The classic golden years of The Sacred Thrash Metal were roughly from 1986 until somewhere around 1992. Tactical Strike will attempt to unearth ALL OF IT, including the peripheral years just before and just after.
Every THRASHDAY (Thursday, no duh) I will unleash both crucial artwork and a choice song from one album, replete with one single picture of 1987 Nike Air Max I high tops, a decision which should explain itself.
Oh or whenever I feel like it.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
DEVASTATION idolatry (1991)
Devastation, hailing from Corpus Christi, Texas.
Here is a clear example of a band from the scene Pantera punched their way into our hearts from. Devastation's last album knocks it down with a sheer wall of destroying, relentlessly pounding Thrash of the righteously Sacred kind, my friends. Many bands got that part right, only to carelessly allow their vocalist to flail around in a wacky, hilarious dance of mediocrity, but Devastation did not; this is where that real Texas feeling kicks you. This singer is raspy and punishing and always perfectly anthemic, a truly southern kind of Thrash approach. "Texas Always Moves 'Em" is right.
Artwork. Classic chaotic emblem just right for t-shirts, runic representations of every religion ever, all brought together by a particularly handsome cranius, blindfolded for our pleasure. I can't make fun of it, and you can't beat it.
NUMBER 13
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment