This album was released in 1987 by Metal Blade Records, and to digress, I found out in a recent interview with Reed Mullin that Tom Araya from Slayer helped get them signed up with Metal Blade. It was released as an EP and later re-released with bonus tracks by Relativity Records. They are the demo versions of “Technocracy,” “Crawling,” and “Happily Ever After.” This also includes the two-minute long demo “Intervention,” which never made it on the original release. The demo versions feature bassist Mike Dean on lead vocals.

The entire album is some of the fastest, hard hitting punk metal you will ever hear. It was ground breaking in its time and should be in every metal head’s collection. This will be a review of the original release as I heard it when I heard COC. It was a random EP someone handed me on a bootleg tape, and I of course, ran right out (actually a 45 minute drive away at the time to the nearest store that would sell heavy music) and picked up the real release on tape so I could enjoy the artwork, too.

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This is the title track and for me what started it all. This comes on so hard, yet with some of the most unique bass lines and guitar riffs that will have you instantly emblazon this song into your memory, leaving it for recall even 20 years later. It features super fast riffs and drum beats that will tear the paint off the walls. I remember just tearing apart my parents’ speakers with this song, and, in fact, this entire EP.

This is like a short outro with some giggling  and a short riff.