Indestructible Noise Command - Heaven Sent… ...Hellbound
I hate it when I remember something -in this case, something from nearly 25 years ago- as being better than it really was. This new I.N.C. album is a horrible disappointment. I expected old school Thrash the way they used to play it (why else bother to re-form the band?), and although there are hints of that, it’s mostly not present, replaced with decidedly modern Thrash, and the worst clunky riffs of the abomination (and I mean that in the worst way possible) known as Nu-Metal, which was stupid enough when a lot of Thrash sell-outs were jumping on the bandwagon. But now it’s just perplexing. Hold on for a moment while I go listen to this band’s previous, and only, two other albums, 1987’s Razorback and 1988’s The Visitor… Okay, they’re not as good as I thought they were, but they’re not terrible. I don’t understand why Indestructible Noise Command felt the need to “update” their sound/style this much and still keep the same band name. I guess they wanted to play the old stuff live. Maybe seeing the marginal success of the reformations of Onslaught and Exodus made the I.N.C. guys want to give it another try, but do enough people even remember them to “cash in” on their name? Apparently Indestructible Noise Command just needed more than the 23 years they took to write a good album. I’d say “better luck next time,” but hopefully there will be no “next time.”
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