Mercury Tide
Why? (Century Media)
by Martin Popoff
It’s funny, the whole set-up of this thing spells sell-out or critical drubbing or other disaster, given perspective. But as much as the idea of Angel Dust’s Dirk Thurisch doing Sentenced-style churn rock blows (Angel Dust, if you recall, broke up, joining Immortal as bands bloody well loved and gone in untimely fashion), I find myself reaching for this punchy, unadorned, self-evident, and honest (ironically so?) record fairly often, to the point where I’m actually beginning to learn it (egad!).
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