Artist: BLIND ILLUSION
Album: WRATH OF THE GODS (CD)

Release date: 07.10.2022
EAN/UPS: 8715392224829
Media type: CD

Bay area thrash Metal legend Blind Illusion returns after 34 years with a follow-up to “the sane asylum”, featuring Doug Piercy (ex-Heathen) and Andy Gallon (ex-Death Angel)!

Thrash as a primitive, earthy genre has given us many greats: Metallica, Slayer, Exodus, Death Angel, Heathen and the like. But the more calculated, technical, and ultimately colorful inventors of progressive Thrash, a genre that blossomed handsomely after Watchtower’s debut in 1985, are what truly push the limits of Thrash and test its creative bandwidth. Blind Illusion on their new album “Wrath of the Gods”, achieve this to a degree that has seldom been approached, let alone passed, in the rest of Thrash history, just as they did 34 years ago on “The Sane Asylum”.

What is most impressive and revealing about this album, however, is not the technical ability of the musicians involved (although there is nothing wrong with their ability). It’s the pure brilliance that shapes every song, and the demonstration of how focusing on the art of songwriting will work wonders for a band. “Straight as the Crowbar Flies” introduces us first to the astral energy this album exudes, with catchy riffing and Marc Biedermann’s raspy, growling vocals. The screeching guitar solos and the abrupt rhythm changes keep the song fresh, but the band’s incorporation of technical Thrash elements crossed with extremely catchy riffing and drum arrangements proves to be the strong attributes of this album.

TRACKLIST CD/ LP:

1. Straight as the Crowbar Flies
2. Slow Death
3. Protomolecule
4. Spaced
5. Wrath of the Gods
6. Behemoth
7. Lucifer’s Awakening

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