AT WAR - ORDERED TO KILL
NOISY MOTÖRHEAD SOUNDING THRASH.
At War debuted in 1986 with this LP titled Ordered to Kill. At War delivers a sound similar to what bands like Venom and Motörhead did a few years earlier. That driving and quite simpilistic type of speed metal that was quite common in the early to mid eighties. Speaking of Motörhead, there's a Motörhead cover called 'The Hammer' here, which remains true to the original and it's my favourite track from the album together with Ilsa (She Wolf of the SS) which is a salute to the highly violent and slightly pornographic movie with the same name.
At War's music is noisy and primitive and vocalist Paul Arnold's sounds a bit like poor mans Cronos (Venom). Everything here was kind of standard fare for thrash by 1986. Plenty of bands were firing on all cylinders and they were getting more technical by the day.while At War just treaded water and got left behind. Which was more or less the case for all bands that played speed metal at the time, it was simply a style on it's way out. While thrash was getting extremely popular by 1986.
There's also a sort of theme on this record and you can get some clues to what it is on the artwork. Yes, you guess it, it's a war theme.
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Maybe if the album was released 2-3 years earlier it would have made a bigger impact, now when the scene was in full bloom there were plenty of better alternatives, but somehow the album and the band hasn't been completely forgotten over the years. The band had a cool image and sound, but they weren't as good songwriters as Venom for example. At War fires blanks, or at least non-lethal bullets.
Rating:
| INFO |
Label: New Renaissance Year: 1986 Country: U.S.A. Duration: 30:18 Tracks: 8 Genre: Speed/Thrash Reviewer: Ruthless Rating: 3/5 | ||
| TRACKS | LINEUP | |
| Paul Arnold - Bass & Vocals Shawn Heisel - Guitars Dave Stone - Drums |
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