ARTILLERY - BY INHERITANCE
THE GREATEST SCANDINAVIAN THRASH METAL ALBUM OF ALL TIME.
Artillery must in retrospect be considered the most important thrash metal band from Scandinavia. After landing a deal with Roadracer Records, Artillery released their third album By Inheritance in 1990. By Inheritance was the magnum opus of this bands career, there's no doubt about that if you ask me.
They just sounded better and more professional than ever before. Thanks to the mastermind of Flemming Rasmussen. Yes, THE Flemming Rasmussen that also produced Metallica's Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets a few years earlier.
The raw noisy underproduced sound of the bands two previous records were cleaned up and the band also had matured quite a bit as musicians. The Stützer brothers that handles the two guitars in the band is just on another level. They bring so much technical crunch and amazing melodies that your head will start to spin.
The vocalist Flemming Ronsdorf's weird nasal vocals reminds me a bit of Grave Digger's vocalist Chris Boltendahl but Flemming has a bigger range. He surely delivers on this album even if his wierd vocal style can take some time to get used to. But don't worry about that, the music itself is so good so even if you don't like his vocals, you'll still like the album.
The guys in Artillery should almost have been arrested for disbanding after this masterpiece. I can only imagine what the band could have done if they worked with Flemming Rasmussen once again and kept going, I think they could have been a household name in metal and the saviour that thrash needed in the nineties, but that's just speculation on my behalf.
The perhaps most known song from the album is Razamanaz. A rather unnecessary Nazareth cover. So if you're new to this album I'll suggest that you check out Khomaniac or well, the full album of course.
I love the almost egyptian melodies in the beginning of the Khomaniac. They also dare to go into ballad mode with Bombfood and Don't Believe, both songs are very melodic and amongst the best "thrash" ballads I've ever heard.
I think Artillery's By Inheritance is the best thrash metal album coming out of Scandinavia, without competition even, it's that good. It just stands tall over your Mezzrow's, your Agony's, your Invocator's. By Inheritance is a five out of five record and one of the best thrash metal albums of all time. So don't miss out on it!
Rating:
| INFO |
Label: Roadrunner Year: 1990 Country: Denmark Duration: 47:38 Tracks: 10 Genre: Thrash Reviewer: Ruthless Rating: 5/5 | ||
| TRACKS | LINEUP | |
| Flemming Rönsdorf - Vocals Michael Stützer - Guitars Morten Stützer - Guitars Peter Thorslund - Bass Carsten Nielsen - Drums |
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