Live tracks and instrumentals DO NOT count as rarities! They're boring when they come as b-sides and they're boring when you stick them on an album with no rhyme or reason. Why these songs? What do they gain from being stripped of vocals? What about these live recordings is special, beyond that they show how you can play really well live, but can't sing so good?

So other than those we have a handful of previously unreleased tracks - one OK original that sounds like it probably came from the ... read more

This is a really good heavy metal record and I think with the right record label behind it (and maybe if it had come out a few years earlier) it could've been a lot bigger. It's catchy as fuck, and mixes traditional thrash metal worship with pinches of modern metal and metalcore. It's a style not all too dissimilar to Avenged Sevenfold's City of Evil, just good dumb fun with plenty of twiddly guitar solos, breakneck paces and big choruses. I re-listened to it for the first time in a few years ... read more

Solid debut and a fun listen if you want some big, groovy riffs with lighter psychedelic touches to get stoned to. This is an excellent wake-and-bake album in particular. The songs are entertaining and sound good, but none of them are quite as memorable or impactful as those on their follow-up Time Travelling Blues.

Shit goes hard. This is just riff after riff after riff and it ends on one of the best stoner rock songs ever penned. Production is clearly hindered a little by it's budget but it more than gets the job done. When those big grooves hit, they hit in absolutely the right place. Classic of the genre.