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Whiplash - Insult to Injury Audio CD

A fair review of the Whiplash "Insult to Injury" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Whiplash reviews here, or go back to the Whiplash tabs.

Whiplash Band: Whiplash
Title: Insult to Injury
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Release Date: 1990-08-14
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Voice of Sanity 2: Hiroshima 3: Insult to Injury 4: Dementia Thirteen 5: Essence of Evil 6: Witness to the Terror 7: Battlescars 8: Rape of the Mind 9: 4 E.S. 10: Pistolwhipped

A great follow-up to Ticket to Mayhem
Insult to Injury is at least as good as Ticket to Mayhem, although it sounds vastly different from the latter. So, its '89 and they're working on this album and they certainly have a few suprises.

Portaro's gruff vocals were replaced by Glenn Hansen, who has a distinctively higher singing voice. This gave in Portaro's words, "More time to pay attention to playing guitar. "

The guitar riffs are catchier, the bass playing by Bono improved tremendously, and the songs are well written. Cangelosi comes back for drumming duty and the results are good.

It's really hard to describe what this sounds like exactly but a lot of the songs start out with a solo and then some type of break.

This album certainly did a lot to differentiate Whiplash's sound from other bands in the Genre at the time but it appears that didn't help them much case they broke up soon after this album came out.

They released two more albums that were like Sabbath meets Deep Purple and then the three originals Tony's (Bono, Portaro, Scaglione) got back together for "Thrashback" in '98. Tony Bono apparently died in '02, so no chance of a reunion. Man. . .

Definitely worth checking out; 4 3/4 stars!
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