Here's the latest repress of this rippin' 2006 Ep from Cali stoner punks Annihilation Time, featuring three songs of their Flag-esque mix of 70s rock/metal riffage and ferocious hardcore punk. Released prior to their final album III - Tales Of The Ancient Age, this Ep has some of my favorite tuneage from this band, and I don't think I'm alone as this has been repressed over and over again to satiate the band's still growing legion of fans.

The a-side track "Reality?" is one Annihilation Time's most majestic thrashers, opening with some sweet metallic power that has a whiff of Judas Priest around it, then hurtling into the awesome, jagged hardcore at the meat of the song. Their adoration of B'last and Black Flag is still devout, the guitarist peeling off loads of wicked Greg Ginn-esque skronk-leads as the band twists itself around some off-kilter time changes. Then it all drops into a big Sabbath riff in the middle, which crawls over the song for awhile before finally tearing back into the speed assault. Pure power.

The b-side tracks are shorter blasts of thrash, "Feel It" raging at top speed with anthemic riffs galore and screaming lead guitar solos whipping the band into ever greater frenzies, like some 70s stadium metal band racing at top speed for their life. "Annihilate" follows, another Flag-style hammer to the face delivered with top metallic precision.

Highly recommended to fans of their albums, obviously, as well as anyone into the newer band Lecherous Gaze that some of these guys went on to form after Annihilation Time broke up, this is one of those few modern records to really capture the sort of frenzied, rockin' hardcore violence found with the likes of Eye For An Eye-era Corrosion Of Conformity, late-era Flag, and B'last!'s crushing metallic output.