Ticket To Hell - Man Made Paradise

\r\n   What can I say about this album!! From the very first notes "Man Made Paradise" has no other goal than to grab you by the hair, bang your head against the nearest wall and spill your blood all over the place! I got so thrilled from the very first hearing that I didn’t start this review with the usual way.
\r\n   Of course you want me to introduce you this band and I better do that because Ticket To Hell really deserve your awareness and attention. Well, first of all this is a one man band led by a Mexican named Jacobo Cordova. Mr Cordova is involved in the metal scene for more than 10 years playing and touring with Antiqua and Project Firestart before he decided to dedicate himself to his two solo projects, Majestic Downfall and Ticket To Hell. "Man Made Paradise" is the latters first full length album and Jacobo Cordova doesn’t only play all instruments, except some "destructive guitar solos" delivered by the former bassist of Antiqua, Cesar Tarello, but he has also the responsibility for everything that has to do with the sound.
\r\n   Advancing to the album, "Man Made Paradise" delivers a mixture between classically oriented 08’s thrash metal and 90’s Swedish Death Metal. With references to Destruction, Slayer, The Haunted and even Testament from their latest releases and with the slogan total destruction, "Man Made Paradise" is nothing more or less that a total destruction and a shameless devastation within 8 songs. With a stakkato thrash riffing and a double bass thunderstorm that roar properly beside the harsh and angry voice of the mastermind Jacobo, this album breathes full of extreme aggression and a fast paced rhythm that rarely slows down and a slight melody that slides underneath. The sound is raw and blunt the way it should be, the guitars dirty and sawing yet with a melodic touch and the solos breathing with an interior vitality while the brassy percussion supplements the otherwise quite dark sound of the album with a brighter note and contributes to its general musical coherence.
\r\n   Of course there is little diversion in the compositions or originality for that matter but the aura, the feeling and the vibe of the album are so thick, so devastating and so powerfull that I don’t think that there will be any dedicated fan of thrash metal who won’t find this album to his liking. So find it and grab it at once. \r\n

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