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| 2.0 poor | ManiacBlasphemer | September 26th 19 |
This was Razor in its edgelord phase. A period characterized by band members not knowing well their musical direction and what kind of music they want to compose. Coupled with amateurish decision in choosing production quality and mixing and here you have Executioner's Yawn, pardon, got confused, Executioner's Song. Due to the very, very bad production, a typical pop production that pushes the vocals to the front while burying the guitar in the mix, whatever potential these songs may have is forsaken. There is a reason why thrash metal started in the 80s and not in the 70s or 60s. The technology wasn't there yet. And even when it was, there were few people who knew how to properly use it, thus explaining why so many thrash bands had production difficulties in their early days. Razor is a rather schizophrenic band in a sense, which I explained in my Open Hostility review. They recorded brilliant stuff and mediocre or outright crap stuff in a very short amount of time (less than 10 years). Their debut LP falls into the mostly crap stuff. The song with some potential that somehow sticks out is the opener, but even that one has its potential limited by the awful production. It is nothing short of a miracle how this band in one year and a half jumped from poorly written/produced dross such as the debut EP and this LP, to the excellently done Evil Invaders, a true thrash classic. Were they abducted by aliens and lobotomized after before releasing Evil Invaders?
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| 4.0 excellent | Resident Metalhead Piranha | April 14th 17 |
Razor may borrow heavily from British wave heavy metal, but they take the best elements of said wave, fuse it with the muscle and speed of american-bred thrash metal, and put out an impressive, fun debut. It's raw and unrefined, but the songs, riffs, vocals, and [surprisingly] the bass work stand out. One of the better thrash debuts and a fine beginning for an impressive band.
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| 3.5 great | foxxxy | March 18th 24 |
| 3.5 great | Elmo | July 29th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | gocsa666 | December 28th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | nbats | November 12th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Coast | November 3rd 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mitch | August 16th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | GamamJ | February 4th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | jfish226 | November 25th 19 |
| 3.5 great | jmal00 | September 19th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | gk1979 | August 16th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | GazAldo | June 30th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | jpjpablo | December 23rd 16 |
| 4.5 superb | Brumas | November 27th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Ianman | August 28th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Jeejee | July 15th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | bungy | October 8th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | skbyrum | June 20th 15 |
| 2.5 average | Aion | March 8th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Abraxas | February 25th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | MikeC26 | February 16th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | jopower | October 16th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | ZedO | June 25th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | KILL | February 29th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Enex | November 4th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | aeuk | November 17th 09 |
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