Release Year: 2009
Artist Origin: USA
Style: intense savage aggressive thrash metal
one of the landmark longplays [1985] of Bay Area scene is also responsible for launching the seismic thrash metal wave worldwide: essentially violent attack is highlighted by legendary vocalist, the late Paul Baloff, who literally torments the microphone, and lashing riffs of Gary Holt; it is an album whose influence far exceeds its actual notoriety, and remains a crucial piece of the whole metal puzzle, while new bands of today still use it as a framework to start their own thing; recent German edition comes with a remastered sound plus A Lesson in Violence and And Then There Were None live bonuses from 1989's performance at London's Astoria