Ultra Raptor Fossilized Review
Ültra Raptör
Fossilized
Fighter Records
2025
Somewhere between the molten breath of 1980’s Speed Metal and the bone-crunching swagger of modern Thrash, Ültra Raptör return with “Fossilized”, an album that rips through the fabric of time and space like a laser-eyed tyrant from a nuclear age. The Quebec quintet has always thrived on excess: the manic dual-guitar attacks, the screeching vocal assaults, the pedal-to-the-floor drumming, but here, everything sounds more sharpened, more feral, and more self-assured.
The title track “Fossilized” opens like a high-speed chase through a prehistoric wasteland, riffs churning like rusted gears brought back to life. Ültra Raptör aren’t content to merely rehash the past; they celebrate it with the kind of reckless abandon that reminds you why Heavy Metal survived the synth wars. Every solo spirals upward like a chrome-plated hawk, every chorus ignites like jet fuel. There is melody and chaos in equal measures, a rare balance that keeps things both fun and ferocious.
What really stands out this time is the songwriting discipline. Beneath the speed and bombast, there’s structure, choruses that stick, riffs that hook, and a sense of momentum that never dips into repetition. The vocals are an unholy crossbreed of Classic Metal shriek and late-night alleyway screams, giving the music its teeth. It’s heroic but not polished; brutal, but not soulless.
The production keeps things razor-sharp without scrubbing the grit off the bones. The drums punch through like a meteor storm, the bass rumbles low enough to shake your teeth loose, and those twin guitars feel like lightning trapped in steel.
By the time the final track fades out, you’re left scorched. “Fossilized” feels like a transmission from a parallel world where the golden age of Speed Metal never ended, it just mutated and evolved with radioactive precision.
Ültra Raptör aren’t trying to be part of any revival. They are the revival, born from fire, fed by riffs, and ready to stomp across the modern Metal landscape like an iron-scaled beast that refuses extinction.
This is a blistering, full-throttle Speed Metal assault that honors the past but bites like the future. It’s a monument to velocity, ferocity, and unrelenting fun, proof that the raptor still hunts.
Stand outs – “Hard N’ Fast”, “X-Celerator”, “Down The Drain”.