{"id":41920,"date":"2010-03-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/independent-reissue\/"},"modified":"2010-03-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T00:00:00","slug":"independent-reissue","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/independent-reissue\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent (reissue)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt\">They need to make a movie called <i>Sacred Reich: The Story of Sacred Reich<\/i> so that more people in the world know about this thrash metal band. They have never received the recognition or accolades that other thrash bands have gotten. <i>Independent<\/i> was released in 1993 and this rerelease adds five tracks you could only previously obtain from one of their EPs. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt\">Absorbing vocalist\/bassist Phil Rind\u2019s lyrics still requires work. Songs like \u201cWho\u2019s To Blame\u201d point a finger at parents who do not do more to be involved in their child\u2019s life. On this track, Rind describes \u201cJohnny\u201d who liked \u201cOzzy, Judas Priest\u201d and who wouldn\u2019t open the door to his bedroom. The story continues until Johnny is found dead in his room. Death was also on Rind\u2019s mind when he wrote the chilling pseudo-ballad \u201cI Never Said Goodbye\u201d about a life being taken from this world too soon. Personally, I have been a witness in the last couple of weeks to a mother grieving for her teenage daughter\u2019s unexpected death. I feel a strong connection with the lyrics of this song. Rind sings these words soulfully over a simpler guitar riff, which allows the words to be more powerful because your attention is not diverted to the music as he sings \u201cAll of a sudden you were taken \/ Now you\u2019re gone \/ I\u2019m afraid it\u2019s much too late \/ you\u2019ve been taken away.\u201d <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt\">When you do begin to pay attention to the instrumentation, you find some exceptional thrash metal, especially the drumming from Dave McClain. Listening to the tight rhythms of the double bass that follow guitarists Wiley Arnett and Jason Rainey is magical. It happens multiple times in multiple songs, including the bonus track \u201cA Question\u201d and opener \u201cIndependent\u201d. The acoustic instrumental \u201cIf Only\u201d serves as a fantastic intro to \u201cCrawling,\u201d which was released as a single. The tempo is slow and dirty during this track with lots of thrash guitars. This track initially drew me into this band seven years ago. With this rerelease, there is a radio version of \u201cCrawling\u201d and other songs that were released on EPs. Radio stations that are around me still wouldn\u2019t touch \u201cCrawling,\u201d even with the radio edit version. The starts and stops during \u201cFree\u201d are also noteworthy, as the music pauses just prior to the guitar solo. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt\">Sacred Reich has always been a thrash band that has released interesting material. This release has aged gracefully since its original release. It was an impressive thrash metal disc then and it is an impressive metal disc today. There are no filler tracks and the addition of the bonus cuts is a welcome addition to the release.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8545],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-41920","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-sacred-reich","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41920"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}