Listening to Exodus on Fabulous Disaster is an interesting experience, especially when trying to compare styles of bands of similar vintage. Metallica and Megadeth, for instance, released what I would term very serious metal albums – … And Justice For All and Rust In Peace. Both great albums, and both very serious musically and lyrically.
Fabulous Disaster is another great album, but to me very different from those two albums. With multi-tracked choruses enticing you to sing along in a group anthemic way, and lead singer Steve Souza very bouncy in his lyrics, especially in songs like “Fabulous Disaster” and “Toxic Waltz”, it reminds me of (a much heavier) Quiet Riot of the early 1980’s.
I love the way this album seems to build as it moves along. The early songs on the album such as “The Last Act Of Defiance”, and from there we build into a forceful middle and a slamming end to the disc. It’s easy to see where Australian 80’s metal bands like Mortal Sin and Frozen Doberman got their inspiration from – it’s pretty much all here on this album.
Favourites here for me include “The Last Act Of Defiance”, “Verbal Razors”, “Open Season” and “Overdose”
Rating: Still gets better with every listen. 4/5.
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