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Tracklist

01. Addiction
02. Dead To Me
03. Outraged
04. Warriors
05. Black And Blue
06. Change Your Ways
07. For My Family
08. No Regrets
09. Revenge
10. We Want The Truth
11. By My Side
12. Come Alive
13. All These Years
14. Forgive Me Mother
15. Break The Chains

Agnostic Front have been around the block a few times, "Warriors" is album number nine from this band that started in the first half of the eighties. For anyone still unaware of Agnostic Front, they are a hardcore band, or a crossover thrash metal band with a real punch behind their music. It is easy to see how bands such as Hatebreed and the like have been greatly influenced by Agnostic Front, but twenty-five years after forming these guys are back to show everyone else how it is done.

Many people claim bands are either love them or hate them bands, but this cannot be applied better than it is to Agnostic Front. This band will have a devoted core of fans passionate about this kind of smash-mouth music, but also there will be a good percentage of people out there that know this is just not for them. Agnostic Front have just that, a very raw and aggressive front - this is very much metal for heavily tattooed bald people who like to fight as the front cover of the album makes sure you understand before picking it up.

This is hardcore thrash metal and it is good quality hardcore thrash metal as well. "Warriors" explodes right from the beginning with a flurry of double bass drumming with "Addiction", accompanied by typical hardcore style guitar riffs and the shouting, hostile vocals of Roger Miret. If the very style of Agnostic Front does not put off then the almost strange, overly threatening vocals might do the trick - still, a few songs in and everything becomes normal.

In true hardcore style the songs are hardly epic opuses, the longest song on the album is just over three minutes, the average song length is probably around the two minutes area. The lyrics do not touch on any deep, emotional matters, but again this is not the hardcore style - so if you know you like this kind of music, you will like this album. Songs are not complicated or technical, we have bold guitar riffs and drums constantly smashing over them, the music has an easy groove to get into and bang your head to and also tracks like "For My Family" provide the opportunity to shout along to, this of course would be most poignant in the live environment.

"Warriors" totals just over half an hour in length, half an hour of pure, unrelenting hardcore thrash, smashing drums and aggressive shouting. Nothing technical, nothing melodic here at all, but nothing extremely brutal either. "Warriors" is a typical album of its genre, so if this kind of music is for you then I probably did not even need to tell you to go and check it out.

Source : Way Too Loud!

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