Disaffection-Begin the revolution

Bombworks
2010

The gun/guitar hybrid on the cover had me wondering what exactly was going to be contained on this disc and it has also had me remembering Kane Roberts playing his crazy gun guitar during his short stint with Alice Cooper. Disaffection are fortunately better than their album cover. This a Brazilian retro-thrash act with Christian leaning lyrics. They obviously have a strong affection for old style thrash and wear those influences on their sleeves with the likes of Destruction, Kreator and Slayer shining through. It's not a full blown blazing style of thrash as they often mix some mid-paced crunchy moments between the thrash attacks. That actually works out for them and the vocals very along with the pace too. The songs are blistering at times and they have some heavy pounding moments as well so it's a fairly balanced mix. The arrangements is perhaps this band's greatest strength. I do have two minor complaints. The first is that the drum sound is a bit tin sounding at times. This is a production issue, but there were a few times where they go to rip loose and thr drums just were not as heavy in the tome as they needed to be. The other item is that even though the album has ten songs it came across as very short. It was like as soon as I was getting into them it was over. Overall it's one of the better retro-thrash albums I have heard in recent months.