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Review: Manic Abraxas - Skinformation
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Skinformation

Label: Independent
Year released: 2024
Duration: 36:30
Tracks: 8
Genre: Heavy/Thrash

Rating:
4/5


Review online: August 17, 2024
Reviewed by: Sargon the Terrible
Review

I have seen people have a hard time categorizing this band—maybe their earlier albums sound different—as I have seen them listed as everything from Thrash to Stoner Doom. With that cover art and logo, I was certainly expecting a Thrash album, but this is a band who are mixing in a lot of sounds from the very earliest days of extreme metal, back before everything had a subgenre. I hear a lot of early proto-Thrash like Sodom or Kreator, but I would say the very strongest influence is old Celtic Frost, especially when it comes to the vocals, which are a dead ringer for Tom Warrior, even doing that "UGH" thing after the verse lines. This is not as down and dirty as Hellhammer or Morbid Tales, and the riffs are not on the same level, but this album is a lot of fun. It has a nicely primitive recording job and crunches out songs that sound like they were written in 1984. Skinformation has a raw, DIY sound and attitude that is the kind of thing you can't fake.

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