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
;-)