heavy-metal-darkness: Eviction |The World Is Hours Away |Brutal Planet Records (Reissue/Remastered)

Thursday, January 8, 2026

Eviction |The World Is Hours Away |Brutal Planet Records (Reissue/Remastered)

Release Date: December 15th, 2025
Format: Vinyl/CD
Genre: Crossover, Thrash Metal
Country: USA

Eviction emerged from Pittsburgh in the late 1980s, a city better known for steel than spotlight. Built on punk attitude and thrash aggression, the band grew inside a tight underground network of record shops, fanzines, basements, and sweat-soaked clubs. Their history is full of lineup shifts, noisy rehearsals, and stubborn persistence, all of it feeding into a sound shaped by frustration, humor, and working-class realism. In 1990, that path led to their debut album “The World Is Hours Away”, a release that quickly gained cult recognition among crossover fans.

Listening today, the album still speaks in a blunt and physical language. The songs rely on speed, tension, and street-level themes, pushing forward with a raw energy that mirrors the era it came from. Tracks like “Listen”, “Drunken State”, and “American Way” reflect a band focused on social pressure, personal limits, and everyday anger, without drifting into abstraction. The writing stays sharp and grounded, keeping its message clear and confrontational.

The remastered edition by Brutal Planet Records gives the album a renewed presence without sanding down its edges. The sound remains aggressive and unfiltered, now presented with better balance and definition. This version makes it easier to appreciate the tight interaction between riffs, rhythms, and vocals, while preserving the album’s original impact. The packaging also reinforces its historical value, framing the release as part of a larger underground story rather than a nostalgic artifact.

“The World Is Hours Away” stands as a solid document of American crossover thrash at a moment when scenes were colliding and rules were loose. It captures a band reacting to its surroundings in real time, speaking plainly and loudly. This reissue strengthens that legacy and places the album firmly back in circulation where it belongs.

Score: 8.0