Description

After All from Bruges in Belgium has become best known for their original take on speed metal song writing. But before the band started playing thrash metal, they were a hard rock band. Their third full-length album, Dead Loss, still borders on heavy metal while rocking on. Erase Your Past is basically gothic rock, around the same time as Tiamat went full-on doing exactly that, and at other times sounding like a band that was heavily influenced by more metallic grunge bands, dragging those influences for a decade; this came out a bit too late when considering the grunge explosion of early 1990s. However, the gothic thing is soon dropped, as it is time for other things. Some nastier songs that contain more Black Sabbathy riffing (e.g. Condemned Heritage and Lost/Insane). Desert rocking Reflection Of The Light is filled with Kyuss-tastic action. The vibes are melancholic and delirious rather than rocking out with a cock out. In all, After All came out with a rather quirky mixture, for sure. Fans that like their thrash metal platter that were released later will be a bit surprised. This is definitely not a bad album just different.

Track list:
1. Erase Your Past
2. Self – Inflicted
3. Sweet Departure
4. Fragments Of Time
5. Condemned Heritage
6. Into The Sun
7. Reflection Of The Light
8. Lost / Insane
9. The Rapture
10. Sweet Departure-edit version