The recipe was exactly the same like 20 years earlier, and even in sound "Breaking the Wheel" may fit well on the side of the most famous Bay Area thrash albums. The difference is that Eliminator's music was more complex and sounded like the speed/thrash bands after many years of routine and development. Extreme speed in themes and solo parts and higher diversity. Blast beats and frequently returning cawing/growling-like vocal pushed their music further to a more aggressive level, so all together the album isn't far to be called as experimenting. Still it keeps staying between the borders of the style. It was almost like a band that probably many old school metal fans were looking for since a while, except... The frequently returning problem with bands who are musically so skilled at the beginning, that they can reproduce the highest quality of a style with no sweat is, that they will probably switch style very soon (like what actually happenned in the case of Eliminator). They're seeking further challenges in progression or/and in experimenting, or just starting to play something more popular if they didn't find the previous style enough profitable. In both cases they're losing most of their audience, so it's like a complete restart for a band.
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