Description

The UK crossover metal/crust band Hellbastard reunited and made a welcome return in 2007. The first taste of what the band was capable of today was the album The Need To Kill. Hellbastard has often being cited as the band who created the crust punk/metal wave of the early 1980s, these Brits flex their wide-ranging musical muscles on The Need to Kill by including everything from a banjo, whispered vocals, clean guitar and soundscapes to neck-break speeds, distorted crunches and breakdown stomps. They havent forgotten where they came from: in addition to the 10 new vibrant thrash/hardcore songs on this album The Need To Kill, the band has included 6 re-recorded Hellbastard classics. The album doesnt stray far from the milestone Natural Order album Earache Records put out back in 1990, either. The Need to Kill demands to be heard with a crisp, big sound thats signature Hellbastard. This is a must-have for all fans of the first wave of British crust/metal/punk and bands like Amebix, Concrete Sox, Deviated Instinct and Axegrinder

Track listing:
1. Cheyne Stoking
2. Going Postal
3. Anthropological Angst I
4. Stop Your Whining
5. Anthropological Angest II
6. Murder Workshop
7. Stressed
8. Fir Bolg, Bow to Slough Feg
9. My Best Friend Misanthropy
10. Business Pig Hole
11. Justly Executed-re-recording
12. The Pylons-re-recording
13. Afrikkan Beggar-re-recording
14. They Brought Death-re-recording
15. Heading for Internal Darkness-re-recording
16. Death Camp-re-recording