This album immediately provoked controversy when the cover showed the Pope being led to his own death, and if that wasn't enough to make the seas boil, these Louisiana nut-cases produced a level of thrash that just seethed burning aggression. Exhorder ground out despicably heavy riffs, comparisons were even drew with Pantera but Exhorder's hard-as-nails approach was more spiteful, more angst-ridden and even heavier, not that I've ever been a fan of Pantera. This is brutal stuff without entering death metal territory, and it will leave you bruised after the forty or so minutes of metallic cacophony. Tragically, the band produced only one more record, the equally vicious 'The Law' but haven't been heard of since. Rumours of a reunion may be on the cards, but nothing destroys like records from back in the day, and this record should belong in every metal fan's collection because it's seriously big, extremely hard, and more aggressive than most who attempt a similar game. 'Death In Vain', 'Desecrator' and 'Anal Lust',...it's nasty stuff with riffs that kill.
7.5/10
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