Brutal Truth—Need to Control
Recently I've been working my way through these guys' discography, and though all of it has been decent, this album was really a pleasant surprise. On the one hand, yes, it's classic, crazy, balls to the walls grindcore, but on the other hand it's so much more. For one thing, there are sizable dashes of thrash and noise rock in the mix. More important, though, are the details. At every turn this album seems to reinvent itself with unusual sound loops, odd percussion, horns, spoken word... hell they even throw in a didgeridoo at one point. Really, if you dig loud music, and you like it with a dollop of experimentalism, give this a listen. I just wish they'd continued in this direction on subsequent albums.