Consecrator - Image of Deception

Band Consecrator
Album Image of Deception
Genre Thrash metal
Label Bombworks Records
Year of release 2004
Line-up Glenn Johnson (vocals, bass)
Ashley Lawhon (drums)
James Chaves (guitars)
Steve Tidwell (guitars)
Tracklist:

Image of Deception:
1. Submission
2. Image of Deception
3. Mindlessly Betrayed
4. Vision Ignored
5. Sayings of the Wise
6. Free From Death

Consecrator:
7. Make Me Laugh
8. Satan Lies
9. Saving Song
10. Messiah Calls
11. Troubled Years
12. Casted


I absolutely can't believe why this cd wasn't released before. This re-issue contains 2 demos, called Image of Deception which was released in 1992 and the other even older, which was called Consecrator, but the cd doesn't say when it was released. So it took about 12 years before these songs found their way to an official release! You can clearly hear in what period this music was written, highly influenced by Believer this is the typical Thrash metal you hear from those years. Fast and agressive drums and guitars, agressive vocals, and all sounding very technical, totally awesome. And ofcourse lots of fast guitarsolos, making it hard to sit still while listening this cd. Since the music is taken from pretty old records, the soundquality is not very good everywhere. The Image of Deception demo has decent soundquality, no problem at all with that. But the selftitled-demo has a much less decent soundquality, so I like the Image of Deception part much better. From the selftitled-demo the last song, called Casted is worth mentioning though, beginning very slow with a very deep voice before the agressive Thrash starts again like on the rest of this cd. Overall a very decent cd, if you want to hear nice Thrash from the good old days, you can't miss this reissue.
Review by Max (July 15 - 2004)