Sacrilege - Turn Back Trilobite (2021 Reissue) (CD)

Includes bonus demo and live tracks.

A truly important entity that managed to carve their own individualistic sound from the get-go with this abrasive crust / punk / hardcore / thrash "madness" that was their debut. The sophomore continued consolidating their reputation as a less ordinary band the guys (and a girl) insisting on their hypnotic, monolithic mid-paced delivery without any unnecessary flourishes. Speed was out of the question, but one hardly needed it in this particular case as the band were the requisite antidote to the myriads of fast-paced riffmongers with which the scene had started filling in. It took a crust/thrashcore outfit to remember the glorious past of British metal, and bring it up to the front in all its lustre. And not only, but even after all these years this album stands as one of the five finest products of the UK sizeable doom metal movement. It single-handedly elevated the doom consciousness in England in order to make acts like My Dying Bride, Cathedral, Serenity, Solitude, Mourn and Acrimony possible. They could have fitted so well into the tsunami of doom metal practitioners that started a mere few years later... I guess it was mission accomplished for them once the doom revolution was started, and they may have felt like they had nothing more to give to the metal world...