The Courts of Chaos is Manilla Road's official last release prior to splitting up in the early 90s. This album continues the thrash metal roots as found on the previous two works but not only that, you'll even hear keyboards from this release which weren't familiar in their territory until this record. The best use of them is for the appropriate named instrumental track Road to Chaos which leads the listener to full of mayhem with Dig Me No Grave, From Beyond and The Books of Skelos). The Courts of Chaos has several bizarre moments to make it stand out very well from Manilla Road's back catalogue.
From Beyond starts off with some very weird acoustic guitars that give off a sci-fi feel and rightfully so. For a song that sings about different dimensions and scientific experiments, there better be a sense of science fiction here or it wouldn't work at all. As a song that has a situation of failed experiments, the song takes the route down to chaos further and further thus Shelton intensifying with the riffs. The first riff has quite a rhythm to it but the second one goes full out thrash as the whole song goes to well, chaos. To finish it off with "No, nothing can save you from beyond" is rather evil but Manilla Road show no mercy! Overall, From Beyond is a fantastic song with some strong riffs and making its way to gradually intensify the music.
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