Thrash metal has always been one of my favorite genres, the riffs, the speed, the intensity of the shows, it's really better than every show that i've ever been to, but too bad this "golden age" of the thrash scene was gone by the 90's for some more technical, guttural and brutal music, people who hate thrash says: "it's boring and repeats itself" but well you can say the same about any Xcore band that incorporates "grooves" and breakdown, and that's how i relate this album to the Xcore and groove metal listeners.
Vio-Lence was a band from the Bay Area thrash scene (Exodus, Heathen, Testament), with Sean Killian on vocals, Rob Flynn and Phil Demmel on guitar duty (of machine head fame), Deen Dell on the bass, and Perry Strickland on the drum set, these guys were known of haveing underground succsses, and having one of the best shows in town, although the music was not the most original, Vio-Lence had kept it through its existence.
Their debut album Eternal Nightmare represents the wave of bands who were copying their friends and predecessors (as the bands mentioned above), bands like Vio-Lence never did something unique or new, they only knew to do it better than others.
the vocals are really debateable, many people that liked the paul baloff esque vocals will say Sean Killian sounds like a girl screaming, but in my opinion he's a great vocalist because he can get into ranges most people can't, yeah he sounds like a 12 year old boy, but somehow it fits the music so you can relate into his childish screams.
i can't really say anything about the guitars except for pure riffage, in my opinion Vio-Lence is the only positive thing Robb Flynn has ever contributed to music, much more than his beloved band Machine Head, the bass is not anything special on it, just copies the guitars with some parts of having some more flexibility but nothing more, the drums are good and can keep track of the speed of the music.
We can sum this album as: nothing special, not making nothing new in the 80's thrash scene, but their stuff is so good so you can mark it in the thrash classics as "Bonded By Blood", "The Legacy" and "Breaking The Silence".
Vio-Lence was a band from the Bay Area thrash scene (Exodus, Heathen, Testament), with Sean Killian on vocals, Rob Flynn and Phil Demmel on guitar duty (of machine head fame), Deen Dell on the bass, and Perry Strickland on the drum set, these guys were known of haveing underground succsses, and having one of the best shows in town, although the music was not the most original, Vio-Lence had kept it through its existence.
Their debut album Eternal Nightmare represents the wave of bands who were copying their friends and predecessors (as the bands mentioned above), bands like Vio-Lence never did something unique or new, they only knew to do it better than others.
the vocals are really debateable, many people that liked the paul baloff esque vocals will say Sean Killian sounds like a girl screaming, but in my opinion he's a great vocalist because he can get into ranges most people can't, yeah he sounds like a 12 year old boy, but somehow it fits the music so you can relate into his childish screams.
i can't really say anything about the guitars except for pure riffage, in my opinion Vio-Lence is the only positive thing Robb Flynn has ever contributed to music, much more than his beloved band Machine Head, the bass is not anything special on it, just copies the guitars with some parts of having some more flexibility but nothing more, the drums are good and can keep track of the speed of the music.
We can sum this album as: nothing special, not making nothing new in the 80's thrash scene, but their stuff is so good so you can mark it in the thrash classics as "Bonded By Blood", "The Legacy" and "Breaking The Silence".
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