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Reality is a Lie

This seems to be a German band who doesn’t like the direction the thrash metal genre has taken an wants to hit the reset button and return to 1984. This album called Reality is a Lie is the band’s third album and it is of course their best album, inspired by the greats of the genre but with their own flavour – apparently some nice acoustic guitar picking and some progressive touches if I am to believe what the label says. So is there any truth to what the label say or is it just talk from another reality?

Well, I don’t think they sound particularly fresh or has any particularly individual touches, it sounds kind of like something that was recorded in 1984. It could just as well have been an album recorded in 1984, refused by a label and then left forgotten until someone found it and decided that the world hasn’t had enough albums that sounds just like this despite the fact that millions of them exist already. Some of the stuff the label says exist in this album, but it does also exist in albums by Metallica, Megadeth, Kreator, Sodom, Destruction, Death Angel, Exodus, Overkill and millions more albums that sounds more or less exactly the same as this one. I would describe this as a very typical eighties thrash album and anyone not knowing it was recorded just the other day would be extremely surprised to know that it wasn’t recorded in the first half of the eighties – it even has an authentic dated sound.

Over an hour of thrash metal nostalgia, can it be better? Well, it depends on if your reality is a lie or not, if it is I am certain it is fantastic. Nostalgia lovers will enjoy this, but those who share reality with me will find it rather boring. Not that the album is bad or anything but the thing is that why should I get another album that sounds similar to several albums I already own? I cannot see any reason for that, it isn’t a creatively interesting album, you just cannot reset time back to the past just because you want to. Reality is that this album offers nothing that we haven’t already heard before, and when you copy what others have done you need to be amazing at what you do and these guys are ordinary at what they do – that means that they will drown in the flood of albums being released in this genre every day.

Kind of a pointless album, thrash fans will most likely find it appealing while I think the title is the only thing I really like about the album. It is the most true thing about it, reality is dependent on who sees it and my reality probably differs a lot from yours but in that reality this is an album well worth overlooking, although in some alternate (and untrue) realities people claim that it is a great album.

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