At this point, I suppose, you should have searched the band and you will agree with me if you didn't, you saved yourself form something painful, and I envy you.
And probably it's better not to mention the singer's performances in mid-tempo parts (okay, check the song which gave this unique title to my review, if you dare to listen). They are uninspired, most of the times they are irritating, annoying, distasteful to the ear. let me take a big breath first, in order not to screw up all the review.
The music never gets interesting, the drummer is plain and sometimes messy, the guitar job is pretty boring in both riffs and solos, the bass simply doesn't exist. Done? That's literally everything Thrash or Die has to offer, and it's even amazing. Listen to it while watching and then come back reading. I suggest to you the same listening experience I had at the time: go on YouTube and search the name of the band, you will find immediately the video for the opening track 'Fatal Fury'. So let's try to concentrate on music, still hoping that these guys were only joking. Therefore expect ALL the lyrics on Poser Holocaust to be total rubbish, from the beginning to the end. Seriously, i hope they are trolls or whatever. Obviously I'm not saying that emergent bands don't have the right to play thrash, but if you are a less-than-average musician at least you should try to put some passion and energy into the music, without hoping to look cool only because you say 'all the posers must die', blah blah. As I said before, nobody who played on this disc has some kind of reputation in the thrash scene, with the only exception being (perhaps) guitarist Mario Cianci, ex-Diamond Plate member (featured on both their albums) this emerges clearly through the course of Poser Holocaust. Toilet humor, lame riffs, boring music, fake anti-poser attitude? Not surprisingly, this album has a bit of everything to be a total failure, I must say. I decided only some days ago to listen to Thrash or Die, not knowing exactly what I was about to hear. It's always the same affair, we are attracted by things which are forbidden or, in this case, discouraged by so many people: can a thrash album be actually worth of seven consecutive zeros? Then my eye moved on the album list, where a perfect 0% average rating was exposed on their debut full-length Poser Holocaust, and my expectations turned into a fancy about how a band could deserve a score like that. Maybe it was the idea of a revival thrash band formed by members of notable acts of the genre (only later I've discovered that the ex-Solstice members didn't take part on this album), which immediately made me think of the Texan Warbeast, who are however a way more serious project. Some time ago, after a long browsing in the Archives I've arrived to this band, and it excited my curiosity from the very beginning.
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