Out for Blood

It's a bit shocking that it took 9 long years for "Out For Blood" to release. Well, despite the huge changes that Sadus has made to their style on "Elements Of Anger", Darren Travis' band met with relatively mild criticism, so it could calmly go into ever lighter climates and release this type of music every 3-4 years - especially for those who liked the new style (which, unfortunately, I didn't like so much). Meanwhile, the band had a slightly different vision, so we had to wait a lot more for "Out..." and it was decided that its content would differ quite significantly from the sounds from "Elements...".

Interestingly, "Out For Blood" starts with a powerful hit (i.e. "In The Name Of..."), referring to the times of "A Vision Of Misery" and meaningfully intertwining between thrashing speeds and smaller slowdowns. Unfortunately, the spell has broken with the coming of "No More", which begins to happen total atrocities. You get the impression that the band did not deduce virtually any conclusions from "Elements Of Anger". Because instead of focusing on a specific style (whether to soften or tighten the music as a whole), the trio simply stuffed everything here as it goes, regardless of the end result. Well, this one is really weak. Okay, apart from the aforementioned "In The Name Of...", there are also songs that resembles the later Testament like "Freedom" (by the way, a nice tribute to Chuck Schuldiner), title track (decent power) and "Crazy" (in which Chuck Billy himself appeared, adding a bit of an Indian atmosphere), but that's all of the biggest highlights (which is a joke with the 55-minute material). In the rest of the tracks the band is playing smuggling groove metal patents (and in "Down" even metalcore ones!) or experimenting with electronics, but unfortunately it doesn't make any sense. Even - as always - the excellent bass work of Steve DiGiorgio does not improve the quality of these songs.

After nine years of silence from the times of "Elements Of Anger", the Americans from Sadus hit with the album very much below their capabilities. On "Out For Blood" they decided to throw everything that came to their mind, from thrash metal to groovy "jumpiness" and synthesizer additions. It came out quite grotesquely, as if they had not made any selection here.

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