The Prophecy²³
Untrue Like a Boss

The third album by The Prophecy23 since 2010, and it has the same cool type of cover art signed by the comic artist Marvin Clifford. So it looks exciting and looking at the song titles it appears even more exciting from the get go. Their earlier album has been good but nothing too exciting or dramatic. I have to wonder wether or not this album, is a change from that routine we have seen from these guys so far.

Thrash metal with a touch of humour and a lot of power. It is nothing else but that, they alter vocals between death vocals and thrash style vocals, quite a dynamic in that regard. Nothing earth shattering when it comes to the novelty of the album, there is more freshness in the cover art and the song titles than it is in the songs themselves. The production and sound is good, modern and powerful but so is it for many bands in the genre so they don’t really do anything different there. Arriba Abajo some traditional song in spanish is a cool addition and a bit of break from conventions but it is the ending bonus track so it kind gets unnoticed as it should not be considered part of the full album that plays for around 40 minutes on fourteen tracks if you count said bonus track.

The two previous albums I have heard from this band has as I stated earlier, been good albums but nothing that really grabs you and catches your attention. Other than the cover art, that is. And it is the same story here. They carry on walking down the same path as they have with the two previous albums and the songs here could just as well have been from one of the previous album, that strong is the similitude. This is of course not quite a positive, but the album itself is good enough to render it a good album but no more than that. In a way they are kind of disappointing, they just don’t shine the way their song titles and their cover arts suggests, they are a fairly ordinary modern thrash metal band in a little nicer package.

I can’t say that I think any of the songs stand out for me, they are good thrash songs but none of them is excellent or attention grabbing. Well, the ending bonus track sort of is but as I stated before, you cannot really count that as the band doesn’t really see it as part of the album (why else would they dub it a bonus track). I think that this album will mostly appeal to their fans and to fans of the genre as well as all those web reviewers who always give super high ratings to any ordinary album they can find, but for me and for the general public I doubt it will make any significant impact.

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