{"id":3342,"date":"1988-06-01T00:00:25","date_gmt":"1988-06-01T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=3342"},"modified":"2012-06-10T00:53:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T00:53:26","slug":"album-review-anacrusis-suffering-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-anacrusis-suffering-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"ANACRUSIS – Suffering Hour | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANACRUSIS
Suffering Hour<\/strong><\/span>
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\nAxis (1988)<\/span>
Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Barely a year after Bernard Doe\u2019s review of Anacrusis\u2019 Annihilation Complete<\/em><\/a> five-song demo, the St. Louis, Missouri-based boys are back, and with a full-length album no less.<\/p>\n

When Bernard referred to Anacrusis as a mixture of Metal Church, Trouble, Slayer<\/a> and Metallica, he hit it right on the nose. Although the band do manage to inject a flavour of their own into the proceedings, most of the material present on Suffering Hour<\/em> is very much along the lines of those aforementioned outfits, even down to guitarist Kenn Nardi\u2019s occasionally Dave Wayne-like (but higher pitched) vocals.<\/p>\n

But even though Anacrusis don\u2019t win too many points for originality, they should be highly commended for their ability (not to mention, guts) to play more than just one specific style of heavy metal, from the high-speed, straightforward thrash on tracks like \u2018Frigid Bitch\u2019 and \u2018R.O.T.\u2019 to the less frantic and more melodic (but still very heavy) power metal on songs like \u2018A World To Gain\u2019 and \u2018Fighting Evil\u2019.<\/p>\n

I myself tend to think that the more controlled, more melodic material suits the Anacrusis sound better and comes across as more natural-sounding than the high-speed thrash stuff, but there\u2019s no denying that the band do both styles well, and for that they deserve a lot of credit.<\/p>\n

Production-wise, it should be said that Suffering Hour<\/em> suffers quite a bit (pun intended), and I find Kenn Nardi\u2019s vocals to be a little annoying at times (especially when he\u2019s singing at a very high pitch), but overall this is a strong debut from a band that has the potential to turn into something really great over the next couple of years. Thumbs-up!<\/p>\n

Borivoj Krgin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Review taken from Metal Forces, Issue 28 (1988)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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