youth korpse 1982 demo

here's a sadly underrated recording. youth korpse existed for about a year from 1981 to 82. they recorded this 13 song demo then went away. no idea where they were from or what the members went on to do (other than breathe) but I do know that this demo is fucking great. ultrafast, powerful, thrashing hardcore. it almost sounds like the blueprint for the subgenre known as powerviolence that came into being in the later part of the decade. I wonder how many bands heard this demo. reminds me of siege and deep wound but 2 years before them. this is just great thrash. one slower song on here but that's a good one too. i'm amazed at the production. for a demo this is really really clear. 32 years after it was released this still shreads and could destroy most new bands. it's on the internet so go download it. I know it was release as an ep in the 90s but no idea about recent reissues. this has been called the quick and the dead demo as well as the 1982 demo. no idea what it's actually called so i'll just call it fucking fantastic. get this or get away

discharge grave new world lp

I give the crust and dis bands a lot of shit but I do like the originater. discharge's music was great English hc. the pounding drums, the rumbling bass, the simple guitar, the barked vocals..great stuff. after the hear nothing lp came out the band changed stile a bit, going for more of a metal vibe. honestly everything up to the more I see isn't bad. it's not always discharge but it's good. if they'd stopped after that i'd be happy. but they did not..in 1986 the band released this....thing. the band themselves had adopted a glam look. poofy hair, earrings, all that shit. the music is slow, kind of guns n roses before guns n roses..just better. yes, as shitty as this is it's better than gnr. if i'm going to be objected I can kind of hear a very few nods to the older band's stile. mostly in the drums. the musicians are talented. kal however is not. he's not a good singer, he's a good yeller. so when he tried to hit high notes...words can't describe how bad his voice is. he doesn't sound sexy or demonic, he sounds like his voice is breaking. he sounds like a bad police siren. I have a live recording of them from the same year and he sounds as bad on that. the music honestly might have been saved if kal had fucked off. it wouldn't have been discharge but hey. the tour that followed was a disaster. the crowd hated them. both in England and the states. the band broke up after this abortion but kal didn't learn his lesson. he reformed the band and recorded a couple more albums. he tried going more ac/dc in the voice...it didn't work. people have called his later albums thrash..no..they're just bad metal. the band later reformed and went back to being punk. I love playing this for all the dis bands. here's what your heros became. it makes me laugh.but honestly this shit sucks. don't buy this, listen to it once on line then buy something you can live with easier..a tapeworm perhaps. anyway fuck this record and fuck all the discharge clones.

artery eruption all 3 albums

i was looking through my collection of shit wondering what to review next? and i stumbled onto my favorite modern (past 27 years) band, artery eruption. but i couldn't decide which album to review. so i said fuck it, review all 3! honestly if you don't know who ae is you probably won't like them. they're the sickest slam death metal band ever. all 3 albums are kinda the same. lowfi mix, really lowfi recording and production, amazing slams, horrificly awesome song titles, and weird ass samples at the beginning of most songs. this band isn't out to rais demonic spirits from the dead, they're out to kill you and rape your corpse. seriously that's about all they sing about. song titles such as jacking off on an inside out butthole, asexual virgin killer, yeah you know what to expect. surprisingly the jokieness of the song titles only makes them more awesome. they haven't released anything in a long time. if any of the members of artery eruption read this, get your shit together and either release another album or play southern callifornia. do it you cunts! anyway onto the albums reduced to a limbless sexslave, gouging out eyes of mutilated infants, and the alltogether more tame sounding driving my fist through her chest. 27 songs all together. the drummer can't really keep time and spazzes out from time to time. the guitar chugs along, the singer (singers?) do slam death vocals, and the bass does whatever it does..but holy fuck..combine everything and you've got the most brutal thing ever. this is slam for real slammers. fuck amputated, this is not for the faint of heart. if you're put off by bad production stay away. if you hate music because it can't keep time stay away. if you hate crudely drawn gory artwork and want everything polished stay away. if you don't like chaos...get the fuck out of here! that's the thing, this band has chaos. pure chaos. like kreator's pleasure to kill or sepultura's morbid visions. both albums sound like they're about to go off the tracks at any given time (morbid visions more as the band couldn't keep time) artery eruption sounds like they said fuck the tracks and drove the train on the sidewalk. i like chaos. slick production and machine like beats are fine but when i want the best of the best i look for chaotic bands. it's the punk rock thing i think. cephalotripsy is a great band with an amazing album. but everything feels like it's working together. artery eruption sounds like everything's falling apart. and godfuckingdamnit i can't get enough. buy all 3 of these albums if you want to take death metal to it's logical conclusion. if you're scared of brutality then stay away from this band and this blog. and yes i know i didn't review each album and give a review of every track...i can't. i just have to review the band. the 3 albums to me make one album of awesomeness. i will say on gouging out eyes of mutilated infants the closing song ripped with anal forceps clocks in at over 10 minutes. listen to that song. if you're not converted then i don't know you. i fucking love this band and they need to play here. i'd go see em. buy all 3 of these and any splits and demos they may have. do it you slammers!

