Massacre\/Sound Pollution<\/p>\n
Thrash success LEGION OF THE DAMNED has been at it since 2004, not 1990 as could be expected. They rose from the ashes of OCCULT, another fine band, to focus on horror themes and explosive thrash. This is their fifth album, and the success of their past four plus this new one recently got them booked on the bill of Sweden Rock Festival 2011. Sounds more than intriguing\u2026<\/p>\n
Repeated passages of spoken words in a chanting tone open the proceedings in \u201c\u2026 This Is the Age of\u2026\u201d. Night of the Sabbath\u201d has a lot of bite, the scorching vocals courtesy of Maurice Swinkels and lack of double bass drums add to the retro effect. It echoes of quite a lot of old thrash giants. \u201cWar Is in My Blood\u201d follows suit, and all you have to do is bang your head. The song titles must be heavily inspired by SLAYER, among other loans from Araya & Co. There might be some questions raised that a lot of this has been well and truly done before. But to make fresh sounds of old ingredients has payed off well to the likes of HAMMERFALL. Some more refrains would have benefitted them in songs like \u201cHoly Blood, Holy War\u201d though. The Dutchmen head for fine Bay Area pace in \u201cKillzone\u201d, which becomes a favorite. As a whole this has infectious grooves. A melodic background pattern makes wonders in \u201cThe Hand of Darkness\u201d, \u201cLord of the Flies\u201d also impresses me. It is really pleasant to get acquainted to LEGION OF THE SLAYED\u2026sorry DAMNED. <\/p>\n
Track List
\nDescent into Chaos
\nNight of the Sabbath
\nWar Is in My Blood
\nShrapnel Rain
\nHoly Blood, Holy War
\nKillzone
\nLord of the Flies
\nDesolation Empire
\nThe Hand of Darkness
\nRepossessed<\/p>\n
Bonus Track
\nLegion of the Damned <\/p>\n
www.massacre-records.com www.myspace.com\/legionofthedamned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Massacre\/Sound Pollution Thrash success LEGION OF THE DAMNED has been at it since 2004, not 1990 as could be expected. They rose from the ashes of OCCULT, another fine band, to focus on horror themes and explosive thrash. This is their fifth album, and the success of their past four plus this new one recently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cd_reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}