Power Trip "Executioner's Tax (Swing of the Axe)"

Warning: very heavy!

I've heard Power Trip's name over and over throughout 2017. Their sophomore album "Nightmare Logic" has be accumulating quite the response. I finally gave it a shot this morning ...I'm now listening to it on vinyl. I had to buy it. After one full listen of this thing I see why it's getting all the praise. This thing is gnarly!

Power Trip is a thrash metal band from Dallas, TX, on a mission to obliterate your ears. "Nightmare Logic" is only their second full length album over an almost 10 year span. I have yet to listen to their debut, "Manifest Decimation" but I definitely plan on it once I wear this thing out.

You know the one or two songs that really stick out to you upon first listen of a new album. Well on "Nightmare Logic" it was and still is the second song "Executioner's Tax (Swing of the Axe)". It's got this long chug after the power intro that I still can't get enough of. Later Riley Gale, shouts with all of his bandmates "SWING OF THE AXE" in the fashion of Metallica's "Jump in the Fire". It's absolutely bonkers.



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