INRAGE: Built to Destroy CD PROMO. A la Testament. Check samples.

BUILT TO DESTROY is a 21-century metal meltdown: modern metal music with a touch of the 80's bay area thrash sound. Features ex-members of Lost Souls.

Inrage – Built To Destroy
Label: Scarlet – SC 049-2, SPV GmbH – SPV 085-148342 CD
Format: CD, Album, Promo
Country: Europe
Released: 2002
Genre: Thrash
Tracklist▼
1 Rebirth Of The Souls 0:46
2 Gift To Restore 4:20
3 Let Chaos In 3:26
4 Life Denied 4:27
5 Ultra Violence 3:02
6 Dead Heart Beating 3:48
7 Built To Destroy 4:24
8 Inject The Venom 3:15
9 Survival Of The Fittest 2:50
10 I Go Alone 3:11
11 No Tomorrow 3:17

Is housed in a cardboard sleeve
Barcode: 8 025044 004922
Matrix / Runout: A0100413084-0101 15 A1 SonyDADC IFPI L555

5.0 out of 5 stars Lost Souls Evolve.,
Sallings vocals are just as awesome, but the band has abandoned the industrial side of their [Lost Souls] music and turned their sound into more modern metal with a touch of the 80's bay area thrash. Overall a very good album, very technical, and a very unique sound. definately worth checking out if your a fan of true metal.

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11 songs, 37 minutes playing time.
Fat Thrash Metal. Their Thrash has a big Modern Metal-touch (especially with the Anselmo-like vocals). I have to say that these elements are absorbed pretty well and bringing a great result.

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Angry Modern Groove Thrash
I read a review for this album where the writer said they were the new Testament. They were hailed as a sort of new reality in a period of rebirth for thrash metal and I must partially agree even if it’s not completely old school thrash metal and I don’t see the resemblance to Testament very much concerning the style style.

The intro is a simple, short track where two banjos tuned guitars play together to introduce the groovy, first track. What can we state from here is that the production is extremely good and pounding. It’s very similar to the one by Darkane and Soilwork. The tempo is not fast and quite hammering with a good guitars work. The riffs are between the old style palm muting and some classic modern Swedish parts, especially during the mid paced tempo.

Already from here we can understand that is not completely thrashing metal, as I said before. The vocals are quite heavy and brutal but always with an eye to the grove-half thrash metal style with some more melodic and clean touches. “Let Chaos In” is faster with up tempo and Soilwork style, essential drums. There is always a loud base of new Swedish metal even if the riffs are more galloping and played old style; a fact that doesn’t bother me because I quite like this genre, when it’s not full of clean vocals chorus and with too stopped guitars.

What I must admit is that each song contains quite recognizable guitars parts and melodies, mostly because the structures are always quite simple and direct with few but catchy riffs. Anyway, that is not so thrash metal too. As so often happens in this kind of metal, the guitars solos are not the most important element and sometimes are just like fillers, being quite derivative. Unfortunately, the most groove and in some parts, industrial, martial tempo come in “Ultra Violence” and “Inject The Venom”. Here the band follows again the style of their previous project, Lost Souls.

Songs like the title track, “Survival of The Fittest” and “No Tomorrow” are faster and really violent. At the end I must say that I really appreciated the load of violence and anger this group has.