There are some good songs ("Savagery"...) but I don't think that this album is anywhere near as good as their last album...
Good, but nothing great...

Same quality as the previous one. Good enjoyable revivalist thrash. Nothing more, nothing less. Imo currently the most overrated revivalist thrash band, though.

Good one, but I liked Evile's last record even more.

I feel this album has no progress from their last ones.
Of course there are some kickass tracks like "Living Weapon" or "Savagery", but nothing not seen before (Speaking strictly of Warbringer's career, otherwise...)

A 7 for me.

Good as the last one

Perfect copycats are back I see. I listened to the album yesterday. "Revivalist" is the nice term, but I call it "rip-off". Originality is non-existent, but the songs are very solid and I did enjoy what I heard. 7-8 from me. Would be more if they actually tried to write their own songs instead of rehashing the classics.

I've only listened to this once so far but am immediately very impressed by it. I just find all of Warbringer's material so far to be extremely fun to listen to and no doubt in my mind that they are one of the best new Metal bands around.

I'm really getting sick of people saying Warbringer is 'unoriginal', I've heard every Thrash Metal Band under the sun and none sound anything like Warbringer, and hasn't anyone notice the evident evolution of this band since their last album? This is a great step forward in their career, I give it a 9, although the first 2 tracks were the only songs in the album I didn't like....

Written by Moosh666 on 01.10.2011 at 08:35

I'm really getting sick of people saying Warbringer is 'unoriginal', I've heard every Thrash Metal Band under the sun and none sound anything like Warbringer

I think you have a lot of listening to do still. Whoever told you you heard every thrash band under the sun, they lied.

Written by Daniell on 01.10.2011 at 13:40

Written by Moosh666 on 01.10.2011 at 08:35

I'm really getting sick of people saying Warbringer is 'unoriginal', I've heard every Thrash Metal Band under the sun and none sound anything like Warbringer

I think you have a lot of listening to do still. Whoever told you you heard every thrash band under the sun, they lied.

It was a figure of speech XD

Haven't heard the album yet but as long as we are on the topic of originality I think this album cover from 1989 is evidence that at least something isn't totally original here....
http://www.nolifetilmetal.com/rageofangels.htm

So Marcel again used overrated -_- (just pointing it out)

But yeah anyways, this album is great. Obviously those who already don't like Thrash resurgence will bash it (grin) but for the real thrash enjoyers, you'll love it. Also, some complaining that they are unoriginal, yeah yeah they're not ground breaking you can obviously see that they're inspired by bands like Exodus but calling it rip-off nah man lol but anyways the band's great good song writing, they play well and do awesome thrash metal.

^ We're still whipper-snappers. People who've been listening to thrash a lot longer than us not giving this much love is understandable. Like to think that Warbringer is unique enough, but they're obviously not original. Understand if the old-timers who've had Bonded By Blood and all the old Slayer albums for a couple decades now aren't digging the blatant hero-worship.

I'm younger than you but I'm with the old-timer crowd when it comes to thrash. This modern crap just doesn't do it for me.

Well well, I find this album quite good, even if "Waking Into Nightmares" is in my humble opinion one of the greatest Thrash metal albums of the past years (making this album not as good as that one), I find this one really good, I mean, as the review says, this shit makes you wanna beat the crap out of everyone around you, and for me, that is the real essence of Thrash metal, yeah, I know, some Demolition Hammer/Exodus/Dead Head worshiping here and there, but in the end, this is what I call influence, and if they know how to play it well, I'm fine with that.

And by the way, I don't think this band is overrated (as Marcel said haha), I think they deserve the praise they have been receiving lately, I mean, they don't deserve more, they don't deserve less, just the value they have right now.

Another awesome addition to this year's growing list of great Thrash metal albums, like the new releases of Toxic Holocaust, Havok, Diamond Plate and probably the new Vektor if it is released this year (haven't listened to the new Evile album in its entirety, but I'm pretty sure I won't like it at all).

Bloody hell that's some fine drum work! Overall this album is just too bland for me though despite a few great tracks.

WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT

Written by Garth Vader on 04.10.2011 at 07:52

Haven't heard the album yet but as long as we are on the topic of originality I think this album cover from 1989 is evidence that at least something isn't totally original here....
http://www.nolifetilmetal.com/rageofangels.htm

I doubt Warbringer would rip anything off from a Christian Metal band... And its a stretch at any rate saying that its a copy

Anyways, I like this review, this album is a real ripper. Walking around listening to Living Weapon makes me just wanna snuff the first person that looks like anything.

This album is so fucking great, if you are into thrash metal you've got to check this shit out!

Written by ahal on 28.10.2011 at 22:52
if you are into MODERN thrash metal you've got to check this shit out!

Fixed.

Modern thrash metal, really?
What would "modern" here actually mean? That it wasn't composed and recorded in the 80s and early 90s? That it clearly bears the influence of a thousand shitty metalcore bands? What?

On to the review, for me, the greatest strenght of this record is its "depth" and mood, crowned with some really killer riffs and songwriting that is obviously superior, more nuanced and in any way better thna their previous releases. Here I cannot but agree with Mooosh777, how can you people fail to notice the obvious improvement? This album is in no way a grand expansion of the genre (if that's even possible) some people seem to be looking for.

My grade would be 8.1 (some problems in the riff department, for example the speedy main riff on "Future Ages Gone"; and production lacks that certain punch)

Written by metal_communard on 30.12.2011 at 22:12
What would "modern" here actually mean? That it wasn't composed and recorded in the 80s and early 90s? That it clearly bears the influence of a thousand shitty metalcore bands? What?

I guess you can't get upset about the "plastic" production because some of the better thrash albums feature some of that, and I guess you can't fault them for not doing this 25 years ago or so when it actually mattered because they were born in the wrong time, and I guess the minimalistic aggression isn't their fault since they don't really have the same ingenuity as the pioneers and obviously everything they have to be upset about has already been articulated and expressed better than they could ever do, so maybe calling it modern thrash is inappropriate. Maybe we should just call it revivalist thrash like we've been doing all along.

Minimalistic aggression? That's hardly a fair assessment of WTA. It's as if you spinned Waking into Nightmares - which is in fact entirely based on what you call minimalistic aggression - a few times, and never bothered to give this one a proper listen.