Neurotoxin - V.S.L.
Prison Shank Records - Unknown - Unknown
By Simon Douglass
Neurotoxin hail from southern California and use their own label, known as Prison Shank Records to release their music. V.S.L. is the bands second release after their debut album Harvest Your Wrath was released in 2004.
'Degenerate' opens the album with a rather tiresome and nothing riff which trundles along throughout the track. The rest of the album follows suit and in the end it becomes very boring and a struggle to listen to. It doesn't help matters when the vocals are sung in dull and lifeless tone.
The eight plus minutes that is 'Ghostly Confessor' just drags on and on without really going anywhere, but it could be half that length and you would still feel the same way. When eventually it does pick up in the last 90 seconds, you'll either have missed it because you don't have the patience to have sat through the rest of the album or if you do, you'll wonder why the rest of the album can't be like this.
After listening to V.S.L. it's clear why they have to release their albums on their own label, they're just not very good. V.S.L. might only be four tracks longs but even in that time the band sound repetitive and lacking in ideas. It's thrash which is slow and boring.
Official Neurotoxin Website
Prison Shank Records - Unknown - Unknown
By Simon Douglass
Neurotoxin hail from southern California and use their own label, known as Prison Shank Records to release their music. V.S.L. is the bands second release after their debut album Harvest Your Wrath was released in 2004.
'Degenerate' opens the album with a rather tiresome and nothing riff which trundles along throughout the track. The rest of the album follows suit and in the end it becomes very boring and a struggle to listen to. It doesn't help matters when the vocals are sung in dull and lifeless tone.
The eight plus minutes that is 'Ghostly Confessor' just drags on and on without really going anywhere, but it could be half that length and you would still feel the same way. When eventually it does pick up in the last 90 seconds, you'll either have missed it because you don't have the patience to have sat through the rest of the album or if you do, you'll wonder why the rest of the album can't be like this.
After listening to V.S.L. it's clear why they have to release their albums on their own label, they're just not very good. V.S.L. might only be four tracks longs but even in that time the band sound repetitive and lacking in ideas. It's thrash which is slow and boring.
Official Neurotoxin Website
