{"id":22218,"date":"2014-09-26T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T00:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=22218"},"modified":"2019-10-02T16:25:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T16:25:39","slug":"album-review-the-prophecy-23-untrue-like-a-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-the-prophecy-23-untrue-like-a-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"THE PROPHECY\u00b2\u00b3 – Untrue Like A Boss (2014) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE PROPHECY\u00b2\u00b3
Untrue Like A Boss<\/strong><\/span>
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\nMassacre (2014)<\/span>
Rating: 5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Clearly washed ashore through the foam of the charging revival thrash metal trend, German moshers The Prophecy\u00b2\u00b3 \u2013 in spite of their dodgy moniker \u2013 don\u2019t make for an all too bad listen if you like basic thrash metal riddled with humour and the variety of a double-barrelled vocal attack. <\/p>\n

Having said that, this quintet \u2013 which formed back in 2001 \u2013 will no doubt have a limited shelf life, but if one consumes enough beer and sees these guys at enough obscure festivals then I\u2019m sure there\u2019ll always be room for this type of middle of the road metal. <\/p>\n

So, with its shocking title, Untrue Like A Boss<\/em> is clearly the result of this bunch of goons watching too many silly movies, playing enough video games to send you into spasm and indulging in child-like wrestling until the sofa breaks. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s actually rather irritating if truth be told, the outfit given extra vocal menace through the addition back in 2012 of Philipp Heckel. The band now sprints along in fun-packed frenzy with a deeper, guttural growl matched with a more generic thrashy rasp and spit, resulting in some rather sickly pop-tinged melodies such as \u2018Pit Laserbeam\u2019 which sounds like the product of too many college youths getting high on sugary sweets and listening to too much pop-punk.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all executed in fine jest though, even if tracks such as \u2018Party Like It\u2019s \u201984\u2019 seem utterly insincere; the band clearly not old enough to have been around then but hopefully appreciative of the music that came from then. However, as is the case with so much of this stuff it soon wears thin and the likes of opener \u2018The Greatest Wrestling Fan\u2019 seem desperate in their aim to marry a crossover groove with comedy. I just wish these acts would concentrate on their musicianship, because they are clearly decent musicians who would probably benefit more from looking at the more serious side of this wonderful genre of music. <\/p>\n

With so many bands getting the bug for comedy-laced thrash metal, I can only see one outcome for a majority of the acts contained within the genre and that\u2019s a perpetual demise. I\u2019ll give The Prophecy\u00b2\u00b3 some credit though, because this is their fourth album so there must be an audience for this type of stuff. Even so, with \u2018Video Games Ain\u2019t No Shame\u2019, \u2018Home Is Where You Shred\u2019, \u2018Action Metal\u2019 and \u2018Tape Trading Like A Boss\u2019 I can only cringe at the comedy and find myself running back to the originators of this sort of metal \u2013 bands such as Acid Reign and Re-Animator who put British thrash on the map, only to be cruelly overlooked. I really see no reason as to why I should sit through any more of this contemporary yet desperately retro thrash metal, because if I do then I may well end up with a frazzled brain; this is as vomit-inducing and as mind-numbing as sitting for several hours in front of a games console.<\/p>\n

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

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