The band's most overtly metal release to date

This band is one I can remember becoming aware of through a passing reference in a Kerrang! review of something else. With an album title like that combined with album art like that I knew it was going to be something aggressive. I was not disappointed. 

It starts off with some clip I've never been able to trace. And then launches straight into the defiant, chaotic title track. Steve Austin's signature multi layered vocals combine with Mastodon's rythym section to create a hi-octane, snarling feast of metallic brilliance. 

I must admit the interludes have never really caught me but they do serve to break up proceedings and stop it becoming a singular wall of noise. It could become too much with the constant time changes and relentless hostility that just oozes from this album. The individual tracks are short, staccato bursts with few lasting longer than three minutes. This still provides ample opprtunity for the musicians to show off their chops, Brann Dailor in particular being a highlight and you could tell his successor band Mastodon were going to be fabulous.

The last track of the album goes into a weird coda that doesn't count as part of the main event, however the last track proper feels something like a jam session (but from these guys a jam is still very listenable and very eerie in this particular instance). 

Overall I think this is a splendid album, one of the best metal albums of the 90s. And some people think it isn't metal because some of their earlier albums were pure noise rock and not aggressive enough to count as metal. This shows them!