Technically speaking, the band can easily compete with Megadeth and associates. Whoever thinks I'm speaking about the lack of brutality should carefully grab his head, clean their ears from unworhty filth of the last few months and adjust to receive. Neither Pantera nor Biohazard, nor Obituary can match with this technical perfect document. It is superfluous to give any playtips, because "Symbolic" has something of everything and stays first class all the way. Bolt Thrower's output was, because of it being non compromising brute and very enchanting consequently, merely a warning of the run aground in the swamp of no imagination frigate death metal, but it's owed to "Symbolic" that the shaken genre ship is steaming ahead again on full force towards new perspectives.

An awesome, timeless good and guiding piece of work with which everything in the future has to be compared with. Subjectively even the best DEATH album anyway. Whenever Chuckie reads these lines: with the following tour we want to hear the complete album and the immortal classics of the "Infernal Death" tapes. Thank you.

Wolfgang Schäfer

Rating: 10