Maniac Within--Volume One (1997/Dein Reich) Rating--6.1

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Plastic People--RealAudio

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A Phoenix power trio, Maniac Within brings across a musical sound a bit along the lines of Pantera, but also like the early '90s Jag Panzer mechanical crunch. The vocals fluctuate between singing and a strained-like yell, sounding like a rough Dee Snider in the smoother sections. Things are better during the singing...
"Death Comes and Goes" features some nice choppy riffs, and a number of other solid tracks carry the second half of the disc: "Plastic People," "Victims of the Innocence" with its end pickup, "The Arrow," and "Crazy Holy Ghost".
The band is in a good market for metal music, so they bear watching.

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TRACK LIST: Put Your Hands Together.../Anthropophagy/Whoever You Are/Death Comes and Goes/Plastic People/Killer of Tomorrow/Victims of the Innocence/The Arrow/Crazy Holy Ghost

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