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Power Trip - Nightmare Logic Before I say anything about this album, I wanted to make something clear -- this isn’t really a “review,” per se. Just like my Metallica series that I did this past week, where I went through their first five albums, or my Eagles review, where I talked about their greatest hits albums, they weren’t really reviews, but more so retrospective pieces that talked about why these albums and bands are important to me, as well as many other people. These albums are something special, and they’re still worth celebrating all of these years later, so I wanted to write about them, only to talk about their influence as a whole, as well as on me personally. Power Trip’s sophomore album, 2017′s Nightmare Logic, is going to be the same way. This is a record that is still to this day a powerhouse of thrash metal and crossover hardcore, and it’s an influential record to a lot of people, as well as metal and heavy music as a whole. This is a record that defined 2010s thrash, and it still does today, especially with vocalist Riley Gale’s untimely passing a couple of years ago. The album just turned 5 this year, back in February, so I wanted to write something about it, because I have a very interesting history with this band and album, so I wanted to talk about that in more detail. To start off my thoughts on this record, we need to go back to when it came out, at least a little beforehand. I didn’t hear of this band, like many people, until this record came out, but the Texas thrash band has been kicking since the early 00s, including releasing some EPs and 2013′s Manifest Decimation, which is another kickass album that’s worth hearing. Nightmare Logic is the first album a lot of people heard from these guys, myself included, but I wasn’t too huge into thrash metal at the time this album came out. I liked it, don’t get me wrong, and I loved the Big Four, including Slayer, Metallica, Megadeth,a nd Anthrax, but I didn’t listen to the genre in any more depth. I don’t know if it’s where I just wasn’t into the genre’s faster and breakneck speed, or the punky and hardcore foundations of the genre, but I didn’t care for it as much as traditional heavy metal or death metal. Nowadays, I’d consider thrash to be my favorite style of metal, including traditional heavy metal and the NWOBHM scene of the early 80s, but I didn’t care for it much back about five years ago. I heard a lot of buzz for this album, and when I heard it, I didn’t care for it much, either. I remember writing in my original review of it that the album just sounded generic, and it was trying too hard to sound like it came out of the 1980s, which is funnily enough something I love about it now, so I didn’t really get the hype at first. At the same time, thrash metal was going through a bit of a resurgence. Bands like Municipal Waste, Havok, Warbringer, Toxic Holocaust, and many other acts were starting to push through into the forefront of the metal world, so people were starting to take notice that thrash metal is back. Power Trip was another one of those bands, and they really took metal by storm, but it took me awhile to see the appeal and fall in love with this record. I kept going back to the album over time, and by the end of the year, it was one of my favorites of the year. I really ended up growing on the album, and this record ended up doing a lot for me, but it wasn’t for a couple of years that I’d end up really falling for it and considering it one of my favorite albums of all time. Nightmare Logic is the perfect thrash album in every sense of the word. That’s why I love this album so much, especially where it definitely comes from a classic and nostalgic place, yet at the same time, it feels fresh, youthful, and exciting. I’m pretty sure the band was only in their early to mid-20s when they made this record, because Riley Gale was 34 when he passed in 2020, and this album came out five years ago, but you can hear their youthful energy throughout its 33-minute runtime. I mean, just listen to “Executioner’s Tax (Swing Of The Axe)” and you can get a good idea of what to expect from this album. It’s fast, intense, and menacing, but also fun, catchy, and impressively performed and produced. It’s a quick little thrash / crossover rager that really sets the tone for the album, even though opener “Soul Sacrifice” does that pretty well. My issue with a lot of modern thrash bands is that they want to pay homage to the 80s Bay Area scene, but at the same time, they don’t do anything to stand above it, or add anything to it. Power Trip does, even if it’s not necessarily originality. This is the kind of album that sounds like a long forgotten and underrated 80s thrash classic, even down to its production, and it’s great. If you haven’t heard this album yet, and you’re a thrash fan, you owe it to yourself to check this out. Most people already have, though, and this is just a good excuse to blast it loud and proud. There’s no wrong time to listen to Nightmare Logic, it’s one of the best thrash albums of all time, as well as one of my favorite albums, personally. This is easily one of my all time favorites, too, I just love this album and I can’t get enough of it. Five years later, I still play this album regularly, and I fall in love with it over again each time I do. It was a horrible tragedy when Riley passed away, because he’s one of the best vocalists in all of metal. Just like Trevor Strnad from The Black Dahlia Murder, there will never be anyone like them, and it’s still felt among the metal world to this day. It’s great that these records do exist, so we can listen to his voice whenever we want, and his legacy will never be forgotten. I can’t wait for another five years, because when this album turns ten, that’s when it’ll be a certified modern classic. I can’t wait for the ten-year retrospectives on the album, because they’re all going to be overly positive and for good reason -- this is one of the best albums ever made. Rest In Power Riley Gale

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Essential Sounds for Weird Kids- Power Trip- Manifest Decimation

The metal community has been lesser for losing Riley Gale. Two years gone, and his material sounds as good as ever.

I still come back to both of their LPs and embrace their incredible sound often, which is as perfect of a mix between thrash, death metal and hardcore as can be done. It’s sad that we’ll never get to see what he had in store for LP 3, but at least his legacy will never die.

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