3:43 mark
The early 90’s response to Reign in Blood, a
30-minutes-or-less delivery of the evilest damned thing ever played by a
four-piece ensemble. Legion is no drill, no practice, but a deliberate
exhaustion of every retribution to find its way through the seep of a Pandora’s
Box. No rhyme to these satanic verses Glen Benton is bellowing, no reasons given to
Eric and Brian Hoffman shredding like the end is nigh. But hey, deliberate. What an angry expulsion of
noise that amazingly congeals into 8 songs of hyperkinetic death metal, often
playing so fast it trips on its own laces (listen to the beginning and end of
Satan Spawn, The Caco-Daemon…good grief. Poor drummer can barely keep up with
the guitars). A shameless case of the extreme, although it amazes me to this
day how vocalist/bassist Benton deplores this…thing the group created, quick to
label it as a rushed follow-up to first studio recording. Hell, put them under
pressure more often and see how high the inversions can reach the heavens.
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