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| | In Search of Sanity | | | Music Artist : | | Onslaught | | Music Style : | | Thrash & Speed Metal | | Record Label : | | Polygram Records | | Release Date : | | 1989-08-22 | | Store Price : | | $11.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $11.98 | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Asylum
2. In Search of Sanity
3. Shellshock
4. Lightning War
5. Let There Be Rock
6. Blood Upon the Ice
7. Welcome to Dying
8. Powerplay
9. Confused
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 GOOD ONSLAUGHT ALBUM
Submitted on: 2009-02-01 |
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| THE grim reaper VOCALIST in this album its pretty good. let there be rock its the best song on this album, but its not their best album. I would go with "killing peace" as their best. The satanic verses are not my pet-peeve, and i think without the satanic verses, they would be more popular. if you are an ONSLAUGHT FAN, this album should be in your collection. |
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 Onslaught - 'In Search Of Sanity' (Blackened Records)
Submitted on: 2008-07-16 |
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| I remember this late '80's metal release, believe it featured former Grim Reaper vocalist / frontman Steve Grimmett (one of hell's true rejects - keep in mind he's on this Onslaught record only). Tunes here I got the most out of were the title track "In Search For Sanity", the in-your-face "Lightning War", their decent cover of AC/DC's anthem "Let There Be Rock" and "Welcome To Dying". Might draw in fans of Celtic Frost, Possessed, King Diamond and Cryptic Slaughter {have always loved that name}. Not bad at all. |
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 Power Play
Submitted on: 2007-01-14 |
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I have owned this disk since 1990, and I must say it's an excellent choice. Steve Grimmet(ex-Grim Reaper front man) is at some of his best here. Rob Trotman and Nige Rockett do some sweet guitar on this. The first "song" is not really a song at all, but 5+ minutes of sound effects. This kind of stuff you can play on Halloween to scare the kids. The rest of the disk is solid. Good fret work, solid timings, and some edge to those guitars. There are covers of AC/DC's Let there be Rock and Angel Witch's Confused(both done real well), but the center piece is the 12+ minute long epic Welcome to Dying. A song that I think is about someone on life support. Sheer metal offerings here.
Now, I have not heard the remaster. But on the original there was a mixing issue. The drums are entirely too loud. They drowned out most of the bass guitar and sits on top of the rest of the music a bit. I had my CD player running through an EQ for a while to bring the guitars back up to par, but in the end it didn't sound right that way. I got used to the mix eventually. Not really a bad thing, but slightly annoying, might be fixed on remaster. |
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Onslaught : "In Search Of Sanity"
Submitted on: 2004-04-02 |
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Excellent. A Masterpiece.
This sounds like early day Metallica. The riffs are incredible, and the crunch is some of the best I've heard since the days of "Killem All" and "Ride The Lightning"....
Ex- Grim Reaper vocalist S. Grimmet makes this release extra special. He's got a perfect voice for this kind of music, and this is the only release he did with Onslaught. I don't know what this would sound like without him. I think he's great...
The guitars are melodic, and very catchy. The overall sound is very old-school, and it's great to hear Onslaught putting forth this kind of effort. It's a mixture between 80's Metallica riffs, and 80's Maiden vocals IMO....
You wont be disappointed. This was one of the strongets Thrash Metal releases when it came out. It's unfortunate it didn't get the praise it highly deserves. Songs like "Shellshock", "Blood Upon The Ice", and "Blitzkrieg" are incredible... |
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Excellent 80's Thrash Metal
Submitted on: 2003-12-21 |
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I followed Onslaught in the 80's after picking up their excellent 2nd album The Force. This was their 3rd and major label debut and it shows with the leap in sound quality. What I like about them is the endless crunchy riffing and the excellent singers they had on both albums, it is great when you can make out the words with this kind of music, I dont really want to hear constant roaring down the mike. I remember this album didnt go down too well with their fans as they left their satantic roots behind and went for a more polished Metallica type sound, but then I remember the same astonishingly happened Metallica with Ride The Lightning. I didnt mind one bit as what you got here is about 40 mins of well produced and mixed speed/power/thrash metal, the sound of the album is excellent, like a more polished Master Of Puppets. This is forgetting about the 5 min intro, the cover of Let There Be Rock which is competent but boring and last song which seems to be some kind of poor quality sounding add on track.
The music is powerful, riff laden and very heavy and as was with The Force each song is 6 min plus. If you like early Metallica, Exodus and Megadeth then you should get this |
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