Cost: $2.00
This has some decent moments, but often feels uneven. The first few tracks are a mix of classic and modern thrash influences, although they feel rather disjointed because of the overly extreme vocals (there are standard gutturals too, but the vocalist obviously has a great love of higher raspy DM screams). Other than them sounding kind of silly and clipped during the more rapid fire deliveries, I have no problems with the actual vocals themselves, they just seem largely out of place. The vox work far better with the greatly increased death metal influences of the last two songs, which are unfortunately both overly long tracks at the end of the disc, well after ear fatigue set in. There are even some occasional progressive thrash touches, like the solo section in "AK-47" and the acoustic guitar in "Angels' Inferno."
This doesn't quite suffer from the same sort of generic mediocrity many of my other bargain bin finds do, though even with some raging riffage here I won't deny I wasn't particularly impressed overall. Not a bad score for 2 bucks; just be warned it's not the straightforward classic thrash listen the hype sticker and some reviews would have you believe.
