This album is the perfect showcase of Pete Steele’s sick sense of humor coupled with the band’s ability to thrash out high-test, super-aggressive metal in a form that is both powerful and hilarious. From the orchestrated insults against Catholic school and a repressed childhood in “Angry Neurotic Catholics” to the primal energy (and incredible bass work) in “Sex and Violence”, every song on this album is of the type you want to crank up to eleven when you have neighbors you want to aggrivate. The song “Jesus Hitler”, the story of a reincarnation of the Nazi leader and the Christian messiah, is so hilarious that I had to listen to it about 863 times the summer I first got this tape. Pete Steele can SCREAM, too. His “NOTHING CAN STOP THE PAIN” in “Inner Conflict” is amazing.

The new CD version is good, with three demo tracks and some old photos I’d never seen with my original tape. I like the Type O Negative stuff a lot too, but I would not have minded another album or two in this direction. Still, this is great stuff and a must-have.