As the bio states that their previous releases were received with great reviews in different countries, I was curious if I would feel the same. The answer unfortunately has to be no. I’ll start with the thing that I like; the songwriting. The stuff they write certainly isn’t bad at all and you can hear they manage their instruments quite well. Luckily the guitars are produced great (contrary to the drums and vocals), so one can get into it pretty easily. Some good old-skool thrash metal action on An Awful Rage.

 

But the minors aren’t just only unoriginality. At least twice I felt like I heard a riff that was too familiar. I am pro-‘better steal something good than write something bad’, but with a style that lacks variety to start with you cannot get away with such things. Furthermore the drummer isn’t interesting at all and the vocals are just bad (well, not all the times though) and even more uninteresting. This is truly turning out to be an awful record instead of An Awful Rage.

 

I guess they must have sounded better in their previous line-ups, because I don’t think many people will really appreciate this. And that’s too bad, because I do think they have the potential to give us something better than this awful thing. At least they got one word of the album title right…