Album: Go Off!
Genre: Heavy Metal
Release: 1988
Length: 40 minutes
Tracks: 8
Country of Origin: United States
Let me start off by saying that in this album, I can actually stand Peter Marrino's vocals a bit more than that of Speed Metal Symphony. The major difference between this one and Speed Metal Symphony is that SMS never stopped shredding. It seems for this one that it takes up until the introduction of the first instrumental on the album, the title track, 'Go Off!' to actually cue in some work that's nearly nothing but shred. I'm not saying the guitar work on this album is mediocre, because it's not at all. It contains quite a bit more moments with a neo-classical sound, most prominent in 'Images' but also shows up in the tracks 'E.S.P.' and 'Floating World.' The bass on this album is more prominent than it was in Speed Metal Symphony.
I will say that the most prominent shred track on this album would have to be the instrumental track, 'Go Off!' but Cacophony still managed to put out a hell of an album, just like they did with Speed Metal Symphony. This time it seemed that they were acting more as a band than focusing on two amazing shredders. Which, as I said, is in no negative context towards Cacophony, it's just easier to see that Speed Metal Symphony had much more complex guitar work. Again, I dearly wish that Jason Becker would recover from his ALS and Cacophony would release another album, but we can only hope.
Here's the title track:
Overall rating: 4.75/5
Review by Paradox
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