Ragged, jagged, raw and chaotic. That's how you'd have described thrash metal in the early 1980s. A spiky rallying call against the establishment, full of piss and spit, with little respect for those who put them down. The Bay Area epitomised that aggression, although each country brought its own edge to the genre.
40 years since those heady days, the feelings remain and as each generation steps up, more bands look back rather than forward.
With an average age of 18, Cwmbran's Exaust are certainly full of anger. But then, they are from Cwmbran. They're about to release their single B.T.C. (Bite the Curb) and one listen makes it obvious where the influences for this quintet are from. It's Exodus, Vio-Lence, Slayer and Sepultura that have been on these lads playlists for sure.
What's it about? "BTC (or Bite the Curb) is a track full of drive, aggression and hate. It fits how we as young people feel with the state of some entitled people in the UK and we want to show them a piece of OUR MINDS!! We want you to feel the passion of hate as we do when you listen to this track as we unleash our emotions through the music!"
Played with a passion and fire that you would want a group of this age to possess, B.T.C does nothing that is original. It's held together with cheap tape, feels like it could all come undone at any minute, and careers along at high tempo. Throw in the shouty vocals and gang chants, and you have thrash metal by numbers. And perhaps that's the attraction of this single. It's just done with that early grit when you feel you can conquer the world. Give it a listen, and see what you think.
Lyric video by UK Thrashers
Review by Hutch
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