Not as he-man thrash as Alien or SYL, more of a rule-breaker, which is what made City such a proud (and arguably unlistenable) creative moment in the extreme.
Refused Are Fucking Dead is a documentary in the vein of Meeting People is Easy, in that it’s not a “band DVD” but rather an outsider’s telling of the story.
Catchy, brutal, technical, well-recorded, and gore-a-riffic as anything the band have ever done, which means there are going to be a lot of happy longhairs.
13 years on, the band survived like Kreator: Not a bit out of breath like most of their American contemporaries. There’s just something about German thrash…
Striking cover, great title, summing up the lyrical venom Jourgensen is hurling at the Bush administration, o’er music that is fast, thrashy, and abrasive.
Peccatum crossed with Emperor, stitched together by the occasional and brief prog metal tendencies of either of those that might be described as mainstreamy.