Imagine waking up every day with the sky pressing down like a steel lid, your own dirt claimed by someone else’s boots, and the sound of gunfire as common as a morning rooster. That’s the jagged edge Spoiled, the Italian thrash/crossover crew, slices into with “Filastin,” the latest track off their debut full-length Collapse.
Premiering as an official lyric video right here on IDIOTEQ, it’s a sonic Molotov cocktail lobbed straight at the heart of endless war politics, and it doesn’t pull punches.
The band lays it out plain: “The song is about Palestine. We try to figure out how it could be to live like a prisoner in your own land, is about the fault of the endless war politics that both the parts still carrin’ on and, sadly, is about the children that are dying everyday…”
It’s a thrash-metal howl against confinement, a middle finger to the suits who keep the war machine grinding, and a grim nod to the kids caught in the crossfire.
The video, crafted by Stefano Mastronicola, pairs the lyrics with visuals that hit like shrapnel.
Formed back in 2016 by drummer Zibbo (known for pounding skins with Buffalo Grillz), Spoiled kicked things off with a self-titled EP in 2018, fully self-produced and dripping with DIY venom.
Lineup shifts and a hiatus could’ve buried them, but by 2021, they clawed back with Yari (Mind Knot) on bass and Pekkia (Underball) on guitar joining Zibbo and vocalist Danny Boy. The result was a reformed beast, leaner and meaner, dropping their second EP Anti Human Machine Gun in 2022—a 14-track blitz co-released by a handful of underground labels.
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Now, with Collapse, they’ve gone full bore. Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Stefano Morabito at 16th Cellar Studio—a spot that’s birthed records for heavyweights like Decrepit Birth and Fleshgod Apocalypse—this debut album is 15 tracks of thrash/crossover at a neck-snapping 250 BPM.
It’s a love letter to the genre’s pioneers: D.R.I.’s crossover chaos, S.O.D.’s snarl, Slayer’s razor-sharp riffs, and the snotty energy of Iron Reagan and Municipal Waste.
You can hear Crumbsuckers in the breakdowns, Ratos de Porão in the feral urgency, Raw Power in the sheer disrespect for silence, and Nuclear Assault in the apocalyptic undertow. Spoiled doesn’t just nod to these legends—they channel them into a chainsaw of their own making.
“Filastin” is a visceral stab at what it means to be caged in your own home, where every border feels like barbed wire and every day’s a gamble with death. The lyrics, penned by the band themselves, don’t waste time on vague platitudes—they zero in on the suffocation of occupation, the stupidity of perpetual conflict, and the body count piling up while politicians posture.
Danny Boy’s vocals shred through the mix like a rusty blade, backed by Pekkia’s guitar work that’s all jagged edges and no mercy. Yari’s bass rumbles like a tank rolling over rubble, and Zibbo’s drums hammer it home with the precision of a firing squad.
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The album itself, out via Gruesome Records (GRCD045) and Selvajaria Records (SR021CD018), comes as a jewel case CD with an 8-page booklet—a physical artifact for a sound that feels like it could smash concrete.
Spoiled’s journey to this point hasn’t been smooth. The lineup changes and break could’ve left them as another casualty of the underground, but instead, they’ve come out swinging harder.
Collapse is a statement from a band that’s stared down its own chaos and decided to weaponize it.
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“Filastin” leads the charge, a track that’s as much about thrash’s roots as it is about the real-world wreckage it’s screaming into.
