I listened to Walk Among Us twice on a barely forty-minute drive this afternoon, and I haven't had this much fun with such a mean, dirty record since I bought Melissa. "All Hell Breaks Loose" is about as catchy as a song that's 1:47 can be, and the thrashing of "Vampira" came and went in the time it took me to change lanes. That's some goddamn hyperspeed punk for you.The most fist-pumping track was the insanely fast live cut of "Mommy Can I Go Out & Kill Tonight," and the way the live recording was engineered makes the instruments whirl about in a furious sludge - incoherent, but excellent.
Especially after re-watching the video for Danzig's "Mother" on VH1 Classic this morning and thinking of him in his Jim Morrison days, it's refreshing to hear Glenn spew his monster movie lyrics at machine gun speed. It's about as much fun as music in this style can be, and it's too bad that the original lineup of the band splintered in 1983, only a year and a half after Walk Among Us was released.
"All Hell Breaks Loose" live
"Mommy Can I Go Out & Kill Tonight" live
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