Alright, that's not a fair assessment here. At only 23 minutes or so, this debut album by a now long disbanded, mostly forgotten Thrash band sounds like it would be a lot of fun. Some old school fun, blasty music. What could go wrong? Unfortunately, quite a bit.

I'll start with the main positive - even though this is a thrash album, only the vocals separate it from being a borderline grindcore album. It's scrappy, dangerous, DIY, and ... read more

8mo

slandro2

Interesting barebone death metal but very very very repetitive

3mo

BranBarrhopper

Canadian biases coming through or underrated classic of the era? Depends on who ya ask lmao but I love this album a lot.

Pure thrash isn't normally my thing. I find it to be a very one note genre, which seems to be a common consensus here, but when it's mixed with other genres I find it can be fun. Strappado is thrash with some punk sensibilities. The vocals in particular are more punk oriented than thrash in my opinion. More barked than growled, though we do get some classic metal ... read more

7mo

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