God Save the Scene

'God Save The Scene' is really a forgotten gem from the late thrash scene. Intelligent lyrics, moshing riffs, badass attitude and a lot of catchiness to be found here. It has a punkish feeling here and there with it's simple riffs and gang vocals, it's an album which is almost crossover but tends more into thrash metal style. Quite addictive album also, I remember a period when I listened to it twice almost each day, for several weeks.

We start off with with 'Hide Under White' which is is about the stupidity of the KKK, racism etc. If I identified it well, it begins with a recording of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" famous speech, then the guitars slowly fades in and the band shouts "time has come for racism to die!" and it keeps flows and then it settles down and continue with a moderate heavy riffing and the vocals joins with a lot of anger and heat and the song gets speed ahead and becomes headbangable as usual. Very intense track, with a positive message and tons of energy. 'Think For Yourself' is another highlight, quite intense riffing and aggressive vocals, flowing pretty well and has quite decent lead guitar work. 'One That I Am' reminds me 'Testament' a little bit in the versers, it also has some cool bass breaks and catchy riffing, you just can't stop the headbang! Well, almost. There is a little clean passage which chilling down the aggression, but then it continues to kicks asses until it overs.

In conclusion: this is a great album, short and enjoyable one. Even that most of the songs doesn't changes too much, it doesn't becomes repetitive for a bit and each song stands for it's own. Simply, if you like thrash go get it now!