Time Bomb

Well of course this album will get rated poorly without a doubt. This was a band well known in the late 80's and early 90's for their original styled brutal mix of death and thrash metal only comparable to bands such as Malevolent Creation, Sepultura, Devastation, Exhorder, Morbid Saint..but with a more devastating touch..enough to satisfy fans of brutal death and possibly scare away most middle of the road thrash fans.

Anyways, being a fan of the brutal thrash/death style pummeled out by this insane band, Time Bomb is a major let down. However, I can NOT blame Demolition Hammer for this. The band was disbanded after epidemic of violence. Derek and Steve were the only original members featured on Time Bomb. They even said themselves that they did not want to release Time Bomb under the Demolition Hammer name. Vinnie and others went to play in Deviate and Derek and Steve would not continue Demolition Hammer without the entire crew. The album was intended to be in the hardcore/groove style that was popular at the time...similar to Biohazzard, Life of Agony, Pantera with some slight originality from Marquez (the brutallizer) Marquez is a very tight drummer and his drumming is most definitely the highlight of this album.

For fans of groove, you may enjoy this album. It is filled with slow chugging groove riffs with out any thrashful destruction or the brutality that came out of the first two albums. There are only two solos, one being a slow and ineffective one and the other not really standing out too much. Once again however, alex marquez never lets down on the drums. It reminds me of a worse version of The Law by Exhorder....Exhorder however, still had quality riffage and song writing still giving homage to death and thrash metal. Time Bomb however, is just a mostly boring and repetitious effort without many good tracks. A few tracks are listenable and decent enough to play over a few times such as Unidentified, Time Bomb, Power struggle. The title track has some thrashy elements. Most of the album is just slow and mid paced..and it is intended to be that way.

Do not hate this album because it was really unintended to be released as a Demolition Hammer album. It simply was released at the wrong place and the wrong time. If this was a different band, they probably would have ve had more respect and a bigger following. But to the fans, they let everyone down by submerging themselves in the groove/hardcore scene.