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.
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.
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.
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.
Power Trip's second album for Southern Lord Records brings thrash metal back with a fucking vengeance.
RIP Riley Gale. You put out an incredible album here that'll probably only grow on me over time.
What a raging metal album with lots of vengeance and bite. RIP Riley Gale. Great artist and what an album.
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)
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.
1 | Soul Sacrifice 4:12 | 94 |
2 | Executioner's Tax (Swing of the Axe) 3:46 | 79 |
3 | Firing Squad 3:19 | 89 |
4 | Nightmare Logic 4:23 | 91 |
5 | Waiting Around to Die 4:24 | 81 |
6 | Ruination 3:11 | 79 |
7 | If Not Us Then Who 4:11 | 81 |
8 | Crucifixation 5:22 | 79 |
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