You can always count on
Exodus to supply some good, old-fashioned, downright vicious thrash metal with each release. And the lads deliver once more on their 2010 offering,
Exhibit B: The Human Condition (impressively, their fourth album over a six-year period -- 2004-2010). As with the past few
Exodus releases, guitarist
Gary Holt and drummer
Tom Hunting are the sole original members left in attendance. But this certainly doesn't prevent the group from offering up an absolutely brutal slab of thrash metal -- with the intensity not dipping one iota from beginning to end. And according to
Holt,
Exhibit B is a bit of a concept album, as the lyrics deal with such warm and fuzzy topics as "cruelty, ignorance, inhumanity, and brutality." Either way, the heavy duty topics certainly fit in well with the fast and furious riffing and vocal roars (the latter courtesy of
Rob Dukes) -- as evidenced on such headbanging ragers as the album opener, "The Ballad of Leonard and Charles," as well as "Class Dismissed (A Hate Primer)" and "March of the Sycophants." Even with the tunes that momentarily take a breather ("Democide," "A Perpetual State of Indifference," etc.), it's only a matter of time until
Exodus rams down the gas pedal once again and returns to their chug-a-lug riffery.
Exodus has always liked it fast and furious, and they certainly don't disappoint with
Exhibit B: The Human Condition. ~ Greg Prato