powerxchuck s/t 7 ep

well well well. seems wile my blog hasn't made me any connections, my facebook activity has. this very cool dude from australia named ryan dropped this into my online lap a while back but i'm an idiot and kind of forgot. only when he showed me his previous band (more about that later) i rediscovered this ep. powerxchuck are a band from australia. i won't go into genre details for fear of being killed for calling the band something they don't want to be called. it sounds like grindcore and powerviolence but for all i know they could be called chihuahua fucking thrash metal violence fuck rat ham bacon. seriously i hate these od subsubsubgenre names. anyway the music...the music is awesome. it's nothing mindblowingly original but it's earblowingly good. 7 minutes of pure fucking mayhem. just the way i like it. the vocals rock, it's quite well mixed, and it's one pure headfuck. cool titles too. this band is so good i'm not even gonna bitch about the x in the name! ryan the singer was previously in a band called peter brock (which is what caught my interest, those who know me and know what i like will understand) and if you liked that band's ep (which you should) you'll like this. buy it people. you need this. coming up, i haven't reviewed anything by acxdc yet. which is amazing. stay tooned! if anyone reads this then leave a comment you stupid cunts!

rf7 rf7 101 cd

here's a post i was supposed to do in may. but as they say i'm a lazy sod so hear it is. rf7 is a punk band from l.a that my friend zach doesn't like. because he's scared of good music or something. anyway they've been doing this for 35 or so years now and have yet to release anything bad. the last album hatred on the rise ripped and this also does. still hardcore punk mixed with some 60s influence, still the same singer rasping out his lyrics, still the same guitarest showing us that punk and solos isn't always a bad idea. what can i say? this album rocks. one of the best of the year so far. i can't complain about a thing really. it's a damn fine album. maybe not as fast as hatred but still with chunks of fast. buy this if you know what good music is. if you don't i can review a generic crust band next for you

happy pill trauma s/t tape

here's a band from my neck of the woods, happy pill trauma. great name (no xes or dis) the band is a male/female band with both doing vocals. can't quite remember who plays what (i've been up for 47 hours sue me) but they don't have a bassest. why so many grind bands leave out a bass is utterly beyond me as i think it can add real punch. think assuck's misery index. this band could do with adding some bass to the sound. other than that this is pretty good grindcore. i guess this would be called grindcore/powerviolence of mincecore or some other stupid fucking name. well elliott don't play that way. this is grindcore, reminding me of a lot of older bands. from the more punky side of things which of course is what i look for in grind. 10 songs in over 7 minutes means the songs aren't long but neither are they so short it's one blur. as much as i like anal cunt and s.o.d's crab society north demo a lot of those bands run together. the vocals are a bit more metal than you'd find on an old napalm death record especially the lows (done i believ by the guy in the band) but they add a nice touch. the production is raw but you can hear everything. i've been awaiting this tape for a while. i heard live recordings and shitty demo recordings but this sounds much better. i still wish these tracks had more low end though. put a bass in guys, it doesn't bite. overall get this tape any way you can, this band needs suport. they're a very good example of grind in southern california and whipe the floor with those 4/5 bands in the valey that all sound the same. buy or die.

human remains using sickness as a hero ep

so pt isn't cool enough to get the new acxdc lp. fine, see if i'll give them a good review! oh wait acxdc are fucking great so i probably will. just jealous is all. now anyway this is a band called human remains (just in case you were dumb and didn't know) they were from new jersey and played spazzy grindish death metal. with a name like human remains you'd think they would sing about death and gore but no. an interesting lyrical trip, singing about mankind and society. not bad. musicly this is wellproduced spazzy death metal. no death grunts here, more like a midrange death stile vocals which is good. the drummer is dave wit who has broken the record held by dan lilker in being in the most bands. seriously how does he keep up. he's been in everything from standard metal (he's in municipal waste) to freaky japanese noise. on this record he abuses his drum set, blasting so fast it's inhuman. if only he played this way in municipal waste. the guitars play rifs then start squeeking and spazzing out when the music goes into an od time. some people don't like this record, claming it's thrown together. i say fuck them they're idiots. i quite enjoy this, shame they didn't do a full album. a discography double cd exists and i need it. if you like spazzy death metal with grind influence and who doesn't?! then you should check this out. if you hate metal...i can't help ya

