Exodus
Let There be Blood
Zaentz (2008)
Why re-record your own album almost twenty-five years later? Some, including this reviewer, find the redundancy almost laughable, but yet it appears to be more and more common, crossing across all genres everyone from Dimmu Borgir to the Cowboy Junkies is doing it. The more mainstream of bands could certainly be accused of doing it solely for financial gain. After all, new material, old material, re-recorded, re-imagined, compiled into a "greatest hits" collection, it's usually all the same shit when you're working with that brand name recognition. Just slap the band's name on the front and the sheep will loosen the purse strings. But when it's a thousand times cheaper to release the ubiquitous "hits" album, be it remastered or not, the question again becomes why? Why re-record your own stuff? If you're legendary thrash band Exodus, you re-record as an homage to deceased former singer Paul Baloff, who died of complications from a stroke in 2002. Let There be Blood is the 2008 version of the band's debut, Bonded by Blood, recorded in 1985 with Baloff. The album is considered by many to be a forgotten classic. "Forgotten" only in the sense that it was lost in the formidable … Read more
The Sea and Cake
Car Alarm
Thrill Jockey (2008)
That easy, jazz-infused post-rock has come a long way since adopting a mispronunciation of their intended band name (The "C" … Read more
Grey Daturas
Return to Disruption
Neurot (2008)
Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, Grey Daturas is an enigmatic trio whose music is an amalgamation of many musical styles from … Read more
