Review by Sonny for Exhorder - Mourn the Southern Skies (2019)

Exhorder's first new album since '92's The Law isn't as terrible a record as you would think reading the comments on RYM - it's a reasonably serviceable album of medium-paced thrash and groove metal. Now, is that good enough for a band who recorded Slaughter in the Vatican? I would suggest not and as a basis for the backlash against it, I totally get it. There is too much of a hard rock feel to the thrashing for the majority of the album, particularly the title track and the only song that even comes close to the quality of the first two albums is the penultimate track, Ripping Flesh, which, I believe, is possibly an old song anyway.
So, to summarise, it's OK, but I've listened to it a couple of times and will probably never bother again. It can only serve to diminish a (semi-)legendary band's reputation.