gid's not dead movie review

warning, if you're a christian you may want to either stop reading or if you have an open mind keep reading, you may find some things i say interesting. i had the profound displeasure of watching this vapid movie recently and i've been in shock since watching it but i've recovered so i'll review it. my first movie review and it's a delightful (ha!) piece of christian propaganda called god's not dead. from the title you know what to expect. i'll do a summery and point out bad plot points. a christian kid enters a philosophy class and the proffeser an atheist tells all kids that in order to pass you have to sign a decleration saying god is dead. first of all no selfrespecting professer of any subject would do this, atheist or not. sorry. second, a lot of christian (and a few nonchristian schools) make students sign a pledge that states jesus christ born of a virgin is god come in the flesh. okay. and it goes on with someone diing of cancer but a pastor helps the person become a born again christian. i've heard many faiths lost because of cancer and stillborn babys. and the film ends with a girl wanting to know more about god...anyway basicly the film makes it impossible to root for anyone. the christians are pushy and preachy and the atheists come off as such assholes you want to punch them. after watching this i stopped and said....is this how they see us? i have always been an atheist, i have never had faith in god or any deity. but i thought some christians were okay with that..guess not. this movie didn't make me say oh repent! this movie made me actually sad and hurt. i felt like a fucking alien. this is really how the christians who are the domenent force in this country see us...that's not good. this film makes me more of an antichristian, sorry god's not dead people. fuck you and fuck your god. the acting was horrible too. it's so overdramatic if calculon from futurama saw this he'd hang his head in shame. i was expecting someone from the movie to yel noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! at any moment. this movie is a piece of shit that should be avoided by atheists unless you wanna be more antichristian and christians because it may influence your beliefs and if even more people think like this i might have to leave the country. fuck god's not dead, god is dead and this movie killed him

death ...for the whole world to see lp

this is death. not that death, the other death. the one very few have heard of until recently. death was a band that existed in the early to mid 70s consisting of 3 brothers who according to the documentary wanted to play pure rock n role. sadly now if anyone mentions them they'll mention that death is the first all black band that could be labeled as punk. which to me reduces the music to a curiocity. it's like a band is the first all girl metal band. fine but are they good? well this band is great. raw and heavy, with quite a bit of melody, this is punk before punk. i love it. sadly they couldn't get a record deal because of the name death. in an age where anal cunt and cock and ball torture are sold at record stores it's hard to understand the drawbacks of this. death? pfft, my band's called satanic dogfuckers from hell. different era...it's a shame they never got signed because this album is fantastic. for some reason that i can't place this reminds me of the crowd. only earlyer. for 74 these guys were heavy as hell and even today this kicks the shit out of most punk bands. this was released in 2009 finally and i think the band did a few tours with a replacement guitarest as the one on the album died. they also released a documentary which talks about the struggles. what they don't mention and i'm a bit perplexed is that wile in 74 this band called death existed and couldn't get a record deal, 13 years later another band called death had no trouble finding support releasing records. i suppose if indi labels existed this band would have gotten signed. which would have been great because this music is fantastic. sadly the band morfed into a christian rock band then a regae band....i'm not kidding. sad. anyway pick this up and enjoy, you'll be glad you did

