Whoa! Continuing with my current theme of album reviews…
WARBEAST: Krush The Enemy
Holy Balls! Do you like thrash metal? Are you starting to get sick of the thrash revival? Same here! However, Warbeast kicks a serious amount of ass. I picked up this debut album from Housecore Records (Phil Anselmo’s burgeoning record label - The dudes got a good ear for music - he should -I mean he’s in about tres billion other bands.) and let me tell you; if you were looking for some really diesel powerful and rocking metal then this would be the album to buy. These Texans definitely know how to keep the faith alive and make a fun straight forward album The album starts out strong with title track Krush Your Enemy and you know that once the vocals kick in that you are listening to something special. It also ends very strong. You can have a nice sit down and listen to this album in its entirety and probably play it again from start to finish. The cacophony of sound is very brutal but doesn’t get bogged down by mediocre riffing or derivative guitar parts. Lyrically you have pounding vocals about straight up thrash fair but the way Bruce Corbitt (ex-Rigor Mortis) weaves words together will leave a smirk on your face. There is some amazing originality on this record that is so rare in the modern day of metal. (At times the guitar tone is reminiscent of Dimebag Darrell’s, but not a rip off or hackneyed attempt to sound like the man himself. - Maybe it’s just a Texas thing) It’s actually extremely well produced and has a nice thick crunchy sound that many metal albums are missing today. I found myself headbanging along to it this morning at the gym which should tell you something. This is big sounding metal dude. There is no room for sweetness on this album as it is a 10 mile run at top speed jumping over everything in its way. Hopefully these guys will be around for a while and do a couple shows in New York.
