The megaferocious 1996 album from the Flying Luttenbachers is the first to feature the lineup of guitarist Chuck Falzone, founding member/drummer Weasel Walter, and bassist Bill Pisarri, capturing the band in the blinding heat of their mid-90's speedthrash-No Wave-deathjazz phase, and it's one of my favorite Luttenbachers slabs without a doubt. This is the point where the band made the transformation from the earlier, punk-infected hardcore jazz stuff into a shredding, death/speed metal/No New York influenced assault that incorporated violin, clarinets and saxophone with blistering, skeletal thrash riffs and Weasel's spastic blastbeats that are pushed to the rupturing point. Blats of chaotic, violent noise and extreme (to say the least) high-energy improvisation meet tightly wound thrash compositions like "Clank" and "Murder Machine Muzak", and are subsequently splattered with saxophone squonk (also courtesy of Weasel Walter), the malevolent skree of scraped violin strings, and disintegrating noise. The screeching, caustic guitar playing from Chuck Falzone is treble-heavy and savage, and Pisarri's bass is wrangled into a constant state of low-end clusterbomb explosions, making the songs a real attack on the nervous system. Revenge is the "thrashiest" set of jams that the Luttenbachers ever assembled, and might be their most straightforward set of songs as well, but there is no denying the abrasive noisy fury that the band creates. This album is an essential listen for anyone curious about the Chicago skronk-thrash/Skin Graft/Luttenbachers phenom, and is a crucial part of the Flying Luttenbachers catalog. Highly recommended.