FUGITIVE (USA) – ‘Maniac’ CD

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.