★★★★★
Tweet Triumph of the Will Iron Reagan, the thrash/'80s hardcore side project from Richmond, Virginia and featuring members of Municipal Waste, Cannabis Corpse and Darkest Hour, has released their second album The Tyranny of Will on Relapse and it's nothing short of incredible. Albums like this are few and far between these days. The old school hardcore sound that you grew up on, which is seemingly always making a comeback, is done really well here...
- www.mxdwn.com
2014-09-30
★★★★★
Iron Reagan's second album in two years, The Tyranny of Will, finds the group of metalheads continuing to revel in '80s-style hardcore punk. The bands name-checked as inspirations (Cro-Mags, D.R.I.), will be familiar to longtime fans of the style, but for me the closest comparison was to another side project/supergroup, '80s heroes S.O.D. Sonically, the fit between the two bands isn't exact (Stormtroopers of Death had more thrash in their sound than Iron Reagan), but the story is similar...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-09-19
★★★★★
I was an impressionable teenager when thrash and crossover were at their peak popularity. Bands like D.R.I., Cro-Mags and Corrosion of Conformity were my heroes. I considered their combination of punk and metal to be the zenith of musical evolution. I loved the way the two sounds came together, while each maintained its individual identity. If you went to a D.R.I. show in the late '80s, half the crowd was convinced they were a punk band, while the other half would swear they were metal...
- www.punknews.org
2014-09-17
★★★★★
A decade after his death (two since he left office), former president Ronald Reagan continues to be a subject of many a musical effigy, but it's been a while since the hardcore community had him as its muse. Enter Iron Reagan, a Richmond band composed of members from notable crossover thrash groups like Municipal Waste and Darkest Hour, who are the jellybean cowboy's latest invokers...
- pitchfork.com
2014-09-16
★★★★★
J. Bennett | Sep 12, 2014 | Comments 0 | Tags: Iron Reagan In just two years of existence, Richmond crossover punks Iron Reagan have cranked out two EPs and two albums for a grand total of over 60 songs. Granted, most of them are only about a minute long, but still, we'd be hard-pressed to name another band so prolific. Given that vocalist Tony Foresta and guitarist Phil Hall are also members of thrash warriors Municipal Waste, it's even more impressive...
- www.revolvermag.com
2014-09-13
★★★★★
4/5 Featuring Municipal Waste vocalist Tony Foresta and bassist Land Phil (on guitar) alongside two former members of Darkest Hour, Iron Reagan revive the pissed-off political punk/thrash crossover of the '80s, exhuming none other than the Gipper--every punk's favorite presidential punching bag--for their namesake...
- www.revolvermag.com
2013-05-31
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