Active Ingredients Fly Again cassette
An interesting variety of sounds here: pile-driving punk and thrash, rap and MENTORS-ish metal rock lyrics and personal and political. Some pretty hot stuff on this one.
MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL
An interesting variety of sounds here: pile-driving punk and thrash, rap and MENTORS-ish metal rock lyrics and personal and political. Some pretty hot stuff on this one.
The sneering, cynical thrash on this EP should appeal to fans of bands like JACKSHIT, despite special studio effects which hurt some of these songs. “I Hate MTV” rates as a rousing thrasher, though this record falls beneath the standard of their ripping debut EP. Above average.
I half-expected this to be another uneventful American thrash record, but this EP contains some weirder material with unusual vocal inflections and some spastic structural shifts. “Service with a Smile” is particularly distinctive musically—dig the screaming guitar—whereas “Take from the Poor, Give to the Rich” provides some food for thought.
