Awake the Riot

I loved Dust Bolt's debut, and I waited with extreme anticipation for their follow up.I loved every song on "Violent Demolition," and I usually listen to it from start to finish. However with this album I find myself skipping over a couple of songs, and no matter how hard I try I can't get into them. To me, it kind of feels like the German 4 piece went in favor of listener accessibility over aggression in certain spots.I must admit though, this also worked in the guys favor in huge ways at times, notable examples off the top of my head being "Soul Erazor," "Eternal Waste," "Living a Lie," and "You Lost Sight." These songs, among others, had riffs and guitar leads I had to hear over and over again because of how "ear-catching" I thought they sounded, and then other songs had parts where I couldn't keep my head still from headbanging. Yet, there are songs where I only refer to them by track number because I never bothered to learn their names.Really my complaints are little things. Sometimes it felt like they were trying to make a riff catchy that really wasn't, then a part that really was catchy only gets played twice. Other times a tempo change will feel out of place, yet this doesn't happen often, and usually only at the end of a song.The lyrics are all rather forgetable to me, with all of them seeming to be about war, death, or revolution, or something along those lines. I guess it's good that this genre's main focus is the music. Lyrics are definitely this band's, (as well as many other thrash bands) weakest area of songwriting.It's a decent effort and a great showcase of this band's talent and hard work, because you cant play stuff like this live without practicing hour upon hour.

Great thrash metal cd. For fans of anthrax exodus to lamb of god

You DO NOT find many new bands who have an old-skool thrash sound like Dust Bolt has. Killer riff followed by killer riff. If you like killer thrash bands, Dust Bolt is what you're looking for. This album is the real deal. Just like their first album Violent Demolition. Pick them both up. Enjoy!

Awesome group, they have that old school thrash feeling to them. you can hear influences in their music from bands like Sepultura, and Death. If you like thrash, get yourself some DUST BOLT!!!

Dust Bolt really rocks!

good thrash metal album

man I dig these guys. they got some bite. good thrash from some young'uns,from foreign shores.

Right in your face THRASH METAL!!!

These guys are German and are another newish band that has threw their tuppence into the already saturated Thrash Metal Landscape, but I like them, they play a style of thrash thats not unlike Hexen or Havok, in other words don't be looking for originality or anything that's remotely outside the box because you aint finding it here, nonetheless Awake the Riot is very enjoyable , in fact its impressive, there is a level of detail to the riffage that shows a maturity beyond the bands "newish status" and showcases a learning curve that they are starting to get comfortable and experienced at this game, drums and singing are all at a nice level and the CD has that "grab hold" effect at times with some serious passages of riffs (a major plus point that is lost on many bands today). All in all Dust Bolt are as good as any modern straightforward thrash acts of today, not bad at all.....................

Vacilón de entrada pero no aporta nada a la escena. Hay muchos grupos en la nueva ola del Thrash Metal... y muchos de ellos bastante mejores. Te distraerá durante algunas escuchas... pero poco más.

Very good album

Von den Jungs wird man mit Sicherheit noch hören! Ursprünglich war der Erwerb dieser Scheibe eher eine Verlegenheit um den virtuellen Einkaufswagen voll zu bekommen. Nachdem aber bereits das Vorgängeralbum ein Kracher war und auch der Liveauftritt der Combo vollends überzeugte, konnte ich nahezu ausschließen, mich vergriffen zu haben. Schön, dass ich mich hier bestätigen konnte! ;-)Schöner, schneller Trash... Einfach gut!

Gelungenes Oldschool- Thrash- Meisterwerk.Wer auf die alten Riffs von Slayer,Sepultura oder Kreator steht ,ist hier sehr gut mit beraten.Top Thrash made in Germany .