Review by Rexorcist for Destruction - Cracked Brain (1990)

You'd think after such a grand venture into creativity (or at least grand for Destruction's standards) such as Release from Agony, they'd continue with this newfound love of writing and try something bolder and bigger next time.  Instead, what we have is a degeneration back into primordial soup.  And even though that sounds pretty metal, it's not a compliment.  Cracked Brain, release #7 and studio album #4, shows them going back to the same repetitive writing and tempo that they spammed to freakin death on their first three releases and their live album.  The only thing that can be said that's favoriable against the first three is that the production's better.  We've been getting good production from them since Mad Butcher.  But the problem here is that things are significantly less interesting.  Nothing interesting happens until Rippin' You Off Blind, not only takes place after a standard cover of My Sharona of all songs, but goes back to the same old same old again while lessening the effect of the rhythm and atmosphere.  And the most interesting song is the eighth of nine, No Need to Justify, which is only interesting because of a mellow intro and a different tempo.  All of these songs are decent and aggressive alone, but put together it's an incredinly samey experience that I wouldn't be quick to recommend when so many better albums out there exist.

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