[1] Before its release, the band posted a live clip of their new song "In Mortal Fear", recorded during the group's 2005 appearance at the Bang Your Head!!!

Reception of the album has been generally positive, with many critics praising its sound and stating how several songs, such as the title track "Thrash Speed Burn", "Massacre Mountain" and "The Punisher", felt as if they were made in the 80s.

German metal review outlet Metal1 stated that "During the good 45 minutes of 'Thrash, Speed, Burn' Exciter show themselves the way their fans like them best because the record sounds as if it had beamed itself straight from the 80s into 2008 - with all the advantages and disadvantages."

The album's first five songs are absolute face-slashers; openers 'Massacre Mountain' and the title track especially will take you back to the kind of Metallica breakneck riff fusillades that made 'Kill 'Em All' such a molten blast of thrash.

John Ricci's riffs and soul-lacerating solos are heard far too infrequently in today's scene and vocalist Kenny Winter sports a banshee wail dripping with malevolent attitude."