One of the best musical experiences of my life was walking into CBGB's for the record release for this album. I think Ritual Tension and Raging Slab also played. I had never heard of any of the bands. But my girlfriend and I had taken a trip to NYC, before I moved there a few years later. We were next door at the CB's weird record store they ran for a while. We went there between sets, so we came back and Prong had already started. They initally sounded like Scratch Acid to me when I walked in, then they sped up so FAST it sounded like Destruction and I couldn't believe it! In those days Tommy, the singer/guitarist, also did sound for CB's so the sound was IMPOSSIBLY good. I couldn't believe the strangeness of music itself and the quality of sound system in this "rail-road" style club. About...a year later I met the drummer in some random way and found out he was ALSO the drummer for SWANS. My mind was blown! There really wasn't a "category" for Swans, but we used to call it "industrial," and it certainly wasn't like Prong. If you could see the environment and the time, you would be shocked. CB's in those days, the PURE hardcore Sundays, was like something you can't imagine. Leeway, Cro-mags, Crumbsuckers, Sheer Terror, on and on. The club did tons of other music on other days, but for Prong to come out of that time and place was mind blowing. A year or 2 later, I took a trip to Berkeley Ca, went to a "club" called Gilman Street, saw a band unknown to the world, but HUGE in the Bay area called Primus, and had ANOTHER magic music experience. I wrote all this because it was on my birthday--just like today!
Great band they started very early and in Italy. They should had been more well known but we know in those times it was all about underground scene, music fanzines and magazines ...no internet etc
Great to see (and hear) this amazing early album is still alive and not only in my computer. Can't find it on Apple Music, RU-vid Music, and I don't know about Spotify and the rest, but it seems it's kind of forgotten and unknown, which is sad I think.
Is this Hank Williams 3 on bass here?? Edit: yes it is and wow wtf I didn’t even realize!! Just got into hanks solo career and always been into superjoint. Mind blown.
This album is a classic of American thrash metal. Personally, I didn't like it when I heard it, but over the years I've grown fond of it. It is a musical compilation, some songs are part of the leftover from "Power and Pain", another is to do a more heavy metal fusion and others are closer to Metallica, an icon at that time. But it is not important musically, if not after more than 30 years. It is still remembered as a great thrash metal album.
Je vis des affronts, sans avoir les moyens financiers de les supporter, ils utilisent les ions, le Ciel et la Terre pour nous achever, nos élites juives, SOS ONU, OMCdes logiciels comme celui du Mc Donald où se cachent la collaboration, Mme Von Der Leyen, Elisabeth II, Laurent
Les personnes qui ont vécu la dernière guerre, me font subir des affronts épouvantables, nos grands -parents, par la CNAM, SENERO etc, SOS, MME VON DER LEYEN, ELISABETHII, ONU Laurent