hail of rage fucking pissed 7 ep

I've been on a record search tonight, wondering what I should review next. I just got the new rf7 record in the mail but I need to give it a few listens first. so here I was on fuckbook when a member of one of the best local bands around happy pill trama posts this 7 inch. she said that you could feel the rage. consider my interest peaked. rage is good. the name was a tad laughable as are most new punk bands and the record title was straight to the point. I thought I'd get basic and raw as fuck hardcore, the kind that got me into this thing. think chaotic dischord but worse musicians. what I actually got was what the kids today call powerviolence, which I consider a laughably stupid name. it's just hardcore punk to me. anyway I was surprised. like with every pv band this band has a lot of tempo changes and some pretty technical (for punk standards) drum parts. and a 2 guitar attack. basic pv, enough to get me in the mood for about 20 beers. but what it didn't have...the rage....nowhere. gone. now when I think of rage the first person that comes to mind is john Brannon of negative approach. that dude's voice is so powerful after the first song oon a na record or live recording I'm hooked and I don't know if I should mosh or punch someone. the fact that no one is usually around is a good thing I think. or bands like fear of god with Erich's evil as fuck vocals. this...this sounds like the singer is annoyed at something, maybe he's had a bad day, maybe the football teem lost or he's behind on a house payment. this doesn't sound like the tortured shouts of a man forced to homeless by the capitalist scum. not in the slightest. don't get me wrong it's better than whoever that band was that did the song punching holes in the world that singer just dispassionitly talked his way through the song (blablabla punching holes in the world, can I go now) but...I just don't hear the white hot rage of 80s hardcore bands. this guy's good but he should change the title of this to slightly annoyed and hail of rage to hail of grumbling. it's a good record, strong musicly but the main selling point is the anger (don't pretend it's not) maybe if they turned the vocs up in the mix and maybe if the producer smacked the singer around a few times with raw meat we'd get a better performance. here's a tip for the singer for this band. when you're about to record, touch a very hot pot with your bare hands. that way you'll make a convincing record

corrupt mind control e.p cd

corrupt is a socalled death/thrash band from my hometown. I knew of them by name I think and so was interested in hearing what they sounded like. however the only thing I could find was a few shitty live recordings. not to worry, they said they were releasing an ep soon....soon? how come I never heard about it? well I can get the new psycho record before it comes out but I can't get anyone around my hometown to actually tell me when they're releasing anything. thanks cunts! anyway I found this and put it on, holy fuck is this good. a little sloppy at first but that's how thrash should be. good production, you can still hear the raw sound but everything sounds good. the music though is straight up old school death metal. no bullshit, this will kill you. everything is as chaotic as it can get and Elliott loves chaos. 4 songs in 16 minutes...great guitars, great drums, great bass, great vocals. honestly it takes a lot to get me into local bands but I'm loving this band. download this thing or get a cd somehow. you need this if you like metal. get it or die!!!

positive faction our songs so buy it damnit! tape

sorry I haven't been around, I was supposed to do a co review but I think bishop died or something...or is just busy...either way I'm blaming him for the no posts, even if I knew he's busy with his book..i'm an asshole. anyway here we have a band called positive faction from huntuntsville Alabama, and this demo was released in 1988. and they were straightedge. that's all I know about this band. I found this tape wile I was on some weird site I guess dedicated to Huntsville bands. I found a lot of great bands including skellatal earth...but here's my review of this 7 song tape. this is pretty midpased hardcore punk with a straightedge youth crew theme. pretty dated by 1988 standards (the year of napalm death's second album and infest's slave lp) but this really isn't bad per say. the mix is strange, it sounds very echoy and weird. not quite what I expected from a demo at all. the lyrics are meh..mostly about straightedge and joining the positive faction (if it's all the same to you i'll have a beer) and...love? really? a fucking love song? and a cover of stand by me that's not that bad. this band sounds like they'd later evolve into an alternative rock band, you can almost hear it. maybe it's the weird ass guitar tone, maybe it's the way the singer does his thing...they never got to evolve as far as I can tell because they seem to have broken up after releasing this tape. it's not bad but it's nothing special either. if you like midpased hardcore with a love song (granted that love song does have a good guitar rif) download this somehow..if not well then..don't... it's a good tape but more speed and rawness would have helped

dark angel darkness descends lp

1986, thrash, super fast. these are the words that kept popping up when I researched this album. sounds like it should fit my tastes. but here's the thing..it doesn't..no. no no no. in fact, this album falls right flat on its face. let me prolog this. we have arrived is some of the best thrash you'll ever find ever. the riffs grab you and don't let go. on this followup they traded riffs and heaviness for speed. is that all I really want? sure if it's a grindcore band. pure speed is fine and really fun to play. but for thrash..i want rifs. that's why pleasure to kill hits me so hard, it's got riffs, speed, heaviness. this album sounds like the band sat down and said okay..what do the kids like? hmmm..let's play as fast as we can! that's right, I'm calling this album commercial. and fuck you all who don't hear it. this album just seems like someone sat down and tried to please the kids. the riffs suffer from being played so fast, the aggression so many of the meatheads on metal archives talked about seems to be the kind where I can't find it..what aggression? this isn't aggressive at all, just pointlessly fast. it's a good album for pure speed but come on, how can anyone say this is better than we have arrived? maybe the poser new thrashers. maybe I'm wrong, maybe the band really loved playing fast..but it doesn't sound like it to me. the mix is dirty without having that live punch creator had. I expected so much from this album and I leave shaking my head going..really? was that really what people are so in love over? the overall take away from this album is...meh. that's it..it's a good album, fun, but nowhere near the godly thrash classic kids seem to think it is. I prefer we have arrived for its riffs. maybe if they pulled a slayer or creator and actually wrote songs along with the speed it'd be good. or do an anal cunt and just go apeshit. don't get this unless you're one of those who blindly follows metal archives reviewers. rather you should blindly follow me!

