Very cool thrash that does a lot of thigns so right that it somewhat makes up for the things it does wrong, making for an album that excites me to delve further into the band;s discog. What it does right: it is short, fast, aggressive (which we see from the excellent 1), and ever changing, meaning the annoying parts rarely last more than 30s. It is well paced with eg. the mini break on the intro on 8 before 9 brings back the onslaught (being probs the most consistent track here, a jam). The vocals when they work evoke a very angry Maiden and that's cool. What it does wrong: sometimes the vocal don;t really work eg on 5 where they ruin an otherwise perfect start of a track - though they remain intelligently scarce), or on the quite aggressive 6. There is a fair bit of soloing or unnecessary guitar wanking, and whilst it's far from the worst I have heard sometimes you just want it to shut up so it stops covering the RIFFZS. This is very prominent on 2 and 3, or 10 where it gets quite tiresome. 4 is slower and one of teh outright least convincing tracks. 7 has an excellent intro that unfolds nto so well at first, then better, and I can't decide if I like the track overall or not. 11 is a wee bass-led interlude track that is really cool, into the lengthy conclusion on 12 that I don't really mind because at least there aren't solos and stuff. Exciting album! An optimistic 3.65
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