{"id":102535,"date":"2024-02-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=102535"},"modified":"2024-03-06T11:36:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T11:36:54","slug":"album-review-mercaptan-social-injustice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-mercaptan-social-injustice\/","title":{"rendered":"MERCAPTAN – Social Injustice (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

MERCAPTAN
Social Injustice<\/strong><\/span>
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\nMercaptan Recordings (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 6.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Being primarily the creation of Kovacs Zoltan, Mercaptan is a four-year-old band from Romania that is doing what so many bands did between 1983 and 1992, and that\u2019s rip off Metallica. Believe me, if you\u2019ve been fed up with Metallica pretending to be thrash for a few years then you might want to snap up what sounds like rough, unreleased mixes of …And Justice For All<\/em><\/a> (1988).<\/p>\n

From the James Hetfield-like vocals to the crunchy layers this is Metallica and it\u2019s quite entertaining. The vocals are too high in the mix so those Hetfield yaps sound frazzled by the mic, but when \u2018The Beginning Of My End\u2019 kicks things off you can\u2019t help but laugh at the mimicry. Having said that, this is still catchy thrash metal that revels in a mid-tempo seriousness. In fact, it\u2019s quite rare for Mercaptan\u2019s sophomore outing to go beyond the hefty trudging which at times, just like Metallica\u2019s creations, become a bit of a bore. \u2018Solitary Exasperation\u2019, especially, and the traipsing \u2018Sorrow Land\u2019 among many others plod and chug effectively, but it\u2019s not until closer \u2018Perfidy\u2019 that any sort of pace is applied.<\/p>\n

My guess is that Kovacs got into Metallica just as I started to go off them and by the time the \u201cblack\u201d album hit he was no doubt nodding along to the life-changing plods of \u2018Enter Sandman\u2019. This is extremely derivative metal, but it\u2019s nothing UK act Evile hasn\u2019t done and somehow they got popular! Of the nine tracks the one I became fond of most was \u20184 = 5\u2019, a rather raw, snarling mid-tempo chugger that actually steps away from the Metallica worship. Compelling in its aping, Social Injustice<\/em> should, in theory, get a lower rating\u2026 but I quite like it.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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