"Shark Attack"Hmm, looks like the long-dormant New Renaissance label is back in action. (Which of course makes my Blood Feast CD worthless...but I digress.) Anyway...this album, never before released on CD, is a spectacular mix of thrash & hardcore. "United Shoe Brothers" ends with a (fake-sounding) tape of one of the band members puking into a garbage can, pretty damn funny. On the downside, 2 songs are missing from this reissue: the mini-song "E!" (perhaps the shortest song ever, at 0.4 seconds) is missing, what's up with that?? Also, the cassette bonus track, "Concrete Meat", isn't here either. Jesus Christ, what's wrong with you New Renaissance people?!? Oh well...at least I managed to score this disc off eBay for about $12 below it's list price, so it's not a MAJOR loss...
"Biermacht"This one feels more like an EP, with a lighter tone than their debut, thanks to a number of beer-oriented songs (I guess they fancied themselves an American version of Tankard?) Happily, the mini-song "E!" is back, although it's bookended by two, umm, "remix" versions (as it was on the crappy vinyl). The super-speedy, horror-themed "Night of Pain" is the best song of their career...which ended after this album.
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