Onslaught - Sounds of Violence
I’m old. I bought Power from Hell (1985) and The Force (1986) when they were brand-new releases, and probably still have my antique cassettes around here somewhere if they haven’t already disintegrated into dust. They’re classic Thrash albums that have, as far as I’m concerned, stood the test of time, and despite sharing some members (guitarist Nige Rockett, drummer Steve Grice, and believe it or not, The Force’s singer Sy Keeler), this Onslaught might as well be an entirely different band. In fact, it might as well be Exodus, let’s say from their Shovel Headed Kill Machine album on forward. I remember thinking that Onslaught’s 2007’s return-from-the-grave, Killing Peace, was okay, but then never felt like listening to it more than a handful of times. I suppose that for a “modern” Thrash album Sounds of Violence isn’t bad, and Sy’s vocals are absolutely vicious (when he doesn’t foolishly distort/overdrive them as in the title track, or have to shout some of the more stupid lyrics), which in this case is not entirely a compliment. But “not bad” isn’t anywhere nearly good enough for The Devil’s Legion, even with no less than Phil Campbell and Tom Angelripper helping out on the sterile cover of Motorhead’s “Bomber.” All I could think of while listening to this is how much more I’d rather be hearing something these guys seem to have forgotten:
“Hellbound the horsemen ride
Let there be death to all
Ride through the burning skies
See that no one survives
Send their souls to Hell
Let there be death!”
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Stormbreaker said:
I always thought that the lyrics were “Hellfire horsemen ride / Let there be death to all / Fly through the burning skies…”
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