Homicide - Le� For Dead (Self-Release) Review by Steve Thomas-Green Montreal Thrashers, Homicide are back, 25 years a�er their last album, Malice and Forethought. And 25 years away obviously hasn’t mellowed them… thankfully. Now, this is one of those albums that at the beginning, be it that the music and vocals don’t quite gel, or maybe things are a bit too simplis�c, it just fits into the “ok” category. And a�er that, I don’t know if it’s my ears adjus�ng to their sound, or maybe the album does genuinely get be�er… but things, as I’ve already indicated, do get remarkably be�er. Not that I dislike the first couple of tracks, they just don’t blowme away. The tough guy / vitriolic start of track 3, the �tle track, signals the start of the improvement, especially with the metronomic riffing and the more intense vocals. Personally, I would have started the albumwith this track… as it sort of takes me back to Machine Head’s Burn My Eyes and it feels like an album opener… like a statement of intent. That’s followed by Enemy of the State whose beginning sounds like Suicidal Tendencies, circa We Call This Mutha Revenge and to a lesser degree, You Can't Bring Me Down, before morphing into some classic, dandruff shaking Thrash. The album isn’t perfect, but it has a lot of classic touches and it does hark back to the 80s, which is fine by me. So there’s a lot to like here and I hope the band can build from this, as their reforma�on is showing some of the youngsters how things should be done. h�ps://www.facebook.com/homicidemontreal/
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