Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
Critic Score
Based on 15 reviews
2017 Ratings: #153 / 940
User Score
Based on 318 ratings
2017 Rank: #144
Liked by 33 people
February 24, 2017 / Release Date
LP / Format
Southern Lord / Label
Thrash Metal / Genre
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CRITIC REVIEWS

90
Exclaim!

Power Trip have returned, fiercer and unrulier than ever before, with their latest full-length, Nightmare Logic, outdoing their already-raucous LP Manifest Decimation and taking all elements of their sound to new heights.

85
The Line of Best Fit

Despite taking almost four years to arrive, Nightmare Logic couldn’t have come at a better time. 2017 is likely to produce some of the angriest music since Vietnam, and Power Trip are the perfect act to lead an army head-long into battle.

84
Pitchfork

You don’t need to be a metalhead to have a blast with Nightmare Logic. Screamed sardonics, persistent chug, and apocalyptic melodrama are all acquired tastes, sure. But Power Trip’s fist-pumping choruses, ricocheting grooves, and ample charm are so animated that they leave us with something addictive and, well, fun.

80
musicOMH
Throwing their hat into the ring (it’ll be a baseball cap, obviously) Power Trip have released an album that taps into the thrash and metal scene of the ’80s so perfectly that it practically needs carbon dating to check that it was actually made in 2017. Clearly the revival is on.
80
PopMatters

Nightmare Logic is already among the best metal releases of this still-young year and easily one of the most inspired and thought-provoking of the decade. Here’s hoping that Power Trip keeps this level of intensity and inspiration coming for a long, long while.

70
The Needle Drop

Power Trip's second album for Southern Lord Records brings thrash metal back with a fucking vengeance.

Aoaystheory
88

RIP Riley Gale

MaceBlade42
82

RIP Riley Gale. You put out an incredible album here that'll probably only grow on me over time.

STW
83

What a raging metal album with lots of vengeance and bite. RIP Riley Gale. Great artist and what an album.

SamuelStudios
90

This is the kind of high energy shit I want from thrash.
Highlights: Firing Squad, Soul Sacrifice, Crucifixation
Low Points: If Not Us Than Who, Executioners Tax (Swing of the Axe)

ballfartmonkey
89

this shit is so heavy and in your face
rip Riley

Vainglory56766
85

This is a definitive thrash album for me, I seriously wish the whole genre sounded like this.
I remember I put this bitch on when I stumbled into the lynel colosseum in the depths of tears of the kingdom. Fucking wild hour of my life.

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