{"id":11447,"date":"2013-03-12T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=11447"},"modified":"2013-06-01T14:53:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T14:53:57","slug":"album-review-panikk-unbearable-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-panikk-unbearable-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"PANIKK – Unbearable Conditions (2013) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

PANIKK
Unbearable Conditions<\/strong><\/span>
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\nMetal Tank (2013)<\/span>
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Who\u2019d have thought it, Slovenia is now giving birth to formulaic thrash bands clearly influenced by the 80s scene. Oh well, I guess it\u2019s the in thing to make a living by trawling through the best, or worst, of 80s thrash and stealing just about every ingredient. Of course, aping Anthrax, Death Angel, Exodus, Nuclear Assault et al, doesn\u2019t necessarily mean you\u2019re going to be as good, but, shock horror, Panikk are one of the better new thrash acts I\u2019ve heard.<\/p>\n

Sure, there\u2019s nothing here that separates them from the burgeoning pack \u2013 at every turn I\u2019m hearing Death Angel and Anthrax, particularly in the vocal attack of Ga\u0161per Flere, who is also responsible alongside Nejc Nardin, for those crunchy Bay Area riffs which sound as if they\u2019ve been plucked straight from those early Exodus albums \u2013 but I do like the energy of it all, although too much of this sort of new thrash will have me reaching for the sick bowl.<\/p>\n

Album opener \u2018Panic Attack\u2019 has touches of Vio-lence, Death Angel and Exodus, complete with those chanted lines and Grega Ko\u0161merl\u2019s drums seem to be designed to only ape those 80s style structures. \u2018Messiah Of Decay\u2019 is equally unremarkable, as is \u2018The Wave Of Death\u2019 and \u2018Playground Of Visions\u2019 which give a nod (not sure whether it\u2019s intentional though!) to Municipal Waste who were one of the bands at the forefront of such a thrash resurgence, but thankfully Panikk keep things serious, rarely traipsing into humorous territory.<\/p>\n

And this I believe is where Panikk have one over some of the more irritating bands; their ability to thrash hard without resorting to cartoon humour. In the 80s a lot of thrash metal bands were more than happy to inject high levels of humour which seemed to hinder them rather than aid them. But Panikk keep things simple in regards to their structures, combining aggression with melodic leads, with the band shining on instrumental \u2018Away From Reality\u2019 and even more so on acoustic passage \u2018Revelation Of Truth\u2019.<\/p>\n

Panikk will not blow you away, in fact some of you may find American thrash from Slovenia rather irritating, but to be honest I\u2019ve heard far worse. Although there is nothing original about these guys, the serious nature of it all suggests a band that knows their limits, and within that framework are still happy to rock out as hard as they can.<\/p>\n

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

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