SACRED REICH — The American Way (review)

SACRED REICH — The American Way album cover Album · 1990 · Thrash Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
Kingcrimsonprog
Sacred Reich are a brilliant thrash metal band from Phoenix, Arizona. They play groove centered breakdowns mixed with chunky speed metal segments and have an awesome singer called Phil Rind, who belongs more to the Phil Anselmo School of singing than to the Death Metal or Iron Maiden styles that were common among many non-Bay Area Thrash bands. This album, 'The American Way,' is a bona fide metal classic, containing many of the bands greatest songs, for example 'Who's to Blame,' and the famous Title Track (which you may remember from the early 90's Brendan Frasier Cave man Movie 'California Man.') The American Way is possibly Sacred Reich's greatest album, capitalizing on the success of their signature tune 'Surf Nicaragua,' the band further mix Hardcore Punk, Groove Metal with their classic thrash sound to create the ultimate Sacred Reich album, still classic thrash, but with enough variety to make every song distinct, memorable and catchy. This album contains everything you want from a metal album, complex drumming, speedy riffs, groovy breakdowns, flashy guitar solos and interesting lyrics. The lyrics are Socially conscious like many of their peers at the time, but less ham fisted than some of the worse thrash lyricists of the time. Topics include backwards messages, politics and metal elitism. The production is punchy and chunky, with a clarity between the instruments and is generally one of the better produced albums of the era. This remastered edition comes in a beautiful digipak, and contains raw demos of 6 of the album's songs along with the music video for 'The American Way.' This is a highly recommended album to any fan of thrash metal. If you like Nuclear Assault or Anthrax in particular you're going to love 'The American Way.
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