psycho chainsaw priest cd

so here's a record..by a band..that's not even out yet! I guess it's who you know. question, who the fuck do I know? I somehow ended up on the mailing list of self made god records and they sent this. how I got on i'll never know but I ain't complaining. here's on of my favorite bands..sort of. I don't know much about psycho past 86. they started out as a really fun hardcore punk band with some pop in it then got harder and harder. they did an album with gg allin and released splits with bands like anal cunt..that's about all I know. then they released a 7 inch shaped like a saw with 4 cutting (it's a pun!) tracks..awesome stuff..pure hardcore. I heard this described as a grind punk album and at first I was like...what? I didn't know psycho went grind. but I guess they have but grind punk I wouldn't call it that. this is just really really really fast hardcore. it reminds me of mid 80s bands from Europe and japan in the really fast punk sound but of corse this sounds like nothing before it. this is just raw and crushing hardcore with a lot of grind influence...I've said before that grindcore has to have punk in it and here's the proof. the mix is soooo fucking loud. it's great. though the drums are sort of hidden in the mix. it sounds pretty polished but not in the ultra clean misery index sort of way. it does sound like they recorded it in an actual studio rather than in a room like some albums...this is just really solid. 17 tracks in 29 minutes. what more could you possibly ask for? if you're a fan of ultra fast hardcore/grind like napalm death, fear of god, filthy Christians, s.o.b well you should already know who this band is..if you're one of the sad few who don't know, get all the band's records you can and of corse buy this..best of 2014 so far.

thrash or die poser holocaust cd

let me start this by saying, I'm not one of those people who thinks every song has to be technical and every band has to have meaningful and deep lyrics. I like anal cunt for fucks sake. but this goes way past stupid. thrash or die is a thrash band from florida...did I mention thrash? because they mention thrash..in just about every fucking song. first off the mix. I'm not sure why the mix bothers me but it just sounds shitty. I don't really like polished mixes but this isn't my ideal type of unpolished mix. it sounds like a badly done demo. not the good black metal sort of mix or the echoy 80s thrash, this just sounds a bit too noisy. the music is the most vapid and empty retro thrash garbage I've ever heard. at least some retrothrash bands can make old rifs sound interesting. this just sounds like old exodus rifs. boring as fucking shit. not even mindless enough for me to bang my head..this makes me wanna turn it off. the musicianship is sloppy. moving on. the vocals, done by a guy who calls himself dr fukk are horrible. they sound like every bad attempt at slayer vocals, or even better. they sound like the dude from creator is either choking on a dick or he's being kicked in the nuts. his voice is enough to make you stop listening after the first track. and if you can put up with all this the bad production, the generic music, the annoying singer, then my fiend, here come the lyrics. I suppose I should have known better. this band is called thrash or die. how fucking creative! and the album is called poser holocaust. so I guess I should have been warned. but no....oh no. it was horrible. zombies, thrashing, beer, posers, thrashing posers, beer and thrash, every fucking thrash cleche is represented here in its most aweful form. thrash lord, no posers allowed, holy fuck. nevermind these guys sound like the trendiest poser cunts around. if you're in the band and would like to defend this abortion go ahead. even if all this was just a joke...it's not a funny one. this band recorded a few songs for a troma movie and they fit troma pretty well. If I didn't know better I'd even say this band was just a troma project. that at least would be kinda funny. this album is pathetic. it leaves you with no feeling other than fuck me where'd this headache come from? at least municipal waste, my longtime punching bag, can craft some enjoyable brainless thrash. tod cannot. avoid this album unless you're one of those new thrashers who wanna look cool. like the people they rant about in the songs. ironic that posers are the band's only market. this album isn't for people with any sort of taste in anything. it's for thrash newbys who are afraid of 80s thrash. honestly this band sounds like they got a few thrash records yesterday and said hey, we'll do that too! I put the age of the band at around 14/16 but on metal archives dr fukk is listen as in his 40s..i'm starting to think he might be retarded. listen dr fukk, keep wanking off to kiss and please put down the microphone. I know I rambled along on this, I just can't fucking stand this band. avoid it at all cost

