{"id":3526,"date":"1988-06-01T00:00:10","date_gmt":"1988-06-01T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=3526"},"modified":"2013-06-01T13:16:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T13:16:13","slug":"album-review-nuclear-assault-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-nuclear-assault-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"NUCLEAR ASSAULT – Survive (1988) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

NUCLEAR ASSAULT
Survive<\/strong><\/span>
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\nUnder One Flag (1988)<\/span>
Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Well, things have certainly been happening at Assault-ville. Dan Lilker and co. have really worked their proverbial butts off and here\u2019s the result; a finely crafted excellent album, that shows the band enlarging their sound beyond the first few tentative progressive steps the band took on The Plague<\/em> mini-LP last year.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s two quickies, \u2018Get Another Quarter\u2019 and the Electro Hippies-style \u2018PSA\u2019 which don\u2019t quite live up to the likes of \u2018Hang The Pope\u2019, but the rest of the album has variety and class stamped all over it. John Connelly\u2019s still there stretching the larynx, but unfortunately it\u2019s still not too clear. But the album, musically, is excellent, being a mixture of the tried and tested, \u2019Equal Rights\u2019, and a totally new direction, \u2018Fight To Be Free\u2019 and \u2018Wired\u2019. The band also cover, and it\u2019s an unusual choice, \u2018Good Times, Bad Times\u2019 by Led Zeppelin<\/a> (?!), but it works very well.<\/p>\n

Nuclear Assault\u2019s material often tends to take a while to grow on me, but this\u2019ll be one I\u2019ll certainly not put down in a hurry. And while I\u2019m at it, I should like to apologise to the guys for grouping two tracks, \u2018Survive\u2019 and \u2018The Great Depression\u2019 into one on my Leeds review when only \u2018Survive\u2019 was being played. Can\u2019t be right all the time!<\/p>\n

Mike Exley<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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