Birth A.D. does a couple great things with this album; first off they’ve created a pretty solid album with lots of awesome songs. Its twenty minutes where you can just let your mind go and enjoy listening to music like you’re fucking fourteen again. Which brings the next thing they do really well here, these songs for the most part aren’t overly complicated. They’re simple, but good. They get in, make the point, have fun, and move on to the next one. They also display talent for almost two types of music here, a lot of songs are just punk song, but there’s also a ton of thrash, basically wherever I turned I was into it. Fans of old angry fast punk rock, thrash and cross-over and bands like D.R.I., S.O.D. and C.O.C should, no, need to check this album out. It’s a fucking great one!
‘Equal Opportunity’ The intro/outtro of the phone ring is a little weird but it’s a quality punk rock song here.
‘Failed State’ We’ve got more of the metal edge showing here with a straight up thrash song.
‘Kill Everybody’ This one sounds like a disorganized hardcore song, besides the simple chorus and the breakdown, this song isn’t quite up to snuff, especially after following the last two great songs.
‘Bring Back the Draft’ Back to the simple quality of thrash here, songs like this are what I think of when I hear crossover-thrash. Not a punk song but not full on thrash metal either.
‘Cause Problems’ Your basic simple punk rock song.
‘No Jobs (Don’t Work)’ Now this is a song really after my heart. This is what I like to call the everyman theme song. Fuck jobs.
‘No, Man’ Another fucking awesome fast punk thrash jam, we need more stuff like this today.
‘Parasites Die’ One of the more thrashy songs on the album, especially from the guitar parts, it’s also one of the more pissed off songs. Every punk/thrash album needs some anger.
‘This Scene Sucks’ Songs like this come up every so often, and they’re normally true most of the time. It’s not something you haven’t heard before but I’m not going to ignore it, I always like this song, whatever form it takes.
‘Blow Up the Embassy’ Ending things here is another punk-thrash anthem. This song isn’t bad but lyrically it seems like it was written by a sixteen year old, luckily the music can carry it.
1. Equal Opportunity
2. Failed State
3. Kill Everybody
4. Bring Back the Draft
5. Cause Problems
6. No Jobs (Don’t Work)
7. No, Man
8. Parasite Die
9. This Scene Sucks
10. Blow Up the Embassy
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This is a Mikey Erg record but it’s nothing like you’re expecting. This is NOT a pop punk record. What you get is five thrash songs from Mikey, all of the songs are under a minute long. A fast, loud and angry Mikey Erg is what Bloated Kat Records unleashed upon us. And if that isn’t strange enough this thing isn’t even a normal record, it’s a fucking flexi disc. What’s a flexi disc you ask? You might remember them if you’re old enough, it’s pretty much a cheap flimsy thin piece of vinyl (or plastic for all I know) that has the record pressed into it on one side. It’s square, it’s weird, but it’s better than a tape. If you want to hear Mikey Erg like you’ve never heard him before then Fucifier is what you’re looking for, the pentagram on the cover should tell you all you need to know.
