Hirax - Barrage Of Noise

Hirax is a thrash metal band from Orange County, California. Formed in 1984, the band has played in Los Angeles and San Francisco with the other new thrash metal bands of the area such as Metallica, Exodus, and Slayer. This "Barrage Noise" EP is their 2001 release under Deepsix records contains 8 bloody raw thrash tracks and also the first release after they got reformated. I think the compositions inside the EP are alot more varied and ambitious than earlier, and the album sounds quite different from the band's original releases in the eighties. Since their popularity over the years has been maintained in large part due to the power violence scene's obsession with them, I fully expected HIRAX to try and make a power violence record. They didn't. They keep made a HIRAX record. Sure there are some classic HIRAX moments here but this is definitely a new piece of the HIRAX legacy. There are some slower and more melodic moments on the CD that took me a bit by surprise but after repeated listens I have grown to appreciate them as well. Maybe this is not the best if we compare it with previous Hirax's albums in the old days, but i'm still really sure that it's still Hirax thrashing all the way they go.

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