Retro Raunch Revisit

With cover art by Pushead, the band's 2nd album was the beginning of their crossover music shift that saw post-thrash, speed & hardcore meshing with burgeoning groove. Along with alternating lead vocals & thunderous drumming, BTD's underrated streamlined sound of rythmic riffing and the brashness of their stop-start schizophrenic time-changes also incorporated sparse elements of nihilistic noisy dissonance & industrial plodding. With the album's 3 singles and 2 official videos, the New York power trio would find themselves sandwiched inbetween grunge & metal and even snubbed by both who called them pedestrian and/or hit-and-miss mediocre (ironically inspite of rotation on MTV's Headbanger's Ball and with the decade's observation of listening tastes expanding personal musical horizons) but this was a unique surgically clean approach with melodic density more perfectly fitting beside HELMET, VOIVOD and PANTERA before their later mechanic albums that followed. Happy 30th Anniversary.