Artist: Exodus
Label: Capitol Records
Release Date: 1990
Rating: 4 Skulls
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Title: Impact is Imminent Artist: Exodus Label: Capitol Records Release Date: 1990 Rating: 4 Skulls |
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Death's Review:
Exodus are best known for their classic first album, Bonded By Blood, and for the limited MTV attention they got with their "Toxic Waltz" video from their Fabulous Disaster album. I really dig Pleasures of the Flesh too, and have previously written about that album for this site. But today I'm writing about the album they put out after the success of Fabulous Disaster, Impact is Imminent. This record backed away from the silliness of "The Toxic Waltz" in some regards, while trying to recapture it with others ("The Lunatic Parade"), providing for some decidedly mixed results overall. However, in hindsight, there were some great songs on this album, most notably "Only Death Decides," which I saw Paul Baloff jam at the Thrash of the Titans show. That performance renewed my interest in the song and in the album. I also like "Objection Overruled," and the thrashy opener, "Impact is Imminent."All in all, this was not the album Exodus needed it to be to overcome the winds of commercial change that were sweeping across the musical landscape in 1990. This would be the last of the three Exodus albums in a row that would mark this "era" of the band (Pleasures, Fabulous and Impact, with the next album, Force of Habit, being a bit of a departure in style and in sound). And while Exodus ultimately would return to form in 2004 with Tempo of the Damned, this was pretty much the end of a certain era of Bay Area thrash, in many ways. Not a perfect record by any means, and not exactly a "classic" in the "exalted" sense of the word, but from a heavy metal historian or student of the heavy metal arts perspective, it is an album that should be taken note of along the way.
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