The style of “Evil Invaders” is very unique, a certain prototype of speed/thrash metal. While other speed/thrash bands like Flotsam and Jetsam and Heathen tried to mix about 75% speed metal and 25% thrash metal in their music, Razor went about it the opposite way. Here, the heaviness and scratchiness of thrash metal is way more apparent than the melodies and sophistication of speed metal. And that’s a great thing. It’s a perfect recipe for an album that’s fast as hell, heavy as a fuck, but at the same time, very catchy and melodic, and NEVER cheesy. This is pure fucking razor-sharp speed/thrash with absolutely no apologies and no mercy.

This album is their most complete one. There is not ONE average song on here, every one of them is a perfect candidate for one of the best songs in 1985. Whether it’s the haulin’ ass speed metal mania pieces like the title song, “Tortured Skull”, with that beautifully heavy and melodic riff at about 3:46, or the more mid-paced songs, like “Instant Death”, with it brutally ignorant verses, or “Cut Throat”, all of these songs are just MEAN. Besides them being melodic and catchy, they are also heavy and extremely sharp. There is not ONE second of boredom or mediocrity throughout the entire damn release, man. It’s crazy.