lewis \u2013 Drums<\/p>\n<p>Track Listing<br \/>\n1.\tFall Of Dominion<br \/>\n2.\tEternal Black<br \/>\n3.\tThis Wicked nest<br \/>\n4.\tSouls Cry<br \/>\n5.\tIsla De Las Munecas<br \/>\n6.\tCursed<br \/>\n7.\tIt Has Risen<br \/>\n8.\tDefy The Swarm<br \/>\n9.\tMagormissabib<\/p>\n<p>Label: AFM Records<\/p>\n<p>Website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/helstar.metal \" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com\/helstar.metal <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hardrock Haven rating: 8\/10 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">by Deb Rao &#8211; Senior Columnist &#8212; Helstar is gearing up for the release of This Wicked Nest on April 29 via AFM Records. The speed metal band that hails from Texas return to their <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/2014\/helstar-this-wicked-nest-cd-review\/\" title=\"Helstar | This Wicked Nest \">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10848],"tags":[8645,2317,2491,1969,6292,9210,1101],"class_list":{"0":"post-40058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arcrvws2014","8":"tag-afm-records","9":"tag-cd-review","10":"tag-heavy-metal","11":"tag-helstar","12":"tag-james-rivera","13":"tag-this-wicked-nest","14":"tag-thrash-metal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}