dave brockie

someone wondered why I didn't post something the day of his death..because I'm not a trendy fuckwit that's why. I hate rip posts just like agz does, seriously they're annoying. rather i'll just post about dave. dave for those of you who don't know was the leed singer of gwar, death piggy, dave brockie experience and played in xcops. quite a funny and smart person, brockie was a huge inspiration for me to start my own funny band. that's not giving him enough credit as the later gwar stuff showed dave can rock harder than most people and could write less suttle but still somewhat funny lyrics. gwar was a great band, death piggy and dbx were both amazing. he also wrote one hell of a good book called whargoul which you should all read. why aren't you reading it? I'm pretty fuckin gutted about this loss, he was such an inspiration and I looked forward to seeing them live and maybe meeting the madman..just like anal cunt..this really sucks. listen to death piggy and dbx and gwar and read whargoul. but no rips, it sickens everyone with a mind. goodbye dave

the exploited punk's not dead lp

sory walter, punk is dead. maybe not then but now. me and bishop reviewed the last exploited album a fuckin long time ago. personally i enjoyed those reviews but bishop is lazy and can't pick a record. i still have that fucking protomen record he wanted me to review. anyway i thought I'd review the first exploited lp. pretty much your standard oi! /streetpunk here. fast, aggressive, meetheaded lyrics. before they sang about politics they sang about...sex and violence, cop cars, and believing in anarchy. not that anarchy, the simple kind. pretty good lp, could really do without the live intros and this just seems like a patchwork of single songs with a few new ones. whatever, this is still great. get this if you love raw ass 80s punk from scottland! and if you don't, fuck off! btw promotionwhore time! bishop, the cowriter (not really, he just likes to say he coownes a blog he does nothing with) of this blog has a new website where he said i can be something like a mod. think of the chaos! anyway go to http://www.100yearsrecords.co.uk and sign up for the forums. chat with us, spam us, post cat pics. do it or die!

seizure all hale the fucking system 7 ep

how the hell did I not talk about this record before! this record is fucking fantastic! 4 songs of midpased no bullshit hardcore punk..great guitar tone on this, bass throbs, but the singer...the singer has this great pissed off yet strangely melodic voice that works. pain is pain is pain is a song that has stayed with me all this time..that song effects me in ways you people can't dream of...what a fucking great record. one of the few records that I can honestly say has no bad song. song of the empire's lyrics are still dead on today, just replace communist with terrorist. what a powerful song! pain is pain is pain well..I've already told you. the closest thing to a bad song is nobody's child because it's the slowest, but this song rules...simple but so effective! the last track homecoming is just as good..this is a record I wanna play again and again and again..it's that good. I've never been able to play it just once. get this people, for 1986 this is some of the best hc you'll find.

black sabbath 13 cd

happy new year! sort of...yeah I finally got my computer problems fixed...so I'm back!!!! get ready for no one to give a shit..anyway, I figure i'll review a new album..because I'm just cool enough to do that...so we have black Sabbath, the immortal, the classic, the great. with a reunion album...oh shit! this band has released 19 albums before this (the reunion album with dio is a Sabbath album, got it?) and the early stuff was amazing..the reunion album with dio has great mments..so what's this album like? the first rat to be smelled is bill ward is gone..and some guy I've never heard of has taken his place..now how does this album sound? it fucking blows! sory kids, this isn't good, isn't classic, it's a ritch band trying to make more money by doing what they did 44 years ago, just less good. the production is hollow as hell, ozzy's voice is so studio effected it's almost funny, the riffs are old, the songs are way too long, everything about this album pretty much sucks shit. I wasn't really expecting anything and I got less. god is dead is a horribly droning song (though my idiot friend eric likes it) and it gets worse after that. have fun buying this, you'll wish you slipped into a coma. this is boring southern rock with a touch of metal. but hey, no one will listen to me, Sabbath's sheeplike fans will buy it anyway..i think it's time to take this band out and shoot it, it's way past its prime. well that's all I gotta say about this abortion. and no, this isn't a 1 off review, I'm back motherfuckers! though bishop will be the only one that cares..or maybe he won't even..fuckin hell I do this for the love of it