Massive Aggressive

Municipal Waste | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 25, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Earache Records
• ASIN: B002HMHXMM
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #35,506 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

2009 album from the Virginia-based Thrash revivalists. 'Harder, faster and louder' is the perfect description of Massive Aggressive. Building on the now-classic Hazardous Mutation and The Art Of Partying, Municipal Waste have crafted the bottom line in crossover Thrash and Speed Metal, banishing comparisons of old by becoming the pinnacle of their genre and releasing the essential all-round Metal release of 2009! With Massive Aggressive, MW have upped the ante and pushed crossover Thrash to its ultimate limit.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars RADDDDD!!!!!!!!, September 24, 2009

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R. Mayoral-Parracia "The Dude" (Miami) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Massive Aggressive (Audio CD)

This album kicks ass, the other reviewer Sam doesnt know what the fok he is talking about. Awesome riffs, some great 2-step beats, good throwbacks to early thrash. I don't know how any one couldn't like this album. That kid must have been breast fed speed or something to say this is too slow. This has about the same pace as the other MW albums, so don't be deterred, I almost did but followed my gut anyways and I'm happy with my buy.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars new ERA of thrash, May 10, 2010

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Deimos "." (Alberta) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Massive Aggressive (Audio CD)

This is an excellent album from a truly great new era thrash band. I said new era not nu. This is the real deal, pure thrash no posers like Bullet for My Valentine and As I lay Dying. Amazing riffs, killer vox and just the classic thrash sound we all love, excellent job. \m/

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4.0 out of 5 stars Massive Impressive, March 15, 2010

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Nicholas Alla Koholick "anonymousnick2001" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Massive Aggressive (Audio CD)

At first listen, the latest album by Municipal Waste is same old, same old. The band knows their '80s crossover revival is a huge hit with modern fans of hardcore punk mixed with thrash metal at intensely high speeds for insanely short song lengths. Crossover is a dying art, and the Waste deliver their hardest to keep it alive. Listening to them is like shot-gunning a two-liter of Monster Java through the nose.

Massive Aggressive is another notch in a beer and blood stained belt for the Virginia four-piece. The new album predictably delivers the goods, business-as-usual: all the songs are roughly two minutes in length, sounding like Thrash Zone-era D.R.I. meets early Cro-Mags with updated crisp production values. However, the band understood what made their last disc, The Art of Partying grow staler than three-week old lukewarm Keystone Ice -- a lack of variety and maybe even inspiration. Every song on that album was an ode to beer. So, the new album does away with the repetition, and brings the party through action and not description.

"Divine Blasphemer" features an Iron Maiden type twin guitar solo at the end, "Upside Down Church" kicks off with a Biohazard-inspired mosh riff and "Acid Sentence" slows down to a mid-tempo groove for a New York hardcore-styled middle break that initiates immediate headbanging. A huge focus on melody re-energizes the band's breakneck riffs, and glimpses of `actual' songwriting, from key changes to varied riffing styles drawing more from the punk side than the metal side of their musical equation ... all provide evidence that Municipal Waste choose to remain relevant, even if filling a well-established niche with little in the way of competition.

Singer Tony Foresta still sounds exactly like D.R.I.'s Kurt Brecht, and the rhythm section retains its signature tightness. Massive Aggressive is exactly what its title promises, and is a severe return to form for the cheesiest, most energetic and fun band in punk or metal these days. They have a song called "Wolves in Chernobyl," and that's the chorus for crying out loud. And "Horny for Blood"? "The Wrath of the Severed Head"?