The Law

Artist: Exhorder Label: Roadrunner Records Category: Music Average customer rating: Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 016861923426 EAN: 0016861923426 ASIN: B000000H7H Release Date: 1992-02-11

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Tracks:

1. Soul Search Me
2. Unforgiven
3. I Am the Cross
4. Un-Born Again
5. Into the Void
6. Truth
7. Law
8. Incontinence
9. (Cadence of) the Dirge

Customer Reviews:

The heaviest thrash album of all time?.......2003-12-07

The Truth.......2003-12-05

Many fans of the band prefer 'The Law' to 'Slaughter In The Vatican', and with good reason. Where the first album was unbridled aggression vented in all directions, 'The Law' keeps organised religion squarely in the crosshairs.

Some of the sharp edges evident in the first album have been filed down. The guitar sound loses a little of the raw chainsaw quality before, but is heavier, and fuller in the bottom end. Kyle Thomas' vocals have far more melody to them. That's not to say he sounds any less angry, but Thomas actually runs through some good melodies.

Exhorder were kind of Spinal Tap-like when it came to bass players. To that end, guitarists LaBella and Ceravolo played all the bass on the first album, and all but one track on the second. Their new bass player, Franky Sparcello played an amazing slap bass backing track to "Un-Born Again", which was all he had time for after joining the band in the middle of recording. At the time, there was a big trend toward so-called "funk metal", but this didn't follow the trend. Far from being a plain bass track, slapped instead of picked, Sparcello runs up and down the fretboard with incredible dexterity, augmenting Chris Nail's jazz thrash drumming. Unfortunately, that's all Sparcello ever recorded with Exhorder.

There are a number of highlights on this album, even for a band as impressive as this. There is a hint at Kyle Thomas' post-Exhorder stoner/doom band, in the form of an excellent cover of Black Sabbath's "Into The Void". "Unforgiven" is an exercise in dynamics, using pace and rhythm to excellent effect. Never a band afraid of doing something different, the final two tracks are an instrumental in "Incontinence" and "(Cadence Of) The Dirge" which is well, a dirge. It is a bleak, oppressive song, displaying dark emotions of hopelessness, sorrow and self-pity.

While lost in the flood of Floridan Death Metal and the emerging Seattle Grunge explosion, Exhorder really missed the recognition they deserved at the time, and self-destructed after the recording of 'The Law'. However, their influence and importance has been recognised since. Perhaps because the band quit with a solid body of only two albums behind them, they had not tarnished their reputation. Personally, I would have liked to have heard a third or fourth album, further incorporating the jazz, funk, stoner, doom and any number of other elements, just to see what would have happened.

Harrowing a Darker Time.......2003-05-09

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