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░ ██ ██ Artist: Alkoholizer ██ ██
▓ █░░ ■█ Album: Free Beer.. Surf's Up!!! █■ ░░█
■ █▓▀ █ Year: 2014 █ ▀▓█ ░
█ ▓ Rel. Date: 2015-03-13 ▓ █
▒ ▒ Genre: Thrash Metal ▒ ▒
█▄ ░ Label: Punishment 18 Records ░ ▄█
░ █▄ ░ Source: CD ░ ▄█
░ █▓ Type: Album ▓█ ░
▓ █ Quality: VBR, 44.1kHz, Joint Stereo █ ░ ▓
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█ So... Alkoholizer from Italy is back. They were █
█ pretty prominent in the revival with the Drunk or █
█ Dead... album in 2009 which was nothing special, █
█ but a pretty decent revival album that could fit █
█ into any party. After that album the band kind of █
█ disappeared but in 2013 they released an EP to █
█ state that the Sardinian boars had returned and █
█ now we've been offered a new studio album. █
█ It has been five years since the last studio album █
█ and since then, and things have changed within the █
█ Italian band. Vocalist Alessandro and drummer █
█ Gabriele who both played on Drunk or Dead... have █
█ departed. A new drummer has been brought in and █
█ bassist Fabrizio is now handling the vocals. █
█ Besides that the band also recruited a second █
█ guitarist, which results in a couple of solo vs. █
█ solo situations but that is about it. It seems █
█ pretty clear to me that Alkoholizer didn't want to █
█ change anything from their last record as █
█ Fabrizio's vocals is just a replica of █
█ Alessandro's. And even though I liked the old █
█ vocals better, they were still not mindblowing or █
█ anything. Just a kind of Tom Araya light... So █
█ what you're left with in the end is that █
█ Alkoholizer doesn't seem to have moved an inch. █
█ In addition to that, Free Beer....Surf's Up!!! █
█ could easily have been released as a quick follow █
█ up in 2011 or so. It follows the exact same recipe █
█ as the previous album but it's not quite as good. █
█ In spite of the better production on this album, █
█ it lacks the real party thrashers that Drunk or █
█ Dead... contained. The least they could've done █
█ with an album title and cover like this, was to █
█ put a Sacred Reich cover on the damn playlist... █
█ but no. Negativity aside, of course there's good █
█ songs to be found and a fair amount of interesting █
█ thrash riffs in songs like Faceless, System █
█ Aberration and Breathalize and Destroy!! which █
█ also ends up being my favourites from this record. █
█ So what's left of it in the end? There's a couple █
█ tracks here and there that you could add to your █
█ party playlist, but even for that I would still go █
█ back to the previous album. The album feel █
█ redundant to me when the only thing there's better █
█ than the previous album is the production and both █
█ songs and vocals where better on the last album as █
█ well. So if you're okay with getting more of the █
█ same then you'd like this album, if not, then █
█ there's more interesting releases to get. Not █
█ quite the comeback I had hoped for from the █
█ Sardinian boars. █
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░ 1. The HogMosh - Nozno Strikes Back!!! 4:56 ░
░ 2. Faceless 3:16 ░
░ 3. Surfin' Beer 3:44 ░
░ 4. Breathalize and Destroy!! 4:28 ░
░ 5. System Aberration 5:05 ░
░ 6. Never Come Back Sober... 3:11 ░
░ 7. Antisocial Trap 4:25 ░
░ 8. Skating Madness 4:00 ░
░ 9. Mind Pollution 3:46 ░
░ 10. Stop Hit off the Ghetto - Join the Boar 4:47 ░
░ Party!!! ░
░ 41:38 ░
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