A friend of mine played me some of this album once and I then went about trying to find my own copy of it for quite a few years. When I did find it, though, it seemed to that my memory of this obscure disc had embellished how good it was. In a lot of ways, it’s just a little too outlandish for my tastes. The thing I remembered so fondly was this San Francisco band’s affinity for lambasting wrecked cars, oil drums, and other large items of metal for their percussion sounds – a really interesting sound, to be sure! But what I forgot was that the band’s usual style seems to fall somewhere between industrial and thrash metal – not my type at all. One particularly weird track – actually two weird tracks, part one and part two of “God Devil Head” – consists entirely of two distorted voices screaming “God!” and “Devil!” I’m quite reluctant to even attempt to figure out what they were thinking at the time. I do know, however, that I really don’t want to listen to a grand total of nearly three minutes of two guys shouting the same two words at each other over and over again. There’s also the very unusual “Queer Boy Behind An Iron Gate”, on whose 
meaning I’m even more reluctant to speculate. But there are some great rhythm pieces in between the very oddly titled nonsense, my favorite being “Song For Trees”, a pounding, native-flavored track with a flute squealing aimlessly and primitively amid a hail of metallic impacts. Really, I can’t recommend this to too many, and it’s probably the furthest outside of my usual music tastes that my collection has ever wandered.
- Vertical Assault (2:02)
- Oh My Brothers! (2:56)
- And Crush (3:58)
- God Devil Head (1:52)
- Song for Trees (2:41)
- SHO (Peace I) (1:42)
- Queer Boy Behind an Iron Gate (4:18)
- Praise God (4:04)
- Arabia Deserta (2:41)
- Peace II (1:50)
- Lost at Sea (3:57)
- I Am So Close (0:39)
- Metal (4:53)
- God Devil Head – conclusion (0:52)
- War Crush (14:40)
Released by: Primitech
Release date: 1991
Total running time: 53:05
