Exodus
Exhibit B: The Human Condition
Rating
Style: (Bay Area) Thrash Metal
Release date: May 18th 2010
 

I know I’m extremely biased in this review, this album I waited for, for over a year. After their last effort, Exhibit A, in my opinion was close to a stroke of genius, I couldn’t wait to hear how they’d follow that one up - and they deliver!

This is pure potent pounding power - just like Exodus is supposed to be. Just an hour after receiving this, my neck was hurting like not for years - it's impossible not to be carried away if you’re an old thrasherhead like me.  Generally it's a show of energy, speed and tightness, and the drumming alone with relentless beats does that this album for me belongs in the 90’s regarding points in rating, - and the power in the deep end is surely there as always. And for the first time I didn’t miss Souza’s vocals - Rob does a killer job on this one (real old-school).

This album is faster, but also slightly more melodic than the previous: Bay Area God-Thrash with some classic Heavy Metal to it, and rock’n’roll-attitude and -sound as well. The sound is a bit more “organic” this time, not quite as polished – and yet it’s still unmistakably “the Exodus sound”, but with room for experiments with a different approach.

Where Exhibit A was mostly about religion and all the depravity that (can) come with it, this one deals more with the primitive and depraved sides of human culture: ignorance, cruelty and the ability to be mislead to do evil. As always Exodus delivers kicks to those who think they know the only truth.

…and it’s damn cool graphics too, with Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man as template, showing what mankind’s culture can (has) lead to, it gives a good hint to, what this album is about. And at the same time with connection back to the previous cover from Exhibit A in colors and style.

Summing it up, I would say: this is thrash with class - one of the pioneers of Thrash Metal is still going strong(er). Three words describe it: Awesome, awesome and more f***’in’ awesome!

BUY! (or be a pu**y!)
Tracklist

01.

The Ballad Of Leonard And Charles

02.

Beyond The Pale

03.

Hammer And Life

04.

Class Dismissed (A Hate Primer)

05.

Downfall

06.

March Of The Sycophants

07.

Nanking

08.

Burn, Hollywood, Burn

09.

Democide

10.

The Sun Is My Destroyer

11.

A Perpetual State Of Indifference

12.

Good Riddance

Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Distribution: Nuclear Blast Records
Artwork rating: 95/100
Reviewed by: Claus Melsen
Date: July 23rd 2010
Website: www.exodusattack.com