Carnivore – Retaliation LP (Light Green vinyl) Online now

No one in the New York crossover metal scene could make a guy laugh like Carnivore front man Pete Steele. Whether it was the vomit-in-the-toilet track Jack Daniels and Pizza, which opened the band s second album Retaliation or the crudely drawn obscene Sharpie renderings Steele would scribble on passed out musicians and crew members. Steele was a one of a kind and his perverse, oddball sense of humor infiltrated and enhanced his viciously aggressive blend of hardcore and metal. Just take two of Retaliation s many standouts, Angry Neurotic Catholics and S.M.D. (Suck My Dick).

For Retaliation , I really wanted to make an album that was half Black Sabbath-type metal and half ripping hardcore, he said before the album s original reissue in 1987. I just loved that vibe, so I incorporated the slowness and heavy dirge sound with the incredible energy of bands like Cro-Mags, Agnostic Front, Murphy s Law and Sheer Terror.  More than 35 years after it s release, Retaliation still stands as a landmark achievement in crossover music and another indication of Pete Steele s immense gift for songwriting, a talent he would demonstrate time and again between 1991 and 2007 with Type O Negative. Here comes the 2022 vinyl reissue with the original cover and bonus tracks as Ltd. Edition Gatefold double album with light green colour vinyl.