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Vio-lence - Oppressing The Masses



8 | 103 votes |
Release date: 13 July 1990
Style: Bay Area thrash metal

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01. I Profit
02. Officer Nice
03. Subterfuge
04. Engulfed By Flames
05. World In A World
06. Mentally Afflicted
07. Liquid Courage
08. Oppressing The Masses

Line-up
Sean Killian - vocals
Phil Demmel - guitars
Robb Flynn - guitars
Perry Strickland - drums
Deen Dell - bass

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Comments: 6   Visited by: 167 users
01.04.2015 - 17:34
Rating: 6
Tomas Piller
This is a huge step down from their debut which was truly amazing trash attack. They went basically down the sink hole along with the genre.
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02.04.2015 - 02:47
Lit.
Account deleted
Sounds just as god-awful as the debut.
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05.11.2019 - 04:52
Rating: 9
Timelord
GREAT ALBUM!! Slower but still heavy as fuck!
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05.11.2019 - 06:37
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Staff
If they re-branded after their debut and released this it would have been much better received. It's not great or terrible, but when compared to Eternal Nightmare, it understandably gets dumpstered on.
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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21.04.2020 - 16:18
Rating: 7
JOPE OF STEELE
Steelemeister
To me most of the album is underwhelming songs. "I Profit" and "Officer Nice" is great start but it sounds like Vio-lence became 2nd Anthrax after those two songs, the rest with very generic songwriting. And I have given the songs plenty of opportunities in number of plays, yet they won't appear any better. The Eternal Nightmare's songwriting is missed and the vocals aren't as strong here either. I'm close to rating this average, but based on my previous experiences with average thrash I'd say this album is a tad better than that.
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15.02.2021 - 12:06
Rating: 6
Redel
Moderator
Written by JOPE OF STEELE on 21.04.2020 at 16:18

To me most of the album is underwhelming songs. "I Profit" and "Officer Nice" is great start but it sounds like Vio-lence became 2nd Anthrax after those two songs, the rest with very generic songwriting. And I have given the songs plenty of opportunities in number of plays, yet they won't appear any better. The Eternal Nightmare's songwriting is missed and the vocals aren't as strong here either. I'm close to rating this average, but based on my previous experiences with average thrash I'd say this album is a tad better than that.

I agree, the first two songs are good, the rest is average Thrash, even for the time. You were thinking of Anthrax, for me they remind of Overkill over a great part of this record.
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