The Exploited - Eyes Of The Vulture - HD Audio & Video Remaster

Welcome to Edinburgh's finest - The Exploited
Their third LP, ‘Let’s Start a War…Said Maggie One Day’ to some extent acts as a bridge between the 70s and 80s in terms of punk’s attempt to gain longevity after its initial explosion. Despite this, their lyrics and philosophy are a time capsule, acting as a damning critique of the UK in 1983.
It acts as a missing link between the original punk movement and Discharge’s landmark release of 1982, despite being released a year later. The guitar, superbly played by Big John Duncan, is raw and aggressive embodying that classic harsh wail that, when applied to the simplest two or three power chord riffs, calls to mind an air-raid siren. But they could just as easily be applied to domesticated heavy rock. Vocals are pure barks of aggression, allowing the lyrics to be fully audible.The joy of this album is the depth and range it reaches for within what can at times be such crippling confines. Discharge may have incorporated an apocalypticism into their aggressive brand of punk, but they are remembered ultimately for doing one thing very well.
The Exploited on ‘Let’s Star a War…’ are capable of breakneck thrash that presages the vast majority of extreme metal in the decade to come. Not just in terms of the shifting power chord rifts defining the rhythm and structure of the track, but also the epic given new meaning in this primitive context.
‘God Saved the Queen’ goes on to predict black metal’s penchant for simple, repeated refrains driven ad absurdum into the listener, disorientating their sense of time. These are paradoxically thrown against harder faster numbers that retain enough melody and pop sensibilities that one could almost call them pop music (albeit a distorted and hyper aggressive version).
This album is as relevant today as it was when released in 1983.
Eyes Of The Vulture
Death as seen through a vultures eyes
Four hundred feet above a sunlit sky
Doesn't have to kill to stay alive
Man the animal is it's provider
See the darkened Lebanese skies
See the darkened, see the darkened
See the darkened Lebanese skies
See the darkened Lebanese skies
Vultures picks on those who died
Bloated bodies stench the air
While Israel soldiers stand and stare
See the darkened Lebanese skies
See the darkened, see the darkened
See the darkened Lebanese skies
Man the animal is it's provider
And it doesn't give a damn why man kill man
And it never seeks no answers as long as there corpses
All supplied by political gangsters
See the darkened Lebanese skies
See the darkened, see the darkened
See the darkened Lebanese skies