Let’s get old school metal here. Thrash metal to be exact. Enter Munich Germany’s RED TO GREY. Formed ten years ago, in 1998, just ten years too late from the original thrash metal onslaught of the late eighties. RED TO GREY are here to bring that era of thrash back. Let’s dive into their third release Admissions and find out if they can save Thrash.

Indeed it sounds as if RED TO GREY has stepped out of 1988. Sounding reminiscent of bands like Sanctuary and Forbidden. Lead singer Andy Pankraz sounds like a cross between Warrel Dane and Queensryche’s Geoff Tate. With his whiney vocals bellowing over the music then add in the occasional scream. The guitars are balls to the walls fast. Lightening fast fretwork and the ever famous gallop of double picked guitars will have you doing air guitar faster than you can say Metallica. The drums are full of speed. Double bass driven with that infamously fast thrash beat. However good this may sound, it starts to get a little boring after song four. In fact, the songs kind of become one another and hard to separate. RED TO GREY have captured my interest in the beginning but are failing to hold my interest. Maybe it is the fact that every song has the same pace and the same structure to it. Though they have the sound of the eighties thrash, they lack the spirit of the movement, the danger and the destruction.

For fans of the old thrash era, give RED TO GREY a chance, Admissions has its moments and it will definitely make you want to start a pit in your living room.