Redrum - Power Corrupts CD Review

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2007-06-23 : mvp
We did what we could to please the label and our fans. I funded the first release of this CD and there would be no RE-RELEASE if there was not the original release! GO FIGURE duh..... So I still wait for my performance royalty check as the fat get fatter and the artist gets ignored! Thanks for the wicked support from the ORIGINAL REDRUM!
fuck VONNI and all of his I did this for so and so bullshit! What a baby, don't you need to go to where ever your folks are living to LEACH off of them for another while? Where is my sCRAP book?
VONNI GROCCIA - U suck
thanks for the recognition dude!
MVP
2007-04-25 : Big mouth : Link
REDRUM
Power Corrupts
(Shadow Kingdom Records)
Finally this 1992 album gets a proper re-release via Shadow Kingdom (formerly Evil Legend) as not only you’ll get a detailed booklet (and some killer layout!) but most of all seven tracks as bonus to the original 12 songs from “Power Corrupts”. REDRUM were a pure Speed/ Thrash band (and not some speedy Heavy Metal labelled as Thrash) mostly influenced by EXODUS and also by a tiny Bay Area Power Metal act known as METALLICA. When the band recorded this first album, they had slowed down their approach a good deal comparing to their early efforts from 1985 and 1987 so it takes a few songs before REDRUM really shows what they were capable of delivering as the first batch of songs are just okay but nothing special at all type material as the band had a quite large catalogue to choose from when “P.C.” was recorded and unfortunately a lot of their classic early tunes were not part of the trip. So it’s definitively a great thing to have included four live songs -taken from their August ’87 gig when they supported KING DIAMOND and TROUBLE- all being shinning examples of what REDRUM were able to deliver at their best (stuff that was used on the famous “Power Corrupts” ’87 demo) and also three live numbers captured during late ’85 which showcase a demonic REDRUM, full speed ahead delivering a mixture of EXODUS/ SLAYER material (as opposed to the EXODUS/ METALLICA approach from their later days), I mean you can’t stay indifferent hearing “Fear No Evil” (A hell of a tune here!!! PURE THRASHING), “Sick Pleasures”, “Blood Sucking Freaks” or even “Bloody Mary” (’87) and wonder why this band never received the same treatment Bay Area combos such as VIO-LENCE or SACRILEGE (BC) etc… were getting around the same time! From the album itself, there’s a bunch of intense tunes such as “Commando”, “Power Corrupts”, “World War III”, “Into The Ovens” (mid paced intense driving shit!) or “Random Violence”, but I can’t help and think that the album would have been a top notch one if the band had made a better choice regarding the final songlist… (8)
L.R.