Swedish thrashers Black Cyclone's debut full length album Death Is King is an unstoppable, speed metal assault filled with NWOBHM-styled solos, clean, high-pitched vocals and a set of lyrical themes ranging from Lovecraft myths and anti-religion to anarchy and anti-establishment. The band sinks their roots into early Bay Area, US thrash and classic European thrash (Destruction, Sodom, Kreator).