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Great music, if your looking for good old fashioned '80s style thrash to leap around the house and head bang to. Over the years,Toxic Waltz has become a classic anthem for Exodus. Fabulous Disaster is great old school thrash, with Steve Souza screeching out some rather humorous one liners. This review is the original CD release. Great soloing and great gang vox to be ingested here. Cajun Hell has also become another one of my old favourites. The album has also recently been re-issued with new mastering and includes some extra live tracks. Some folk may be interested in checking that one out(listed separately on Amazon).
Exodus are an amazing band, every album they have released even the most recent ones are simply amazing and sound like nothing else out there. Long live Exodus \m/ kings of metal.
It's just constant blast beats over crappy vocals, it's nothing special at all. I listened to this "Fabulous Disaster" album on YouTube and I was disgusted.
I mentioned that I love great bands like new Metallica, new Megadeth, Staind, Linkin Park, Atreyu, etc. I was on a metal forum and made a topic asking people for music recommendations.
Some dude called me a "noob" and told me to check out this Exodus band for tr00 metal. Everyone was flaming me and told me to stop being brainwashed by MTV.
I laughed and told them that they were crazy because I have great taste in music. it was SO bad.
For great metal albums listen to "St Anger", "Risk" or "Break The Cycle".
There AC/DC cover, which closes the record, is somewhat more succesful as there vocalist kind of sounds like a Thrash version of Bon Scott, anyway. The standout however, is "The Toxic Waltz", a wonderfully tongue in cheek ode to mosh pits and there ilk, that features a verbal blitzkrieg of words and a terrific swing along riff that captures the mood. Exodus have progressed quite a bit from there brutal debut, the inconquerable, "Bonded by Blood" and seemed to have matured and retained a certain sense of humor into there third release.A decided step above in quality from there previous album, "Pleasures of the Flesh", this album features a much more focused Thrash ethic and feels more akin to what the band was all about.Several song rock with purpose from the classic speedster of a title track to the brutality of "Cajun Hell" and "Last Act of Defiance" to the disturbing and well written, "Like Father Like Son". The track is "Overdose".A pretty cool headbang in the end that will rock you for awhile, but not the perfect fun thrasher it could have been. One of the great metal songs and a personal favorite.However, not all is so fine on the record as the band goes into Anthrax territory with the inappropiate and mean spirited, "Verbal Razors" which does not fit the band at all and comes across as very forced. Same can be said of the phoned in cover of War's "Lowrider", which is pretty terrible. This band dosen't give up though, and still delivers a good record. After all, if you hit the floor you can always crawl.
This is probably my favorite Exodus album. I could do with out the two cover songs, and Cajun Hell is a bit too long but those are my only complaints. Songs like Open Season, Verbal Razors and the title track will leave your head spinning, the band is super tight on this album but the sound is just raw enough.
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