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If you are metal, you must have this album!!!

sicklefinger | Birmingham, AL United States | 03/30/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"As the popularity of true metal music is fading again (don't worry it will rise again eventually), it's nice to see this album is being reintroduced to a new audience. When this album was first released, everyone was blown away. I would blare this from my car until the speakers were cracked and melted, I listened to Nailbomb in a village in West Africa, I still listen to this album when the need for aggression overcomes - it doesn't matter, this album kicks ass all over the world and will never sound dated because it's so brutally honest. The guitar riffs are simple and the lyrics straightforward. But the combination of these particular musicians and the music they made is completely devastating. I still think this is some of Max Cavalera's best work ever. There are guest players all over this album, but the core is cavalera and alex newport and their unique sounds/styles. Almost every song is a metal anthem. Elements of hardcore, punk, thrash, whatever heavy music you want is evident on these songs.If you play guitar, you will play these songs. If you don't play guitar, you'll want to. And everyone will want to scream these songs until their eyes bleed.
Get this album and you will see why most metal today is yoo-hoo and nailbomb is the real-deal chocolate shake."

Who knew 2 guys and a drum machine could be so loud?

Gunther Haagendazs | Up High in the Trees | 08/27/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"That's right. Nailbomb is a side project of Max Cavelera (When he was in Sepultura) and Alex Newport (When he was in fudge Tunnel) While there is the occasional appearance of Igor Cavelera and Andreas Kisser of (also of Sepultura) this is entirely Max and Alex's show. It's a Punk filled Metal album with all the anger and hate you could expect. The drum machine and samples work rather well and add certain style that is only found with Nailbomb. The opener Wasting Away shreds where as the closer Sick Life...does the same thing! It reflects back on the problems in society, police, religion, etc. I often find myself laughing at the beginning of the cover of Doom's Exploitation.



Here we have the remastered version with bonus tracks and more artwork/pictures/lyrics in the sleeve. Problem though, is that all the bonus tracks have been released before. They're all on Proud to Commit Commercial Suicide. This is an Album and a half. If they were going to do this they might as well have re-released both in a 2 disc set. We know that the energy on the live songs isn't as good as the studio versions, but they still entertaining. Most notably is the cover of Dead Kennedy's Police Truck. The only remotely bad song on the whole package is the B-side Zero Tolerance. If you like punk or metal or both you can not pass this up.

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An Absolute Metal Classic

Joel Israel | Cedar City, UT United States | 02/21/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Nailbomb, a one-off side project of Sepultura's Max Cavalera and Fudgetunnel's Alex Newport; finally reissued with bonus tracks. Sometimes categorized as industrial because of the use of drum programming both in the studio and live; this is not terribly accurate. Nailbomb is more along the lines of very heavy underground metal with slight industrial influences....NIN this is not. This album has always been one of my favorites, and remains so to this day on those mornings when you just gotta blare nihilistic pissed-off music on your car stereo.



This album is far from perfect- but it truly is a classic in the genre and nearly unrivalled to this day in terms of sheer energy and attitude. Great hardcore-influenced quasi-death metal chunk riffs downtuned and beamed directly to your noggin from your oppressive overlords. Max and Alex's angry rhetoric seems directionless at times; your typical "screw everything establishment" kind of thing-although I do understand that Max Cavalera is a sort of activist and hails from Brazil where social inequality and repression are the norm- but it really gels and is elevated to great altitude by the sheer enthusiasm of it all. A never-to-be-repeated classic fusion of underground attitude and classic death metal. Nice reissue with bonus tracks...."