Originally titled 'Under Rule', the noticeable experimentation in sound marked a turning point. While singer Barney's growls & barking are still intact, there is less of the furious blast beats which now saw an incorporation of slower tempo and groove, both elements influenced from alterno & grunge bands. Happy 25th Anniversary.


And Happy 20th Anniversary to this band's 9th album. Having been out of the thrash game for almost a decade, and with previous efforts that divided fans, this was a fine & welcome return to form of sheer pulverizing intensity.

Naming themselves after some 1952 atomic explosion tests, this short-lived but fondly remembered pre-RANCID ska punk outfit from Berkeley were a resident fixture at the city's famed 924 Gilman Street club, and along with GREEN DAY, SCREECHING WEASEL and THE QUEERS were staples of the Lookout Records label. And the ska man logo may have possibly been lifted from an Apr 1988 Spider Man comic cover. Happy 30th Anniversary.

All aboard the spaceship Nostromo, and micro changes in air density, my ass! Xenomorph facehugger & chestbursting stowaways permitted, and puffy panty bulges also welcome. Happy 40th Anniversary.

Today marks the 40th anniversary of BABYLON PINK (1979) premiering in XXX theaters. Sigmund Freud would have a headshrinking field day with these ladies: a bored wife, dominant businesswoman, timid dinner guest, older woman, and one horny teen. All characters brimming with sexually frustrated repression that sucCUMbs to therapeutic lustful fantasy -- staple roles that will reoccur & be revisited countless times.

A superb monster debut of blasphemy & sacrilege from these metal pioneers showcasing the incarnation of evil evolvement: heavy thrash & faster speed morphing into the birth of death. Happy 30th Anniversary. R.I.P. Richard Brunelle.

Only one burnin' desire. Happy 35th Anniversary.

Giallo trash rooted in religion and rife with drug addiction, revenge, murder and sinful sex with sisters of the cloth. Hallelujah and Happy 40th Anniversary.