Cost: 99¢
Unbeknownst to me when buying this, the drummer here is Rigor Mortis' Harden Harrison, and the vocalist is Kurt Grayson, who was on that third, very Testament-sounding Wrath album. I found out immediately prior to listening. I point that out because normally that sort of bandmember pedigree would make me stupidly optimistic, but it didn't here. Too many letdowns have taken their toll, I guess.
The fast and mid-paced material here is groove metal. There's some punkish energy in the fastest stuff and there's a thrashy riff here and there, but nothing terribly interesting for the classic thrash fan (namely, me). The other half of the album goes for a slow-paced, sludgy, southern type of sound, perhaps like a b-level version of Down, who I don't particularly like in the first place. Unfortunately the main vocals are aggro nonsense. "War Horse" has some doomy stoner riffs approaching something you might find in a Wino project, but any potential it might have had is killed for me by those lame Anselmo-style vocals.
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