Vitamin X Ride the Apocalypse CD
Hardcore thrash titans VITAMIN X have been around the block, and it shows on their seventh album, Ride the Apocalypse. A pristine display of experience and skill, these seventeen tracks show a band who can seemingly write ripper after ripper in their sleep. Melding hardcore punk with metallic crossover, the formula works and sounds classic right out of the gate with riffs on riffs, a rock-solid rhythm section, and vocals that call back to classic NYHC. I have no more notes, this is the top of the pile for this style, made all the more legit with Andrei Bouzikov’s killer artwork and Joel Grind’s beefy mastering.