Review by Ben for Death Angel - The Ultra-Violence (1987)

This is a difficult album for me to review. On the one hand, it's an extremely impressive feat for a bunch of 18-year-old cousins to release something so technically awesome with so many stupendously great riffs as their debut album all the way back in 1987. On the other hand, there are a few tracks on here that I don't really rate, the vocalist can at times get a bit annoying and their tendency to muck around and just do whatever whenever stops the album from being truly memorable throughout.

But credit where credit is due, when they put their heads down and wrote music, such as with The Ultra-Violence instrumental and Voracious Souls, the results were damn good. The Ultra Violence is a cult thrash album with good reason, but I still can't listen to the whole album without losing my enthusiasm for it. A little overrated but not by much.