The album opens to what sounds a little bit like the tuning of a radio with the sounds of a storm building up. In the matter of a few seconds. a drum hit and a furious guitar riff welcome you to the opening track, "Crack of Doom." From this moment forward, the fast and furious sounds of thrash do not let up, not even for a moment.
This is not an album about melody. You can throw that right out the window. The guitars of Ken Sato and Hiroyuki Inoue are raw, gruff, and incessant. The riffs are more like a punch to the face than a caress of the jaw and are the centerpiece of Samurai Crunch. They are backed by a solid, if mediocre, rhythm section of Masatomo Otani on drums and vocalist Manabu Hirose handling the bass. As for the vocals They are of the barked variety and fit the style perfectly.
So, when you start up Worship, here are a few tracks to key in on: "New Kind of Wicked," "Built My Brain," and "Lost."
Bottomline. While not moving into uncharted waters, grief of WAR does a great job of navigating the waters of the past. This is thrash of the old school variety, no frills, straight ahead, and angry. Press play and be prepared to rock!
Recommended.
Article comments
1 - Evan
to me they remind me of the angry sounds of slayer while at the same time using anthrax's insanity
it sounds like anthrax did a cover-tune for slayer