 Lawnmower Deth
 Blunt Cutters
 Review by Gary Hill

I've heard of this band for a long time, but this is my first time hearing them. I had heard that they were thrash metal. I don't think that classification fits other than the last song here. I'd consider them to be a hardcore punk band. Mind you, the difference between those two types of music is a matter of degrees over one line or the other. I'm reminded of things like GWAR and Stormtroopers of Death in a lot of ways on this, and both of those bands similarly lean near the boundary of the two styles. Both of them have a lot of humor in the mix, too. That's true of this, as well.
As you might expect of this type of music, parental advisories are prevalent. In fact, they are so common here that I haven't put them on individual tracks, but instead am issuing a blanket one. It should also be noted that the songs are generally very short - so short that an album that runs quite a bit less than 40 minutes has 18 songs. This is all very entertaining, and I suppose it is worth noting that the production quality is definitely higher than what you expect with hardcore punk.
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