SLUGGARD is a one man project from Australia that plays something like Thrash metal, with a little bonus of morbidity you do not hear so often in the thrashing recordings.The first song "With the flies" mostly reminds me of SLAYER ("Hell awaits"), with a bit of POSSESSED ("Seven churches") for some very early Death metal touches. It has fast parts, mid-paced moments and varies enough to avoid boring you as an ugly bear. The vocals are a bit harsher and more extreme than usual thrash. The second track, "Scurvy", is the bad point: It's always mid-paced or slow... Where's the accelerating button?We come back to faster music with the third song entitled "Trotting cob" that begins in a fast blasting manner… Is it black metal or a reminding of INCUBUS ("Serpent temptation")? This track is still like old underground thrash, with enough fast parts, but fewer of SLAYER emerges.The last song "Too good to rat" also reminds me of old SLAYER ("Hell awaits"), with some NIHILIST and other ooold rotten demo stuffs from the past... Not bad, but the opening song was better.You probably noticed I quote SLAYER quite often in this review, maybe unreasonably… This might be due to the fact I listen to fewer and fewer thrash metal, and my knowledge of this genre tends to erase itself… (At least it could remind you old old zines from the 80’s when every bands sounded like Slayer AhAh)This tape could be a nice demo for underground freaks who are a lot into morbid thrash/ very early Death metal... It's not the brutal gangbang yet, and every songs aren't as nice as the first one, but when I hear this first track I imagine SLUGGARD could turn into a cool project in the future.