Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance

The 90’s saw the peak for christian thrash bands’ popularity. ‘Pathogenic’ was the follow up for Psycho Surgery and you can tell this is one of the best thrash metal albums with progressive and classical influences.

Pathogenic Occular Dissonance has a powerful song structure and deals with spiritual blindness. Cool riffs and powerful drumming and amazing tempo changes. Very aggressive yet progressive influenced song.

Phantom Limb follows and the riffs here are just astonishing, the guitar effects and solos are but superior. This song deals with medical allegories about disability.
Ruminating Virulence again has powerful rhythm sections, amazing tempo changes and aggression as well.

Spectrophobic dementia goes next and here the riffs with the bass and drums following make the perfect match for the song flow. This song deals with post war traumas.

And the most bizarre song ever heard by me! ‘Gelatinous Tubercules…’ is…well, what a song! A little hard to dig, but once you begin understanding it, it grows on you. The ‘alien’ voice by the is all but bizarre, the drumming and guitar driven first part is so good and the vocals fit even better, since they are more like Lenaire’s screamings than singing but they are powerful enough to fit the songs. The second part, the ultra complex tempo changes is beyond words, and then the ending with the super cool again drumming and guitar driven rhythm makes a pristine constructed progressive thrash with classical influences...ahhh, song!

The second part is more regular songs ala Slayer or even Sepultura with some bass driven interludes ‘til we get to the closer: The Skeezix Dilemma and the allegorical children’s abuse theme is an epic anthem with fast guitar solo, Spanish vocal interludes, classical guitar added, slow pace at the beginning, not to mention the creepy circus from the beginning which sets the mood for the song and giving it a creepy atmosphere to perfectly close the album with a awesome kickass rhythm section.

A top thrash metal album that perfectly mixes power, aggression, complexity, atmospheres and experimental effects and passages to make you feel worthy of appreciate speed/thrash metal in their entire splendor!