The intro a bit destabilizing "Black 13", very electro, is just there to fool the enemy. Because once past the twenty-five minutes of questions it raises, if one does ask more of the masses, questions: Exodus is back in the 80's! Riff saw in the great tradition, fast rhythmic millimeter (Tom Hunting, historic third member of the group in this version 2014, still kills a lot of work on drums) and of course, singing de Souza, unmistakable and it's been great pleasure to hear again as it has lost none of his aggressive tone and his banter. It is simply transported twenty-five years back.
The title track pushes the nail squarely. Much faster pace again, words flow at great speed and refrain repeated by the whole group (the famous "gang vocals" which is also end up on "Collateral Damage", "Body Harvest" and "Honor Killings") . If you still do not like seeing you at the end of the 80 tuned piece of this is that you have not experienced this time! Note also the passage in this way the small wink to the first album, "Bonded By Blood". Wink becomes evident from reading the lyrics because the ends with these words: "Tonight Were gonna rage and make Paul Baloff proud". Anyway, it smells the future live classic, this title.
Note also that the group returns to shorter titles, although punchy, it does not exceed four minutes and two pieces of the album remain below the five minutes. We remember that the "Exhibit" we had to piece the extension. Exodus still keep its taste for fairly long pieces (however all less than seven minutes) that allow it to develop the instrumental parts at will ("Numb", "Body Harvest", "My Last Nerve", "BTK", " Food For The Worms ").
You wash understood, everything is done so that lon feels back in the heyday of Thrash. The next two songs, "Collateral Damage" and "Salt The Wound", do not change the situation. Breaking activity of necks in order! We find the legendary group solos and rhythmic exchange level, we revel in this knitting two guitars, Gary Holt and Lee Altus complementing perfectly. Note that this is a third guitarist who is the honor of the first solo Salt The Wound, it being played by Kirk Hammett (the first application of which group it is ...). Again, we note the nod to the past since Kirk began as guitarist in Exodus before being recruited to go replace Dave Mustaine in Metallica.
Yet if Exodus revives the past with this album, it did not fall either in self-plagiarism or easy nostalgia. Each piece skilfully marries past and present (the wild cries on the end of "BTK", "My Last Nerve" with its melodic guitar on the chorus, "Numb" and hypnotic rhythm) and brings his stone to the edifice. One could also mention "Body Harvest" which sounds a little less old-Exodus musically, probably because he was composed by Lee Altus and not by Gary Holt. However, as soon as Souza raises his voice above it completely into the mold.
One slogan to summarize the album: THRASH!
Finally, sound either does not outdated at all, the bass Jack Gibson eg being clearly audible (which was not really the case on the group's productions in the 80s).
"Blood In Blood Out" is a very good album. I do not say that equal the best albums of the group (let him time to mature for that) but for Thrash, on annual production, I put largely above the fray .
It's time to get to Exodus what belongs to him: his place of great Thrash. Because, let's be honest five minutes: that's how long the groups "star" of the Big Four have not released an album of this quality?
17/20
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