NIGHTMARE LOGIC | POWER TRIP

5.2.17 Hailing from within the Bible belt, Dallas, Power Trip definitely has much to dissent from. 

The heavy metal lure was sunk into my young teenage cheek in the early 80s. In recent decades I have not been as drawn to the sounds of metal thrash especially the bands with monster-like inaudible vocals. Occasionally I come across records such as Nightmare Logic and I think, genre-schmenre this just plain kicks ass. I am no metal-head aficionado but I would say this is the best of its kind. It’s precise without being lifeless. Steady without being redundant. Simply put Nightmare Logic is confident unapologetic heavy-fuckin metal! And you can kinda hear the lyrics.

Pitchfork review by Zoe Camp: Thrash has always been a goofy genre with a morbid sense of humor: a direct consequence of the genre’s primordial days in the Reagan era, when trolling the silent majority doubled as a pre-eminent past-time and a form of protest. Like their peers Iron Reagan and Skeletonwitch, Power Trip view the impending apocalypse as a cause for celebration, powered by schadenfreude. Evangelical Christians are treated to particularly hilarious roastings. . . .