Body count - Carnivore

Body count

Carnivore

Three years after bloodlust is here the new body count album, released on century media.  It's released in a lot of colors.  I got 3 of them.  Transparent red (century media), mint green (EMP) and sun yellow transparent (nuclear blast).  All limited to 200 copies.  All come with a cd, double sided poster and lyrics sheet.  This is after the debut album defenitely their best.  It's the most thrashy album they made, just listen "to point the finger" with guest vocals of Riley Gale (Power trip).  There are more guest vocals on it, Jamey Jasta's (hatebreed) contribution isn't that impressive on "another level".  Then Amy Lee does it better on "when I'm gone".  Together with the vinyl bonus track the albu has 3 covers on it.  2 Ice-t reworks and the motorhead cover, they all sound sice but I rather had 1 or 2 more original tracks on it.  It feels like the album had to be released however it wasn't completed yet.  Despite this it's a great album, it starts heavy and aggressive and that's how it ends.

Bonded - Rest in violence

Bonded

Rest in violence

A new German thrash band with former members of Sodom, Suicidal angels and Assassin.  This album is released on century media and limited to 200 copies, I have a nice dark green one.  This is one of the best thrash records that I heared in the last years.  It's aggressive and still have enough melody to make the tracks recognizeble.  This album got power, melody and the raw voice of Ingo Bajonczak which fits this music well.  The titletrack has the guestvocals of Bobby Ellsworth (Overkill) on this killing fast track.  The resting point on the album is "No cure for life", it's not a balad but it's a lot slower.  After that it's thrashy again.  This is definitely an album you got to hear.

Cro-mags - In the beginning

Cro-mags

In the beginning

After 20 years there's finally a new cro-mags album.  All the members there in the band now have already been, at some time, in the cro-mags.  In Europe it's released on Arising empire records.  When I got the tracklist I was a little disappointed because half of the tracks are also on the earlier released ep's, I was hoping for more new stuff.  These are ofcourse good tracks and the album starts with 4 of them.  Most of the tracks are fast and furious with aggressive vocals on it.  On the second half of the album there is some more variation in the tracklist.  "The final test" has more clean vocals, "Two hours" is a groovy track with spoken lyrics on it.  The third divergent track is the instrumental "between wars", not my favourite track on the album.  It's also on the "from the grave" 7".  All by all this is a good cro-mags album, the most hardcore album they made with not that many metal influences.  I have the nuclear blast version (bilious green) and the EMP version (clear red) both limited to 200 copies.  The coretex color is on the way and there also 4 colors released in the US.