Hatriot
Dawn of the New Centurion

“From my cold dead hands”, everyone who has seen the movie Bowling for Columbine have seen and heard the quote that starts this album. The words are uttered by terrorist and horrifyingly poor actor Charlton Heston shortly after the school shootings in Columbine. Talk about guy with no respect for other people, free guns for sociopaths like him, for crazy people, for criminals, for mentally deranged people, for people without moral compass, for idiots and so on, are not a measure of freedom. Restricting guns gives people the freedom to go outside without the fear of being shot down but Heston and his NRA buddies won’t have it. One can only dream that he and his peers becomes shot down in another pointless shooting, maybe at an NRA meeting so that they can pry his gun (and others’) from his cold dead hands, I would love to read about a hundred dead NRA members in a shooting where the shooter was certifiable but still legally could buy a gun and ammunition.

Well, enough about that quote, american idiotic behaviour and values has always been annoying to me and I have because of the quote taken good care not to listen to what they sing about as they would be annihilated in writing if I heard gun propaganda in their music which one could suspect from that quote in the beginning. Anyway, this is Hatriot’s second album following last year’s debut. It has a better cover which isn’t that difficult considering the ugly cover on the first album. I didn’t like the last album so I had no higher hopes for this one.

The music is built around the old school thrash metal that singer Souza has been part of before forming this band. Maybe with some modern touches even though I have a hard time hearing anything new or exciting. It is well produced and well performed despite the fact that Souza is a poor singer. I have to say though that this album in all aspects is a definite step up from their previous album. But what were they thinking when they decided to have fifty minutes of music, that is too much as the album isn’t that varied and becomes very tiresome towards the end.

So, it is not impressive, it is good though. It is not fresh, it is not exciting but it will most likely keep their fans and the thrash metal people happy. All the songs are of equal quality and nothing stands out or grabs me as more exciting, it is a decent album all the way through. It will not go down in history and you will not need to take it out of my cold dead hands because I have already put the album away and stopped listening to it now. It is alright, no more and no less.

Sure I was debating between the three and the four for the rating of this album but eventually decided for the latter (with some hesitation) as it is too good to just be discarded. I think that if you like the thrash metal genre you will find this exciting enough, if you don’t there is no reason to develop a taste for it by listening to this album. Way better than american gun policies but not very exciting, decent album though.

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