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LOUD AND PROUD- August 21, 2017
Heavy Metal Web Magazine, (Italy)

Not even the time to hit the play button that we must call an ambulance and get us to pieces in the hospital. Oh yes, because of the opener 'Infinite Jest' and immediately we are overwhelmed by a overkilliana broadside fired at full speed against our poor orecchiucce. A great business card for this sketchy band of Philadelphia formed by the crash of the city thrash-hardcore scene. The US band comes to the long-running debut with the eighth Massacre Records, sparking a real storm of kicks and fists flying across metallic Europe. Overkill said, perhaps one of the influences more, especially under vitriolic Otto Luck, but also a lot stradaiola attitude that translates into punkeggianti splinters as 'The Form Destroyer / Killing Floor' or more rhythmic rappettoni songs like the grotesque 'The World' (Who said Primus ?!). Often, such albums are lacking in originality and variety, beating roads and safe trails without even a curve or a dangerous ravine. To The End A.D. rather like venturing off the beaten path and protected territories and, if we give a listen to the seven minutes of the dilated, 'Voyage Of The Damned' we understand why. US hardcore metal? Do we light it up? It's the definition - it's dangerous, and not just - right? Well, it would seem so. A hybrid, a classic and modern encounter that we enjoy very much and is an inviting rarity. Melody, speed, beat and power mingle with each other and then defrost us straight in the face. 'Scorched Earth' could be the result of a reasoned jam session between musicians each of different artistic extraction, but always linked to the road and to the chaotic past lives in the shadow of skyscrapers unreachable. We think we have already spent too many words, such a work should be heard, understood and enjoyed. And 'wise madness put metal disk, a spot of Rorschach in which we will see all or nothing, knowing that we can hardly look away and not to be enthralled by its eerie beauty.
—Martino Brambilla Pisoni
www.loudandproud.it

METALLIAN Magazine, August 7, 2017
(France)

The first album of The End A.D., Scorched Earth, successfully launches this Philadelphia band. From the start, it is clear from the title song, Scorched Earth, that The End A.D. has a specific style, particularly in the vocal excesses of Otto Luck. A fusion of classical "hard'n'heavy" and (punk) hardcore, these vocal features give The End A.D a significant degree of eccentricity and a dose of boosted energy. On an instrumental level, when the riffs are built on the aggressiveness of power chords, the notes fly away on a galloping rhythm, giving Scorched Earth a particularly tense and effective atmosphere. For the remainder, this premier album displays a consistently and assuredly successful tone, which promises beautiful things for the future. In short, with Scorched Earth's success, The End A.D. leaves its mark, and it is not the obsessions of Calvin Klein who will say the opposite. I'll let you discover the relationship with CK.
—Romain Richez
www.metallian.net