Take "Ruination" for example, it begins with a Suicidal Tendencies riff (similar to the one from "The Feeling's Back"), before it lunges into a mid-paced groove that rivals Demolition Hammer for heaviness, and then accelerates into brutal, simple hardcore. The band's biggest strength is their ability to filter the best parts of their predecessors into catchy, venomous and exciting songs. This is where "Nightmare Logic" shines brightest. They must be married with great song-writing and execution. Great influences don't mean much on their own. This exact blend of influences does not seem to have occurred to anyone before. I also detect a nineties hardcore influence, probably through Cleveland bands like Integrity and Ringworm. The NYC crossover sound is never far away either (e.g., Cro-Mags, Killing Time, Leeway, Nuclear Assault). Sometimes you'll hear the wilder sounds of Slayer or Sepultura. Sometimes you'll hear the crunchy Bay Area sound of bands like Exodus and Lȧȧz Rockit.
As such, this record can sound like several older bands simultaneously whilst retaining the 'Power Trip' essence. They drew from a plethora of thrash and hardcore styles and fixed them into a cohesive package. Power Trip sound nothing like their neo-thrash contemporaries because they are the product of wider influences. The debut Power Trip album, "Manifest Decimation", was impressive in its own right but was nothing compared to this one. Metal had moved so far beyond thrash by this point. These revival bands had good riffs and cool Repka-esque cover art, but they could never be at the cutting edge like their predecessors. Thrash itself became a historical artifact in the process, before getting re-animated by bands like Municipal Waste at the turn of the century. Over time, thrash developed into a subgenre with its own set of tropes, inspiring other subgenres of metal in its wake (e.g., death metal and groove metal). It was an organic development in which bands like Metallica pushed the limits of what Diamond Head, Discharge and others had done before them. The original 80s thrash scene arose by combining the NWOBHM and hardcore punk. I have no time for the so-called 'thrash revival'.
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