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│║ Release Information ║ │
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│║ Release Date.Feb-16-2012 Encoder......L3.97 -V2 --vbr-new ║ │
│║ Genre........Thrash Metal Graber.......EAC ║ │
│║ Year.........1988 Khz/Bitrate..44,1/ Br ║ │
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│║ Ripper.......The_Patriarch Songs........08 ║ │
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│║ Release Notes ║ │
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│║ Artist : Agony Rating : You Decide! ║ │
│║ Album : The First Defiance Label : Under One Flag ║ │
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│║ Description : ║ │
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│║ It was only a matter of time before fiery 'ol ║ │
│║ thrash would evolve into an advanced lifeform ║ │
│║ that didn't stray too far from its primordial ║ │
│║ rust, something for the thinker's musical union ║ │
│║ to sink bicuspids into. That meal came prepared ║ │
│║ somewhere around '87 even though Mustaine and ║ │
│║ the energizer bunnies in Watchtower had seen ║ │
│║ through the style's tangled mess about two years ║ │
│║ earlier, and instead of burdening it with a ║ │
│║ handle that already had a heated love/hate ║ │
│║ relationship with rock fans, someone came up ║ │
│║ with the pretentiously clinical caption of ║ │
│║ technical thrash. It stuck, bands like ║ │
│║ Testament, Forbidden, and a hundred others ║ │
│║ strove to climb above and beyond what Agent ║ │
│║ Steel, Razor and the German alliance had built ║ │
│║ with blood and grime, and thus a new breed finds ║ │
│║ its foothold. Some still called it progressive ║ │
│║ anyway. ║ │
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│║ Silence Studios does a capital job washing the ║ │
│║ muck from the score and bringing this sub- ║ │
│║ style's focal point into view: instrumentation. ║ │
│║ Like a lot of tech thrash, the orphan release ║ │
│║ from this Swedish five-piece has circumvented ║ │
│║ the bulwark of fuzz earlier thrash framed its ║ │
│║ sound around, being pretty scrubbed and sterile, ║ │
│║ something like what Metallica had just done and ║ │
│║ Xentrix will do in about a year. Unfortunately, ║ │
│║ down the drainpipe along with the dirt went a ║ │
│║ few layers of intensity and some of the style's ║ │
│║ primal spirit, and is a valid reason why bands ║ │
│║ treading this new ground of magnitude failed to ║ │
│║ thrill the crap out of me. ║ │
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│║ But even without a production with bristles, ║ │
│║ Agony have the ablity to scorch. ║ │
│║ Side openers "Storm of the Apocalypse" and ║ │
│║ "Night of the Emperor" are fraught with anxiety, ║ │
│║ the former shifting motion a bit more than the ║ │
│║ brawnier latter, meanwhile gas-powered album ║ │
│║ closer "Deadly Legacy" gloms the best of both, ║ │
│║ hitching a ride on a bullet train that pulls in ║ │
│║ chugging one minute, then corkscrews ║ │
│║ dramatically the next, and it's apparent why ║ │
│║ they reserved this for the kicker. Remaining ║ │
│║ songs like "Mass Manipulation" and "Shadow of ║ │
│║ Fear" aren't bad though, a little more ║ │
│║ characterless to accompany their less frothy ║ │
│║ visage, and catchy, stuck-in-head riffs ║ │
│║ apparently aren't growing on trees in the band's ║ │
│║ area. Solos are better than average while the ║ │
│║ vox is mill-runner ordinary, lightly gruff and a ║ │
│║ tad lower to squeeze onto the same stalled ║ │
│║ escalator with so many others. ║ │
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│║ Never mentioned like Phantom, Acrophet, and ║ │
│║ Powersurge, but worth a handful of listens. At ║ │
│║ the very least you could find one or two songs ║ │
│║ that may tickle your pickle. ║ │
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│║ Release Tracklist ║ │
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│ 01 - Storm of the Apocalypse [05:49] │
│ 02 - The First Defiance [04:44] │
│ 03 - Execution of Mankind [07:37] │
│ 04 - Mass Manipulation [04:50] │
│ 05 - Night of the Emperor [05:27] │
│ 06 - Shadow of Fear [05:26] │
│ 07 - Madness Reigns [05:28] │
│ 08 - Deadly Legacy [05:29] │
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│ Total Length : [44:50 minn │
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│ ║ Greetings To: ║ │
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│ Too all people who contributes to make this │
│ archive of good music in a exceptional conditions │
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