STONE - Emotional Playground CD

The album is a damn good one. It just requires concentration and wants to be familiar enough to be on first name terms with you before opening up and offering its treasures. If the members of Stone thought they had milked the thrash well dry when they broke up, it may even hold some truth in it. The album is about as complex as thrash albums can generally hope to be, and it perhaps even sacrifices some thrashiness in order to achieve even more, but it's complex in a very cunning, almost invisible way. None of the tempo changes or transformations the songs go through ever sound awkward or forced, the music flows in an incredible way all through the dozens of different sections in the songs. It's a lean, mean killer machine, but it looks like a sports car and runs down people like a sniper instead of the cruiser tank thrash fans are more familiar with.