Mondo Bungle

Phlebotomized are back after 22 years with a new album and though they don't seem to have improved their album cover game, their most awful yet, it's a return to their classic debut



https://phlebotomizedhhr.bandcamp.com/

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Unitron

Listening to the actual album, even though I own the US vinyl release:


The US and Canada got screwed with this album. The tracklistings for those versions are a combination of songs from this album and Demolition. Should have just released both albums over here. Biggest problem with said versions, no Back to Start. Easily the best song on the album and has one of the coolest bass hooks in metal.

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Oriphiel

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Exodus' first release after reuniting in the late 90s, Another Lesson in Violence, was a live album with Paul Baloff a few years before his death. The playlist is most of Bonded By Blood with even a similar tracklisting, with the three other songs being two from Pleasures of the Flesh and one that was previously unrecorded. I don't know if Exodus just wanted to go straight pure old school or if Paul refused to sing any of the songs they wrote with Zetro (I'm guessing the two Pleasures songs were written before Paul got the boot).

So it's almost like an alternate version of Bonded By Blood sans "Metal Command" but with added crowd interaction from Paul that shows him to be the lunkheaded cretin you knew he must have been. My favorite is when he goes on to introduce "No Love" and starts talking about how it reminds him of some guy he doesn't like walking into his house when he's asleep and then he pitches a fit. But then it turns out he forgot the next song was actually "Brain Dead".

Oh and the album ****ing rips too.

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Exodus rage, thrash, and destroy greater than any band except for maybe Slayer and even then they kind of do so in enough of a different way that it's kind of hard to definitively say which one do so the best when both are firing on all cylinders. Slayer just didn't have the singer issues that Exodus did (Zetro was almost NEVER the vocalist Exodus needed except for parts of Fabulous Disaster and the first four or five songs from Tempo of the Damned) and generally never went down the MTV thrash route that partially castrated Exodus in the late 80s/early 90s (I don't know if South of Heaven qualifies as MTV thrash but good songs or not it's weak and I don't care what anyone says).

But when Exodus are doing what they need to do they are Slayer's equal and can in fact be the best metal band on the planet. Like here.

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Unitron

lol disagree completely. Zetro is the best Exodus vocalist, honestly never cared for much of their stuff without him. Maybe I like him best because he sounds closer to Bobby Blitz. Which speaking of, Overkill > Exodus

Mosh anthems, man:

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Mondo Bungle

I like him better with Tenet

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Unitron

Never heard of them before, but sounds good. Reminds me of the Tempo of the Damned album meets Strapping Young Lad, which makes sense considering those involved.

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windsock

**** that's bad. You gotta wonder what the thought process (or the lack thereof) was behind something like that.

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