The third
Onslaught album to be released on as many labels,
In Search of Sanity also featured the band's third vocalist, former
Grim Reaper screamer
Steve Grimmett. Not that the experienced
Grimmett manages to lend any more personality to the band's predictable metal arsenal. "Shellshock" and the title track are competent, if rather long, examples of the band's unbearably average classic/thrash metal hybrid. The blunt riffing of "Blood Upon the Ice" and "Power Play" display a noticeable
Exodus crunch and "Welcome to Dying" (clocking in at an absurd 12 minutes) sounds like a
Metal Church outtake. Surprises? Well, they do knock out a thrashy take on
AC/DC's "Let There Be Rock," but the results are interesting at best. And opener "Asylum" is the kind of generic not-as-creepy-as-you-think instrumental that gives metal a bad name.