MORBID SAINT — Spectrum of Death (review)

MORBID SAINT — Spectrum of Death album cover Album · 1988 · Thrash Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Warthur
Thrash metal seemed to hit an apex of aggression in the mid-1980s, after which many groups seemed to shift off in different divergent directions. Some went more commercial, some went more technical or complex, but very few seemed to try and make thrash metal even more aggressive than it had been on Kreator's Pleasure to Kill or Slayer's Reign In Blood; the general feeling seemed to be that if you wanted to get more extreme than that, you really should just bite the bullet and go full death metal.

Morbid Saint seem to have decided with Spectrum of Death to try and put the lie to that and see if they can take thrash metal even further, and by and large they succeed. The production mix is sometimes not brilliant, and there are points where the "crank it all up to 11!" approach gets a bit old, but it broadly succeeds in staking out a claim for the continued relevance of a more vicious, malevolent take on thrash.
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