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You're the one making strawman arguments with terms like "Psuedo-thrash" which isn't even a word. I'd bet a dollar to doughnuts that if this album had the classic, shitty band in-a-closet sound of just about every Thrash metal album to come out of the 80's, everyone would be saying how badass, and a return to form it is. As for metalcore, I haven't even heard the idiots over at the metal-archives make that outlandish correlation yet, and they are usually the first to start making such comments. Most of the negative reviews I've read of the album complain about the somewhat repetitive nature of the songs themselves, not making sweeeping claims like Exodus has gone metalcore. It's the same damn thing they've been doing since Tempo of the Damned, just with a different singer and an admittedly soulless production from Andy "I make everybody sound the same" Sneap. I heard the same comments being thrown around about United Abominations earlier this year, yet everytime I listen to it, I hear Dave chugging away on most of the songs just like he's always done. There's a big difference between saying you don't like something, and making comments like it's not Thrash because I don't like it. I can't stand Death Angel's "Frolic Through the Park", but I'm more than willing to admit that it is Thrash.
First of all, calling something pseudo thrash is not a strawman argument-
I called it metalcore because thats what it sounds like to me, irregardless of whether or not I like it. I like some metalcore- I listen to Shadows Fall and All Out War and All That Remains. I dislike some thrash. You're implying that I don't like it, and therefore call it metalcore as a means of discrediting it. But I'm not. I'm calling it a boring album, and also one that happens to be largely not thrash, just like the past two Exodus albums, which have largely focused on groove as opposed to thrash riffs; once again, I can enjoy Scar Spangled Banner even though I think its largely not a thrash song. Whatever, you disagree that its not thrash. But really, stop being so goddamn melodramatic and attributing all these assumptions to me- "it doesn't have thrash production, so its not thrash!" I in many ways prefer more modern production to the "band in a closet" sound- give me Destruction's "The Antichrist" production over Eternal Devastation's any day. I think this album is boring. I also think it has a largely metalcore, groovy base to it with some thrash influence, in the tradition of the last two Exodus albums. Huzzah.
