ATROCITY — Instigators (review)

ATROCITY — Instigators album cover Demo · 1988 · Crossover Thrash Buy this album from MMA partners
2.5/5 ·
UMUR
"Instigators" is the first demo recording by German music artist Atrocity. The demo was independently released in October 1988. Atrocity formed in 1985 using the Instigator monicker, but they changed their name to Atrocity shortly before releasing this demo.

Atrocity have played a lot of different music styles during their career, and in the early 90s they were known for playing a technical deathgrind/death metal style, but on this demo they play thrash metal/crossover thrash metal. It´s well performed but the songwriting is relatively generic and you won´t hear anything here that you haven´t heard before. By late 1988 this may even have been perceived as a little old fashioned, and Atrocity probably wisely chose to change their musical direction soon after this was out. The "Instigators" demo is probably just the culmination of the early Instigator years of the band´s career.

"Instigators" is a decently produced demo considering the genre and the time of release and upon conclusion it´s an overall decent quality crossover thrash metal demo, but again it´s nothing out of the ordinary for the genre so a 2.5 - 3 star (55%) rating is warranted.
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