Politics aside, how does the album sound? Really strong. Why release it now? Well, according to vocalist Pete Stahl, these songs were original recorded at the height of Ronald Reagan’s time in the Oval Office – a lot of what the band was singing about back in 1988 seems relevant again today. This was the band’s fourth album, but the first to feature a pre-Nirvana Grohl behind the drum kit. Remastered from the original tapes and remixed at Dave Grohl’s own 606 Studios, this reissue also completely redoes the packaging and comes complete with a bunch of archival photos, lyrics and personal writing from the band (or at least it’s supposed to – this review is based off of an MP3 download that didn’t include any of that neat stuff).
Southern Lord is all set to reissue No More Censorship (retitled NMC17) from Washington D.C.’s seminal hardcore outfit, Scream.
