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Thursday, January 22: Anacrusis, "Sense of Will"

Anacrusis was right there during the early days of progressive thrash, but Screams and Whispers illustrated the breadth of Pantera’s impact as “Sense of Will” added some groove to go with Kenn Nardi’s lower and raspier (but not death) vocals. It was still techy and pretty cool even with the cheap production, and with an awesome solo to boot. It was too bad that Anacrusis broke up shortly after Screams and Whispers- even if the tides were quickly turning against metal “Sense of Will” had presence and showed they had real command of their sound.

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Anacrusis: Screams and Whispers (1993)

Some have argued (possibly myself, at some point in time) that St. Louis, Missouri’s Anacrusis achieved a personal pinnacle in cerebral progressive thrash with their third LP, 1991’s Manic Impressions.

But a recent, multi-spin reacquaintance with the album, right here on VinylSpinning, left me surprisingly unimpressed and, worse, emotionally unmoved by a cold, clinical batch of songs: all brains, some muscle (this is heavy metal, after all), but no real heart.

In retrospect, it seems to me that guitarist Kevin Heidbreder, bassist John Emery, drummer Paul Miles, and especially vocalist, guitarist, chief songwriter AND producer Kenn Nardi, were outsmarting themselves into oblivion -- victims of their own self-sufficient insularity.

But Anacrusis had one last chance to correct this situation, 30 years ago, when they delivered their fourth and ultimately final album, Screams and Whispers, which, though it couldn’t ultimately save the band from breaking up not long after its release, found some redemption in these songs.

Quite a bit, in fact, as new progressive thrash standouts such as “Sound the Alarm,” “Sense of Will,” and “My Soul’s Affliction,” renewed the group’s tenuous compositional truce between complexity and accessibility, melody and dissonance, bold experimentation and plain common sense.

Even the jarring, horn-like synthesizers (the likes of which were favored by many ‘80s glam rock bands, ironically enough) that intrude upon daring creations like “Tools of Separation,” “Grateful,” and the excellent “Too Many Prophets,” are ultimately an acquired taste worth acquiring.

If only some forgettable fare like “Division,” “A Screaming Breath,” and the closing “Brotherhood?” (which drags on far too long, repeating those same blaring synths) hadn’t spoiled the bunch, Screams and Whispers would have been considered a formidable swan song.

Or, better still, it wouldn’t have been a swan song.

But, by any stretch, it was a considerable improvement over the disappointing Manic Impressions, and when Anacrusis decided to go their separate ways there was certainly no doubting the strength (or should I say ‘stubbornness’) of their musical vision and professional conviction -- right or wrong.

More Anacrusis: Suffering Hour, Reason, Manic Impressions.