Matt Shafer

This is one of those rare albums that I can listen to straight through without skipping any tracks. Jimmy P. Brown III is, of course, an iconic voice and guitar and the rest of the band gels perfectly with his unique thrash/prog style. Several of the songs are mainstays of Christian metal ("Stay of Execution", "Words to the...", and the "Weapons of Our Warfare" remix), but I find that the lesser-known tracks really appeal to me. "Horrendous Disk" tells the story of a recording artist whose deepest secrets get put on display for the world to see the way God does and "Ramming Speed" is a Ben-Hur inspired song that is slow, methodical, and heavy. Did I mention it's also sheer genius? I bought this album brand-new in 1992; it's now 2020 and I still have it on a record player twenty-eight years later so I can hear it the way it was originally recorded.