Sunday 1 March 2009

Powermad - Absolute Power (1989)


This Minnesota four-piece did little to separate themselves from the huge crowd of thrashers swamping the scene in the '80s, but they can claim some fame, after appearing on the soundtrack to David Lynch's masterpiece, 'Wild At Heart'. Musically however it's reasonably bland thrash that got left behind. Ten tracks of standard chugging, screeching and mostly melodic Bay Area inspired drudgery with a pale vocal delivery courtesy of Joel DuBay, who does little to extract Powermad from bring a watered down Exodus et al. Check at the UK's Slammer for similar thrashing, although they did it far better.


5/10

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