Destruction - Cracked Brain
This LP is unbelievable. It’s the best Destruction album ever. The songs are fast and heavy, and also very memorable. Everyone works together very well, the guitars are impressive as are the drums and bass. The vocals are powerful without being especially raw. It’s almost a new style. I think this is what Steve Souza (Exodus) wants his vocals to sound like (don’t bitch, Zetro is a good singer when he wants to be). Cracked Brain contains eight new songs and one cover, “My Sharona.” Don’t say anything about their choice of songs to cover until you hear it. It’s cool. The rest of the songs are out of this world, with my personal favorite being “Time Must End.” This is one of the best albums of the year, and I’m glad Destruction did it. The lyrics are interesting and make you think - they’re not the real gory kind of stuff. I highly recommend Cracked Brain, it’s what you always hoped Destruction would someday be.
{I’ve taken a fuck of a lot of crap about this review. Everyone who reads it tells me that they like the earlier albums better. And after all this time, I’d agree with that. It’s certainly not the first time I’ve changed my mind, or been proven wrong by the passage of time, but I must wonder if the legions of Destruction’s fans who love to give me a hard time about saying that Cracked Brain is Destruction’s best album, ever even heard Sentence of Death back in late 1990, when I wrote this review… And while this LP maybe has not stood the test of time as well as some, I still think it’s hard to beat.}
[Notes in {curly brackets} are from the Metal Curse 1 - 4 Collected Edition (1999)]
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