{"id":74772,"date":"2018-09-14T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=74772"},"modified":"2018-12-13T17:43:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T17:43:07","slug":"ep-review-radux-disaster-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-radux-disaster-imminent\/","title":{"rendered":"RADUX – Disaster Imminent EP (2018) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

RADUX
Disaster Imminent EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSvart (2018)<\/span>
Rating: 5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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With a cover that reminds me of Toxik\u2019s 1989 classic album Think Thi<\/em>s comes Disaster Imminent<\/em>, the debut four-track EP from youthful thrash combo Radux \u2013 whose band name sounds like a shower gel!<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll get no surprises from this bunch from Finland, especially if you were on board with previous outings in the form of the Radiation Kills<\/em> (2015) and Last Ones To Survive<\/em> (2016) demos. Imagine then a spilled toxic crate containing Nuclear Assault, Anthrax and mid 80s Teutonic blazing, and that\u2019s what Disaster Imminent<\/em> spits out.<\/p>\n

Vocally, bassist Juho Vaarala does bring a slightly annoying high-levelled yap straight out of the John Connelly (Nuclear Assault) department, but there\u2019s always been a penchant for this sort of hyper thrash even if we\u2019re dealing with a band so intent on aping a style they very likely never experienced first time round.<\/p>\n

Time then to get whipped up into a frenzy by the joys of \u2018Fallout\u2019, \u2018Irradiated Death\u2019, \u2018Ashes Of This World\u2019 and \u2018Think For Yourself\u2019; titles which could easily have appeared on albums by the Nukes or even Toxik. But although this EP lacks the technical prowess there\u2019s still some nice axe work courtesy of Markus Kyr\u00f6l\u00e4 and Joacim Osenius, while the frantic cereal box banging of Leo M\u00e4kinen also brought a wry smile to my stony face as I sifted through the familiar, albeit exuberant thrashy workouts of this na\u00efve bunch of lunatics.<\/p>\n

What is clear is that the band has been brought up on an unhealthy diet of 80s thrash, and this is a style that literally oozes from their pores \u2013 just check out the speed and ferocity of the snappier \u2018Fallout\u2019 and \u2018Think For Yourself\u2019, which sandwich the two longer tracks \u2018Irradiated Death\u2019 and \u2018Ashes Of This World\u2019.<\/p>\n

For intensity, \u2018Fallout\u2019 is the stand-out track, even if it\u2019s a straight up \u201chomage\u201d to Nuclear Assault\u2019s \u2018After The Holocaust\u2019. But while it\u2019s an ideal way to kick off the EP, the rest of the composition feels a tad weaker, although the guitar work on \u2018Ashes Of This World\u2019 is admirable.<\/p>\n

However, for me the novelty of the mimicry quickly begins to wear off; Radux rather typical of so many kiddy thrash acts doing the rounds who are clearly unable to find an identity of their own. Yeah, I fully understand what it is to worship the 80s \u2013 damn, I was part of that scene \u2013 but to hear such inferior imitations tends to leave me seething at the cheek of it all. Here\u2019s hoping then that after the initial buzz and when the dust settles that the band realises that they\u2019ll need more than obvious homage to see them through, otherwise it\u2019s game over.<\/p>\n

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

RADUXDisaster Imminent EP Svart (2018)Rating: 5\/10 With a cover that reminds me of Toxik\u2019s 1989 classic album Think This comes Disaster Imminent, the debut four-track EP from youthful thrash combo Radux \u2013 whose band name sounds like a shower gel! You\u2019ll get no surprises from this bunch from Finland, especially if you were on board […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-radux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74773,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74772\/revisions\/74773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}