Cost: $1.00
This was quite an obscure find from the dollar bin. There's certainly enough decent material on here to make it worth the buck, but the album also feels a bit unfocused and never fully resonated with me. Most of the songs are based in thrash/death metal, with some punky/HC influences as well (they're especially fond of throwing in fast crossover passages, especially on the shorter tracks).
Initially I was disappointed by the vocals because they're in a gruff, more HC-appropriate style on the opening track, and they're in a kind of jokey style on the short second track "Acid." Farther in there's thankfully more of a focus on growling (quite solid) and also some BM-style rasping, but sadly the squawking and other sillier vocals still occasionally persist, and make it difficult to take the music very seriously.
Things also get surprisingly extreme towards the end. I suppose the short "Sense of Death" is just a downtuned crossover riff at heart with death metal vocals over it, but it still feels very deathy and relentless compared to the preceding songs. Even with that preparation, I was slightly shocked by "Geballer," which is just total death/grind, something I wasn't really expecting so late in the album.
There are some pretty cool tracks on here, like "Red Button" and "Qual," but almost all of the appeal of this disc comes from fairly generic examples of speed and aggression rather than any great songwriting or riffage. However, for a buck, I'll gladly take it.
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