{"id":94442,"date":"2022-07-08T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T23:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=94442"},"modified":"2022-07-21T15:55:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T14:55:08","slug":"album-review-traitor-exiled-to-the-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-traitor-exiled-to-the-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"TRAITOR – Exiled To The Surface (2022) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

TRAITOR
Exiled To The Surface<\/strong><\/span>
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\nViolent Creek (2022)<\/span>
Rating: 6.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Exiled To The Surface<\/em> is the fourth full-length album from this German thrash attack, and the follow-up to 2018\u2019s Knee-Deep In The Dead<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In today\u2019s climate it\u2019s rather standard to hear this sort of stuff as the combo rattles its way through a bunch of snappy retorts that harkens back to the likes of classic Kreator, but without the conviction.<\/p>\n

Traitor, like a lot of New Wave Of Thrash Metal acts, are happy to dawdle along in their retro-worship without seeing or hearing just how generic it becomes. But then again, it\u2019s hard to knock these guys for keeping the Teutonic flag flying. Even so, I can pick my way through any of Traitor\u2019s releases and you know what to expect. Rarely does the band deviate from its chosen path, instead they rely on energy, vigour and those constant nods to the late 80s.<\/p>\n

Some fans who have been waiting for this slab to touch down may be disappointed to find that a few of the tracks have already appeared previously on 2019\u2019s Decade Of Revival<\/em> compilation, but if you like fast, snappy yet disposable thrash then there\u2019s much to savour here to accompany your beer-swigging exploits.<\/p>\n

Tracks such as \u2018Total Thrash\u2019 (featuring guest vocals from Sodom\u2019s Tom Angelripper and Abandoned\u2019s Holger Ziegler), \u2018Zordrak\u2019 and \u2018Space Seed\u2019 are thrash by numbers expressions bejewelled by the wild solos which make for an entertaining listen, but everything else is all too familiar. \u201966 Exeter Street\u2019 stands out with its menacing chug, but the atrocious cover of Wham!\u2019s \u2018Careless Whisper\u2019 just isn\u2019t funny, especially replacing the words \u201cdance\u201d with \u201cmosh\u201d! C\u2019mon guys, we\u2019re not all silly teenagers thinking thrash only started out 20 years ago.<\/p>\n

Exiled To The Surface<\/em> may maintain the cult following for the band but it does nothing to expand, let alone touch the parameters Traitor constructed during their formation well over a decade ago.<\/p>\n

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

TRAITORExiled To The Surface Violent Creek (2022)Rating: 6.5\/10 Exiled To The Surface is the fourth full-length album from this German thrash attack, and the follow-up to 2018\u2019s Knee-Deep In The Dead. In today\u2019s climate it\u2019s rather standard to hear this sort of stuff as the combo rattles its way through a bunch of snappy retorts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4896],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-traitor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94442","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=94442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94444,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94442\/revisions\/94444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}