✦✦✦✧ Finally, a halfway-fresh-feeling album of rethrash from Bay Area veterans Exodus! You’d have to go back to 2004’s Tempo Of The Damned to find its equal. Guitarists Gary Fucking Holt and Lee Altus deliver the goods, and Steve Souza sounds as manic as ever. That said, the album does go on a little too long… there, I said it. See the rest here
I’ve gotta give Mike Portnoy props for doing this even remotely well, and for seeming to know a whole lot of other band’s tunes. Also, I’m totally into forcing bands who want to promote their new albums… into playing on preposterously shitty gear.
★★☆☆ Much like Overkill, Exodus is in the business of giving you meat-and-potatoes thrash metal. But as much love as I give Exodus (or anyone) for flying the vintage thrash banner, this album feels a bit too retro. A big part of the problem is that, rather than trying to bring the old form into the present day to freshen it up, the album seems stuck somewhere between 1997 and 2003. See the rest here
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