Revenge At All Costs fizzles to life with the sound of TV static and news snippets. Admittedly, such an opening has become a cliché, especially in thrash metal circles, but postpone your eye-rolls. The sampled reports aren’t studio-created facsimiles to make Confess sound more seismic than they actually are; they’re all real pieces of global coverage, documenting the seven years of hell that led up to the Iranians’ third album.Just days after the release of Confess’s last full-length, 2015’s In Pursuit Of Dreams, core members Nikan Khosravi and Arash Ilkhani were arrested in their home country. Their only crime was making anti-establishment, bullheaded metal, for which they were put on trial on charges of blasphemy and propaganda against the state. They endured solitary confinement and interrogations, followed by 18 months in jail before fleeing to Norway and seeking asylum. There they’ve reactivated the band wi