Published: Absolute Underground Issue #47 August/September 2012
Battlecross is a band from Detroit, Michigan who got signed to MetalBlade Records a little over a year ago. Their MetalBlade debut and second album is "pursuit of honour" and it's starting to get some notice due to a lot of touring and hardwork from the band. They call themselves "blue-collar thrash" probably in the way some punk bands call themselves DIY.
The first track is kind of a mellow minute long intro, and that's the last mellow thing until the last track. Mellowness to start and end the album is pretty cool, like bookends to brutality. The second song is "pull push destroy". Over a million people have watched this video on youtube and it gives you a pretty good idea what the rest of it will sound like. It's got the machinegun drumming and new-school thrash vocals that are on every song. The twin guitars play really well of eachother and there's some good soloing at the end of "deception". Most of the songs aren't much past three and a half minutes so there's not a lot of extra or wasted space on these songs.
If your a fan of the new-wave of american metal bands that all started with Lamb of God and Shadows Fall you'll probably really like this...if you think of yourself as a "purist" or "elitist" it might not be your thing. You're probably going to be hearing a lot more about these guys in the future. It looks like their touring schedule is going to be pretty heavy for the forseeable future and they've got MetalBlade marketing behind them as well. Check them out on youtube and if they tour near you they look like they'd be good live.
Michael Carnage
http://www.battlecrossmetal.com/
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