SACRED REICH — The American Way (review)

SACRED REICH — The American Way album cover Album · 1990 · Thrash Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
bonnek
A spurt of adrenaline, straight-up in your face Thrash, lots of thrills no frills; or it should be the funky joke '31 Flavors' at the end?

I don't think Sacred Reich to be the most impressive band around and certainly not the most original but this album just delivers. Their preceding album 'Ignorance' was quite good and energetic but didn't leave a lasting impression in the songwriting department. The band made up for that on this album, which matches their aggression with good grooves and inspired thrash metal riffing.

It must have been a short flare of inspiration though, their next album 'Indepent' showed an alarming simplification of their style - later coined 'Groove Metal' - with songs that became too repetitive and obvious. If my memory serves me well, 'Heal' was even worse. Not this one though, a great old Thrash classic, not to be missed.
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Time Signature wrote:
more than 2 years ago
This album is one of my favorite albums :-D
UMUR wrote:
more than 2 years ago
"I´m Brokennnnnn"
bonnek wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Well I' ve never been into that Groove-Thrash thing, so I'm probably too biased towards the genre to be trusted on my statements about those particular albums :)


UMUR wrote:
more than 2 years ago
While I don´t agree with your views on neither Independent (love that one to pieces) nor Heal we definitely agree that The American Way is a classic thrash metal album and a great one too.

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