FUGITIVE - Maniac Tape
Blake Ibanez of Power Trip returns with a new band, Fugitive, and the ‘Maniac’ EP, 4 original tracks of the aggressive pit-friendly Thrash he’s known for + a cover of Bathory’s ‘Raise The Dead’.
Joined by Seth Gilmore, Lincoln Mullins, Victor Gutierrez and Andy Messer, Ibanez and co. add a darker rawness to the equation with Fugitive as well as a formidably savage Death Metal vocal style, like Power Trip passed through an Obituary meatgrinder.
A short sharp shock of an EP, “Maniac” is a violent introduction across its 17 minute runtime to a future that Fugitive is just beginning to write.
- 20 Buck Spin