JACK SLATER – Blut/Macht/Frei
 
Label: War Anthem Records
Release: March 14 2008
By: the.wangacopta
Rating: 6/10
Time: 49:51
Style: Brutal Death Metal
URL: Jack Slater
 

If I should write this review as JACK SLATER play their brutal, technical Death Metal than I’ve got to lump the character together, agitate them to reunite them in user-defined order of my choice. This will be as heavy for the spell check as listening to Blut/Macht/Frei. Technical Death Metal well and good, but my short term memory likes to be fed by miscellaneous recurrent sound orgies. And this is, sadly, just too rarely the case on the third full-length release in 13 years by now. I’m aware of choosing sadly, because among the felt 1000 ideas are really cool ones like in Amnestia. This untypical JACK SLATER track takes the one and the same idea several times, even if it’s groove in a butchers’ rope. The destructive wrecking ball called Rost with its fucking awesome propulsive and straight passages and blast beats can also be assigned to the sadly. This track with its 8 minutes bangs quite well forward and is created still traceable. By many other songs the feeling rise up indeed that JACK SLATER could play a song for hours without finish or without having an aim in mind at all. The guitars shot in several weird ways through Blut/Macht/Frei, many ideas seem to be stringed together and this is why the songs sound cumbrous. Existing of four stitches, Narbe takes the same line with its 22 minutes playing time. It’s characteristic that a sax is used right in the middle anyhow. Also an idea amongst plenty… Vocalist Horn abides by his German lyrics. Even if the guys are absolutely fit in technical play and the tracks are well recorded, the cornucopia should be less opened next time. Conclusion: one can affect JACK SLATER - if you don’t get an access to this stuff, maybe the band compensates you with another eBay Rent-A-Band auction ;-)