Aggressive and adrenaline-fuelled, Pasadena Napalm Division’s first full length is a dud. With D.R.I. functioning as a touring band only, mouth Kurt Brecht along with three of Texan thrashers Dead Horse and Bubba from Verbal Abuse have been bashing away at it since 2008 and written a mind-blowing thirteen tracks in just five years, five of which appeared on an EP released in 2010. Opener ‘100 Beers With A Zombie’ is fun, its simple riffs and comedic lyrics more a chuckle than a belly laugh, the same for ‘Bleached Blonde Despair’ and ‘Cemetery Mass’. After that, there’s nothing more to the album. There’s the occasional memorable riff or wacky chorus but nothing sticks for very long at all. And repeat listens don’t help either, no matter how hard you seek for something, anything to remain. The riffs are simplistic, the structures equally so, and the lyrics, well, they’re almost humorous. If it’s a nostalgic dead arm you’re after then maybe this will suffice, but like a dead arm, the minute pain will soon diminish and you can go about the rest of your day.

3/10

Jason Guest

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