Band:	Toxic Holocaust
Album:	Conjure And Command
Style:	Blackened thrash metal, Crossover thrash metal
Release date:	July 19, 2011
A review by:	Doc G.

01. Judgment Awaits You
02. Agony Of The Damned
03. Bitch
04. Red Winter
05. Nowhere To Run
06. I Am Disease
07. In The Depths (Of Your Mind)
08. The Liars Are Burning
09. Revelations
10. Sound The Charge
11. Helga Lost Her Head [Repulsion cover]

Joel Grind, lay off the crack. Actually, do more. I don't know, does crack inspire you to make music like this? Well, whatever he's been dosing himself with, I say he needs to continue doing it. This is pretty vicious. Pretty really vicious.

This album is like a mix of Toxic Holocaust, with Toxic Holocaust, meets Toxic Holocaust. If Joel Grind and Joel Grind created a love-child, I'm pretty sure that child would grow up to make music like this. It's the teeth-shattering thrash monster known as Toxic Holocaust that we're all used to, but every aspect is just cranked in all directions from what we've seen in the past; it's bouncier, faster, slower, heavier, louder, thicker, angrier, funner, darker, catchier, brutal-erish. If music could grow a hard-on, this would be Toxic Holocaust at it's vein-iest.

Naturally, comparisons have to be drawn between Conjure And Command and the last release An Overdose Of Death.... Now, Overdose was just flat-out kick ass, so is Conjure better? No. But is it worse? Nope. It's just different. In the quest to create an all-around meatier sound, that nifty punk rock charm found in the previous albums is gone, but in exchange we get a more rabid, pure metal version of the bands former self. It's a sideways evolution; a step in a new direction, no better, no worse. Hell, if Toxic Holocaust can maintain the quality heard here and in Overdose, while pushing themselves in new directions, they've got a satisfying discography ahead of them.