Violent By Nature - Atrophy

Another band emerging from the American thrash trend of the late eighties, Atrophy's career was a brief one that abruptly ended as the nineties arrived and thrash metal went out fashion. It's a good enough album, if lacking originality in the way pretty much all thrash outside of Anthrax, Metallica, Slayer, Testament and Megadeth tends to, and it's the latter band that seems to provide the most inspiration here as otherwise dull songs about childhood are rendered somewhat interesting by an explosion of lengthy guitar solos at the end. While I obviously couldn't say whether this band's brief rise and fall was due to financial pressure and a sense of which way ...  Read the complete review