It helps that this was one of maybe the first five death metal albums I ever heard, and was one of the few albums I actually owned for years, so it's imprinted on my DNA at this point, but I still say it's a lost gem of not only Napalm Death but of death metal in general. Almost all of the grind is gone, but the riffs are amazing and the street level punk approach to professionally played death metal is actually pretty unique to Napalm Death, so even if it's a standard ND album it still stands out like a sore thumb in the genre. It's just so immediate, catchy, and slams you hard in the face. Not all of the songs are gold, but much of them are and the standouts are some of the best death metal songs ever recorded.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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