I will admit that I would not even have thought about reviewing this album had I only read the band’s name and the album title ~ too socially active and uninteresting (On that note, the band covered TWISTED SISTER’S Street Justice).

I was nevertheless careful enough to listen to the CD to the end and pay the album a closer listening session beforehand. What I heard was more or less revealing: quality musicians with occasionally very good ideas; a sporadic dialogue between grunted/ clear vocals, now and then captivating guitar work (TESTAMENT is a source of inspiration) and alas! a nu~metal edge to the music, at times. Even so, the album is thus provided with a certain variation and on the whole it ends up being quite positive.

Now off to the most interesting part of the album: music. 2 Minutes 2 Live sounds like a bit of POSSESSED and more so VENOM~like clean vocals. It is undoubtedly Thrash metal to the core with a strong dialogic game between clean and grunted vocals, one of the best aspects in the album. On the other hand, Rotten To The Core is more CORROSION OF CONFORMITY in nature with Mike Patton~like vocals (in the choruses).

The intro to Life Undead rings a frighteningly nu~metal bell, but fortunately, it all changes as the song progresses and vocals are more grunted and the music gets heavier. R. C. P. A. S. Pt 1 is a slightly interesting Death Metal interlude (5 seconds long) and is also the introduction to That’s the Living in Me, a song which I tend to like because it tends to tread the same path as NEVERMORE.

R. C. P. A. S. Pt 2 is obviously a 4~second~long continuation of the abovementioned Pt 1 and further to the end of the album, Ritual In Rhodes is the long awaited neck~breaker, faster, heavier and more appealing than previous tracks (second only to the first track). There is a short hidden track in the album, by the way.

There are quite a few good moments throughout the album and the overall image is quite positive. Musically speaking, that is. Unfortunately, these are the exceptions. Most songs are actually quite average.

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