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The intro seems very John Bush-Anthraxish to me, for whatever reason. Listening now and will be interesting to see how Steve Souza after being gone for a few.

At work, can't listen. I don't think I'm going to like the vocals at all listening to their old stuff.

Souza is an acquired taste for sure. If you don't dig the sneering, screechy vocal style it is probably not for you. Their last cd with him on it was great imo. Catchy as f**k. There is an inherent corniness to his vocals and lyrical slant, so there's that.

JiveTurkey wrote:Souza is an acquired taste for sure. If you don't dig the sneering, screechy vocal style it is probably not for you. Their last cd with him on it was great imo. Catchy as f**k. There is an inherent corniness to his vocals and lyrical slant, so there's that.

Ehhhh.....Yeah, I listened to some of the sold stuff with him. Music kicked ass vocals were awful to me. I loved Rob Dukes vocal approach. Ah well, I'll give it a listen when I can cause their music is usually top notch.

Awesome, gonna have to check this out. Exodus is where it's fucking St for thrash



I'm guessing Holt is using dsl on this?

Holy fuck a bad AC/DC cover band singer is singing for them. WTF? This....oh god. No.

Music sounds fine, but the vocals REALLY come out loud on my laptop. I'll hafta listen on something else and see if they're so overwhelming there.

I'll give this another go or two but good lord, after Rob, this is a rough transition back.

JiveTurkey wrote:Souza is an acquired taste for sure. If you don't dig the sneering, screechy vocal style it is probably not for you. Their last cd with him on it was great imo. Catchy as f**k. There is an inherent corniness to his vocals and lyrical slant, so there's that.

Yeah. I personally prefer Souza/Baloff stuff. I liked the stuff with Dukes but I came up on Bonded/Pleasures.

I'll give this a thorough listen.

To each his own, but this stuff in this vein is just not for me. The lyrics sound like they took a bunch of dr. seus books and substituted "blood" and "hell" for every noun and called it a day. It's on the level of unable to be taken seriously. Not saying they are bad players or musicians, they just need to take a lesson or two in song writing or originality.

Noizemaker wrote:To each his own, but this stuff in this vein is just not for me. The lyrics sound like they took a bunch of dr. seus books and substituted "blood" and "hell" for every noun and called it a day. It's on the level of unable to be taken seriously. Not saying they are bad players or musicians, they just need to take a lesson or two in song writing or originality.

Have you listened to much thrash? That's essentially what's required for 75% + of thrash songs.


Hell, blood, war, dying, killing, death, hate, anger. Mix and match as needed.

Those might actually be verbatim slayer lyrics, I'm not sure.

meh sounds very uninspiring to me. I don't even mind his vox I loved the toxic waltz era.

jnurp wrote:meh sounds very uninspiring to me. I don't even mind his vox I loved the toxic waltz era.

After listening to it, I have to agree. Seems kind of tired sounding. My favorite Exodus cd is Fabulous Disaster, fwiw. I was informed in the other Exodus thread that maybe my ears were broke during the Rob Dukes-era and perhaps they were right

I think coming up when all the leaders of this genre were fresh was good. At the time. Trying to compare their modern material to stuff back then (and how much I lived for it) versus my current, adulthood/zero-f**ks given attitude is where the problems start to arise

I've had it for a few days and I like it quite a lot. I always liked Zetro more than Dukes anyway.

AFAIK Gary and Lee are playing Engl Savage 120's.



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