MORTAL SIN

Release Year: 2022
Artist Origin: AUS
Style: massive dark expressive thrash metal

with former Slaughter Lord guitarist Mick Burke joining the ranks, on the second full-length release [1989] Australian crew significantly strengthened more technical and mature side of their rebellious music, clearly influenced by the era's notable Bay Area achievements, while preserving the aggression characteristic of their early period, enhancing it with tighter rhythmic structures, heavier sound, more inventive arrangements, and more controlled dynamics, where not only the arsenal of riffs becomes a crucial weapon, but also prominent bass guitar input, thunderous drumming, and Mat Maurer's expressive vocal attack, together collectively demonstrating greater patience, avoiding neither weight of mid-tempo pacing, atmospheric passages, nor a darker emotional direction, thus allowing these ten songs to be deservedly regarded as perhaps their most ambitious and mature chapter in entire career; recent British digipak edition comes with a remastered sound and extensive liner notes of band members in the booklet