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ANNIHILATION TIME  III:Tales Of The Ancient Age  LP   (Tee Pee)   14.98
III:Tales Of The Ancient Age IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE FOR ORDER

Also available on vinyl (black), which comes with a plastic dropcard with download information to receive a free MP3 version of Tales Of The Ancient Age. Plus, Shaun Filley's awesome cover art looks just right at this size!

After one album on the defunct Manic Ride label and another that was self-released, Oakland rippers Annihilation Time are back with their latest blast of manic, whiskey-fueled thrash, the band's first for their new label Tee Pee, an imprint that I was kinda surprised to see a hardcore band putting out a record on at first, since so much of what I've been listening to on Tee Pee has been monster heavy psych metal (Sleep, Witch, Earthless, etc.). Back when a buddy first turned me on to Annihilation Time's first album, I thought that their rocking hardcore was pretty badass, hopped up on an obvious SST/Black FLag influence but putting their own hard rocking spin on the sound. Now with Tales Of The Ancient Age, those hard rock vibes are more prominent than ever with a twin-guitar attack that has caused some to compare A-Time to Thin Lizzy...I'm hearing that just a wee bit but only in the tasty harmonized solos that pop up a couple times in the album. I'm hearing just as much of a diet of Ted Nugent and Deep Purple circa Machine Head but jacked up on hard liquor and speedballs and raging at top-speed hardcore tempos, filtered through the bare knuckled aggro of Black Flag but way more ROCK and much less SKRONK than the Flag comparison might lead you towards...though check out the 1:29 powerbomb "Jonestown" for some gnarly fretboard beating and one of the fastest, hardest jams on the disc. Then there's "About To Snap", an awesome warning shot with infectious riffage that spins off into some amazing Iron Maidan worthy dual axe harmonizing at the end. Nice. The whole deal is raw and no-frills, just sweet ripping riffs and hooks to match, blasting at HC tempos and shredding bloozy guitar moves and sweet shredding all over your face. Hardcore thrashing rock and roll speedboogie wreckage, one of the funnest fuckin' punk albums I've picked up since I can't remember. Added points for the great album art too; the cover art is an actual illustrated painting (it's good to see this approach becoming more and more popular) of a post-society collapse street with fascist stormtrooper cops, babies packing heat, hookers, puking punks, amputee wasteoids and some poor bastard being devoured by a giant alligator that just lunged out of a manhole - really cool. The disc comes in this full color digipack, we've got it on vinyl too.


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