Reviews:

The classic first burst of raw punk by DISCHARGE has not stood the test of time as well as some of their other material, but retains enough energy and aggression to deserve association with their better, later work. For one thing, the songs are uniformly slow, and the vocals are occasionally double-tracked, which takes the intensity down a notch. The song structures are not quite the rigid, career-making haiku of "Why?", and the lyrics are almost epic by comparison. I have heard live versions of these songs played much faster and better (on the First London Show bootleg and Nightmare Continues - where "Realities of War" is played so fast as to be almost unrecognizable). All that said, the makings of a legend are here: the immortal cover art, the war/system lyrics, the 7th-grade level understandings of anarchist doctrine, and the debut of the d-beat (which benefits from a loud drum mix). Anyways, this is a classic by any standards and definitely an essential, although *not* the definitive, DISCHARGE record.
-BEN PARKER