Open Fire

Alabama Thunder Pussy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 6, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Relapse
• ASIN: B000MR9C5A
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,358 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent Metal But Not Fulton Hill, December 27, 2007

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Dennis G. Voss Jr. (Lexington, KY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Open Fire (Audio CD)

ATP's Fulton Hill is one of my favorite albums and I am fond of my Exhorder CD's, so maybe I came to Open Fire with excessively high expectations, but it didn't deliver what I liked about either group. It does not revisit the Sabbath-in-Alabama boogie metal of early ATP, let alone the astonishing variety of Fulton Hill. Nor does it deliver the rhythm-driven, pre-Pantera metal of Exhorder. And forget about the fabulous marriage of the two that I imagined (which on reflection probably sounded a lot like Down's first album). The music is more like what you would expect from the artwork: theatrical metal mixing gravelly vocals with screams that at times edge a little too close to the 80s (perhaps because they are layered?). Sorta like Judas Priest after simmering it for two decades and adding a dash of the U.S. South. The guitar work is still impressive and some of the songs have catchy riffs and/or catchy melodies, so I'm sure I'll pop Open Fire into the CD player every once in a while to keep from burning out on my other ATP discs, but it's far from the high point of their catalogue.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Johnny please come back!, August 4, 2008

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repeater - See all my reviews

This review is from: Open Fire (Audio CD)

Maybe now that Johnny Throckmorton has left Immortal Avenger he can come back to ATP. Then they can stop jerking around with new singers and screwing up their sound. I just can't get into this album. Oh well, I never get tired of listening to Staring at the Divine

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite album of 2007, August 29, 2007

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Jon Gunter (Greensboro, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Open Fire (Audio CD)

First off, I completely went into this album knowing that Johnny Weils had been replaced with Kyle Thomas, former singer of legendary metal band Exhorder (you know, the ones that Pantera bit all of their style from). Anyways, I had high hopes for this album and ATP followed through and then some. I got to experience most of these songs live on their tour down to SXSW this past Spring 2007 and was blown away. Luckily, the album release date had already passed and I picked it up from their show.

Back to the ATP album: it rages! The songwriting on this album is what has really kept this album in heavy rotation for me. Choruses tend to nudge their way into your brain, especially the chorus to 'Void of Harmony.' I knew that Kyle could sing, but goddamn, he hits Rob Halford range on some songs (one of the ending notes of 'Words of the Dying Man' cracked my rear-view mirror... not really). His vocal lines run impeccably with the music and the band just sounds so much more cohesive as a unit since bringing him into the fold.

I will share one thing with you that upsets me a bit about this album: Relapse Records could really get behind this release and push the hell out of it and get 'Words of the Dying Man' more airplay and, in turn, ATP some more commercial coverage. I don't give a damn who you are, if you are a performing musician trying to make a living off of your craft and you are proud of what you've done musically, you want to see your band have some type of commercial success. Kyle's former band Exhorder had their style bit by Pantera and look who ended up blowing up from all that (the biters). I just hope that ATP get the success they deserve for being hard-working musicians. Buy this album! You won't regret your purchase if you like dirty Southern rock-n-roll/metal.