Mace

01. Mace - Process Of Elimination, 1985 Vinyl LP Album      Restless Records, C.O.M.A. Records - 72074-1, none 02. Mace - The Evil In Good, 1988 Vinyl LP      Medusa Records, Ever Rat Records - 7 72283-1, 7 72283-1 Yes, they were on Metal Massacre 5 in 1984, and yes their records artwork look like entries in the thrash metal index. But, at least to these old ears, they are much more punk than metal. The first album is entirely punk, with noisy guitar solos maybe, but totally punk nonetheless with a taste for speed metal riffing like an overheated infusion of compact Dead Boys and Kraut into a bathtub of Executioner and primitive Zoetrope. The second LP sees Mace intensify the metal riffage and the tempo without throwing out the punk thing and we smile even more because this is great. Competent, rough, angry, straight forward and great. Fans of Genöcide know what I mean. Mace me to a pulp! Remove brackets and unzip: [punkothrashosaur] !ZER Mace ZER!