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.