Begin The Revolution

Disaffection

For years Christian Metal has been providing hits that were more associated to Hard Rock, […]
November 30, 2010
Disaffection - Begin The Revolution album cover

For years Christian Metal has been providing hits that were more associated to Hard Rock, Heavy or Glam Metal . Names such as STRYPER ,MASS, HOLY SOLDIER and countless of others that scoured the 80's scene filled it with the word of Christ. In the case of Thrash, only a few bands fit to the Christian description, maybe the duo that I can think of are the American DELIVERANCE or SEVENTH ANGEL from the UK. In my bill, the young Thrashers of DISAFFECTION, based in Brazil, are the South American answer to those two mentioned bands and an additional answer to other non-Christian affiliated Thrash bands.

In general, this young group, while being a sort of combo between the once classic SLAYER and the energetic mosh-piting of EXODUS (still being more SLAYER-esque), didn't make any progress in their music and that is why its very similar in pattern. Moreover, the chosen sound by the band is almost identical to SLAYER's 80's sound, yet, a little bit raw than compressed. Even though I found their sound very addictive, and really how can you not love the old SLAYER sound of the 80's, I was a little bit disappointed that DISAFFECTION didn't even try to be more than SLAYER fans or Thrash Metal fans in general. These guys have a talent to put out some cool stuff into the wild. I say that if you are a fan and you want to show it through compositions that is fine, however, in some point the fan will probably get tired of it or potential fans of the band will get tired of them. I say otherwise, be fan but try to develop yourself in order to keep your life's work alive for many years to come.

With my suggestions, I still liked what DISAFFECTION did on their debut album, "Begin The Revolution" . Mixing the subjects that ignite Thrash as social stuff, religion (yet here its pro religion) or plain warmongering politics along with the suitable riffs of rage and destruction, this is the bread and butter for every thrasher worldwide. Its not just the riffages, if those are molded right to a certain path as it was done in "Begin The Revolution", its gonna be great. Between fighting and killing of "Metal Kombat" (This is the band's "War Ensamble"), the cool melodies of"The Mortuary Man", high speed religious chaser of "Mystery Of God" and the dread of brain damage of "Cerebral Nightmare", DISAFFECTION will supply the hunger for 80's Thrash while try to ignore the trends that attempt to put Metal into submission.

Maybe those guys have something against development or trying to exploit what they have to give to the Metal scene, yet, you can't count them out as a nice Thrash feature. Check out "Begin The Revolution" .

7 / 10

Good

"Begin The Revolution" Track-listing:
  1. Metal Kombat
  2. Which One's The Truth
  3. Blind Man
  4. Stupid Ideas
  5. Mystery Of God
  6. The Mortuary Man
  7. Disaffection
  8. Cerebral Nightmare
  9. I Wanna See The Chaos
  10. The End Of Beginning
Disaffection Lineup:

Cleiton Magno - Vocals
Paul Moraes - Guitar
Helô Silva - Bass
Daniel Neves - Guitar
Françuar Silva - Drums

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