Saturday, January 28, 2012

Power From Hell

When I wrote about Black Uniforms I mentioned Onslaught, then realized I haven't featured the British thrash masters on the Hearse before. Onslaught started in 1983 in the bullshit town of Bristol as a punk band, but by 1985 the young men of Onslaught were possessed by Satan and opted to play more metal on their debut. You can still here plenty of Discharge influence, and I think this is precisely why Power From Hell is Onslaught's best release, and one of the coolest thrash albums of the 1980s. With each album, they became less punk, more polished, and eventually enlisted Steve "Grim Reaper" Grimmett to front the band for 1989's underwhelming In Search of Sanity. Onslaught reformed in 2006 and has since released two more studio albums, but I have no idea if they are worthwhile or not. I don't need to know, I have Power From Hell on three formats.



8 comments:

Dirk 'DiNo' Noben said...

Got 'Killing Peace'. It's OK, but needless to say it's no 'Power From Hell'. I was pleased however to see them live a couple of years ago

JottEff said...

Discharge indeed! I only knew the silly `Let There Be Rock´ cover from the late 80ties and dismissed the band as disposable. But this is great stuff, thanks a bunch!

lkajfdslkjdfo said...

YESSSSSSSS

POWER
POWER
POWER
POWER FROM HELL

amongst my favourite thrash albums.

east kansas banger said...

Great great album fred. Ya know... You would have thought that "In Search Of Sanity" would just kill but alas you pegged it. Underwhelming. Anywho "power From Hell" does plenty of killing.

Carm said...

Thanks! Just in time for their US tour this March! Hopefully they'll have this available on wax during the tour! You going Aesop?

Aesop said...

Yes, I believe Evil Dead are supporting them in SF

Brian said...

great album. i only heard them years ago due to forca macabra's cover of the song "power from hell." crushing stuff.

Daniel said...

Just saw the Onslaught tour poster and right next to it was a flyer for an upcoming Possessed show. Anyways thanks.