RESURRECTIONS
Unearthing the latest metal reissues
Schammasch: feeling apprehensive about the apocalypse
MOST PEOPLE CAN remember exactly where they first heard NAILS’ astonishing Unsilent Death (Southern Lord) [8], because that’s where the paramedics pieced their skulls back together. Unleashed anew to celebrate the album’s 10th anniversary, it now boasts three tracks from the Oxnard crew’s Obscene Humanity seven-inch and two previously unreleased bursts of undiluted hostility. Expanded to a pummelling 23 minutes, it’s still guaranteed to smash your face in. Only more so. More user-friendly but equally pissed-off, 1556/SILENCE’s Irrational Pull (Nuclear Blast) [8] deserved more props first time around, but this bonus-boosted reissue should belatedly do the job. Gleefully inventive but still crushing in a Knocked Loose kind of way, it’s a blistering debut.