Track By Tracks: Crüzer - Look To The Skies (2025)

About the album as a whole (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY)

Eric: Listeners can expect a raging, thrashing good time, but with a melodic and humorous twist. Cruzer isn’t afraid to turn trash on its head and infuse the flavour with all kinds of spices and secret sauces!

Track by Track (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):

1. The title track Look to the Skies deals with the threat of an extraterrestrial invasion force, and the attempts of the world powers to stop it (or maybe they know more than they’re letting on…). The chorus hook on this song might be my favourite of the whole album, love how it just comes in out of nowhere after a whole verse and pre-chorus of harsh blackened thrash vocals.

2. Born to Rise deals with rising up from the ashes, overcoming adversity, and exacting revenge against those who tried to cross you. This song has a very hardcore punk feel compared to the other songs, but still has that melodic edge in the chorus vocals.

3. Raging Fire deals with a topic I’m sure most thrashers will be familiar with: the destruction of the environment! Whether through climate change, nuclear war, or both. This is a mid-paced song compared to the first two, but it contains some of the heaviest vocals on the whole album!

4. On the surface, I Need Thrash is your average Slayer-esque rager about going to a show, moshing, drinking, and partying. But the song actually contains an important message about fighting back against metal stereotypes, mainly the mentality of “killing posers,” which I’ve always hated. I got called a poser when I was younger, it fucking sucked! Who cares what subgenre or microgenre people like? Metal is metal! Leave them alone and let them enjoy things. DON’T BE A DICK!

5. In an almost direct assertion of the previous song’s message, Pit Vyper is by far the most melodic, commercial-friendly, and hair metal-tinged track on the whole album. The song is a classic sounding mix of old school speed metal bands like Exciter and Meliah Rage, 80s Judas Priest, and hair metal bands like Motley Crue. The lyrics deal with the classic subject matter of an evil metal mistress who turns your heart to stone! Now is that old school metal or what?!