SUICIDE WATCH – Global Warning
Marquee Records
The band SUICIDE WATCH
comes from the United Kingdom and they were formed in 2003 by musicians that
wanted to create politicized thrash metal music. In 2005 they released their
debut live album entitled “Live Winter Death” and in the same year they also
released their debut studio album under the title “Global Warning”. Marquee
Records gives us the chance to listen to these two albums again in this CD
release.
THE COVER: The artist of the cover is no other than the famous Ed Repka
and besides it being beautiful and unique it reflects perfectly the lyrical
theme of the band’s songs. It is a very detailed picture and I will try to give
you a hint about it in a few words. On the background you can see a city in
riot and cops trying to suppress it and also a child crying and other people
making a suicide jump. Finally in front of all these you can see a man in
costume cutting his throat with a knife he holds in his own hand. The message
is pretty clear about where we are headed to when we put money and profit above
all.
MUSICAL STYLE: Actually here we have two albums in one CD and so you
will have the chance to listen to 23 songs of pure aggressive thrash metal.
SUICIDE WATCH musically are a riff based band and their style is close to bands
like SLAYER and KREATOR, but you can also find in their sound influences from
the bay area thrash metal scene and they reminded me of bands like ANTHRAX and
early METALLICA. Since this is the debut album I think it is natural for the
band to show its influences, but besides that SUICIDE WATCH also add their own
style to these influences and make them distinguishable. Also by listening to
their live album they made me think that these guys must be killer on stage
because they breathe out raw energy which makes your adrenaline pump and your
head bang.
CONCLUSION: My friends here we have pure old school thrash metal
and an album that is made to be played loud… I think the fans of the sound will
approve this release. So, check it out…
Nick “Verkaim” Parastatidis
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