So by now, everyone knows there is a huge thrash revival happening in music. A lot of bands pay homage to the style without fully understanding it in depth. One can hear a lot of bands these days, and dismiss they as merely 2009 versions of their 80s predecessors. When I pressed play on Landmine Marathon's "Rusted Eyes Awake," it was like someone had found a lost demo or album from 1985. It was the album that fit perfectly between "At War With Satan" and "Hell Awaits." Or, for that matter, alongside bands like Destruction and Celtic Frost. People who borrow elements of thrash do not develop their own style, tending instead to just mimic it. Landmine Marathon takes the style and drops its own self-styled thrash bomb, and it simply fucking kills. A lot of these thrash revival bands are fun to listen to, but I always end up saying, "I think I will go and listen to the original." Landmine Marathon makes me want to listen to Landmine Marathon, and the feelings it evokes in me are the same as those I felt when I first heard Exodus, Venom, Exciter, and Razor, who took and pushed music to a new level of metal when the genre was fresh three decades ago.