Absolute Power (Hol) [CD]

'Absolute Power' is the only full length album from Minneapolis' Powermad. Most 80's ragers with even the most remote semblance of history or knowledge will already be well versed in this record, but it's 'absolutely' worth the finder's fee if you're a newcomer to the period's more pronounced acts. This is one of those rare albums that is just perfect from end-to-end. Speedy, melodic, no-holding-back thrash. The solos are the stuff of legends. Fast, while still being catchy enough to get stuck in your head and hum to. Joel DuBay and Todd Haug were as good a guitar tandem as you could hope for and they really had a gift for writing quality riffs, harmonies, transitions and solos, all with a mildly proggy bent.