Bonjour Gorod!

- Anurag Tagat

WHEN ONE OF THE MOST technically incisive metal bands in the circuit, French act Gorod, got called up to tour Europe with American thrash metallers Havok earlier this year, they decided it was as good a time as any to write a thrash metal EP.

Kiss The Freak, which released in April in time with their tour, took form when the band gathered at drummer Karol Diers’ birthday. Frontman Julien Deyres recalls, “We were talking. ‘Okay, let’s make a thrash metal EP and I think we can do it in two months.’ And we said, ‘Okay, let’s go!’ It was sort of a challenge for us.” Guitarist and co-founder Mathieu Pascal had also been to a Municipal Waste show, thoroughly impressed by the Virginia thrash veterans, that led to writing “Dig Into Yourself,” featured on their 2015 full-length A Maze of Recycled Creeds.