Frisco Bay Area Thrashers Kaos live up to their name on their follow up to 2010's “The Pits of Existence” with “Validated In Blood”. This 5 song EP is a hammering, unrelenting piece of metalwork that gets right up in your face, and then proceeds to kick your teeth out one by one. Singer Jason Darnell's orally assaults the eardrums with some fine moments of classic metal core grunts and shrieks.

Guitarist Stacey Murray and newcomer drummer Jason Darnell rip thru the songs with a frenetic Slayer like pacing. There's no room for any of that Emo/Nu Metal bullshit here. Their raw meat and potatoes approach to the songs is definitely refreshing island amongst a sea of trendy metallic turds which tend to rule the airwaves in today’s market.

A short yet solid offering to the metal gods, Kaos delivers the goods in the classic way of Exodus/Sepultura in brutality and speed without sounding dated. From the first cut ‘United We Kill’, to the last a cover of legendary Bay Area Thrashmeisters Vio- Lence's ‘Kill On Command' this album will most definitely have you screaming bloody murder for more.