Review by Rexorcist for Pestilence - Consuming Impulse (1989)

As I explored more and more metal in my early days online, some of the giants in their respective fields would typically be moved upward on my charts once I "got them."  Now I've fleshed out a criteria so strict that some of these giants are just getting seriously lowered.  Today's example would be an album I still consider great on its own merits, but I feel has been slaughtered at the altar by better bands like Morbid Angel: Consuming Impulse.  Don't get me wrong, I really do enjoy a serious metal edge here.  This is one of those albums that allowed for a perfectly produced take on an otherwise noisy metal genre to reach its fullest power without anything being drowned out.  Most of the songs here are somewhere between copies of each other and just different enough to get by, so it's a highly consistent piece with no real variety.  Death had already been established by this point, so some more of that would be appreciated.

If you want some raw thrashing for 25 minutes, this is one of the best examples, much like the Ramones debut was for the punk attitude.  But both albums are still samey throughout.  This is about the same as the Ramones debut to me.