🎶 Lomor
🌎 Ravine des Cabris, Reunion
📀 Shabouk Rouge
® Rockshots Records
📅 06/02/2026
In a corner of the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Madagascar, there is a small island with about 900,000 inhabitants, Reunion. Three of them, Babouk (vocals and guitars), Micha (bass) and Typhus (drums), decided in 2018 to create a Thrash Metal band called LOMOR (“the dead” in the local Reunion creole dialect).
LOMOR on February 6th are expected to release their second full-length album entitled “Sabouk Rouge”, an old school thrash album that could have been written in the golden decade of the 80s. The interesting fact is that they used the local Reunion creole dialect to a large extent, which gives the album a welcome originality. The album includes 11 songs with a variety of themes. For example, the “eponymous”Sabouk Rouge” opening song talks about the scourge of slavery that existed on the island until the 19th century and how modern slavery is imposed on Western societies, while “A Shiny Day of a Vampire” is about a vampire’s desire to see the sun. “La Haine” is an indictment of all religions that have cursed humanity for centuries. “La Pouss” talks about crazy car racing, which is one of the most popular activities on the island, while “Panzram” attempts to discover the source of the hatred that an American serial killer from the early 19th century, Carl Panzram, had inside him. As can be seen, there is no thematic coherence, but LOMOR simply expressed musically whatever was on their mind or interested them.
As for the compositions, as expected, we are talking about classic Thrash Metal characterized by fiercy aggression, fast rhythms with few exceptions (such as the excellent mid tempo “La Haine”), devastating drums that essentially define the speed and technical guitars. I single out the guitar solos in “Sanctuary” and “A Shiny Day for a Vampire” but I am sure that anyone who listens to it will discover several parts that they will find interesting since LOMOR have attempted to maintain an originality in each of their songs.
In general, we are talking about a typical Thrash Metal album with exotic touches that fans of the genre will definitely like.
★ 7,5/10
✍🏻 Kostas Boudoukos
