When putting this on I was momentarily confused because the first real track opens with (and reuses) a very black metal sounding blastbeat and riff combo. Most of the earlier tracks have more of a modernized thrash vibe influenced by Slayer (the first song has some riffage slightly reminiscent of "Postmortem," and then riffage elsewhere reminded me more of South.../Seasons... material). Not the best, but fairly in line with what I was intitially expecting. Sadly, with track 7 they really begin increasing the groove metal and core influences to where it's not really just thrash anymore, and sounds vaguely to me like Derrick Green-era Sepultura stuff. The vocals--which are the expected hoarse yelling at their core--are broken up with a lot of hysterial screams, which while not my thing, do break up the monotony. Even without the less thrashy tracks, there's nothing particularly special here. I have higher expectations even for more modernized thrash, although this is far from the worst I've heard for something in the style.
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