Sacred Reich softens their approach even more, with nothing here even reaching the fastest parts of The American Way. Most of this album is pretty good and catchy, much more accessible than most of anything on Ignorance. This album somewhat feels a bit like a product of the times, what with the style of riffage and sudden Eb tuning. The title track's video just screams early '90s. Said title track's main riff is fucking awesome and high energy, and while Just Like that is a bit overlong, it still has a sick as fuck groove. Crawling is obviously inspired by Black Sabbath; listen to the riff at about 5:08 and tell me that they weren't jamming to some Master of Reality recently. Phil's vocals are quite strained on I Never Said Goodbye (His performance on this album overall seems to indicate that his vocal cords have taken a beating), but it's still a decent little ballad. Other good tracks include the fun and fast paced Pressure, and moody instrumental If Only. A couple songs on here kinda mediocre, and the riffs do tend to sound similar, but I still contend that this is a pretty cool little album.
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