Continuing on with my thrash-centric reviews, I thought it was about time I brought up Municipal Waste. Much like Toxic Holocaust, Municipal Waste is a band celebrating 1980's thrash, but borrowing more from the D.R.I. school of crossover (espicially Tony Foresta's vocals) with a healthy dose of reckless partying thrown in.
Hazardous Mutation is their first release on Earache and while more polished than their earlier efforts, is a lot less polished than their follow up, The Art Of Partying, which came out three years later. It's fast and fun, with some blazing riffs and serious speed. There are no keyboards, no sound effects, nothing to detract from the relentless pace of hardcore thrash and its awesome.
There are also very few stand-outs on the album for me, unlike The Art Of Partying, which has a ton of tracks I can name and wait for when I listen to that record. That being said, this album kills. Its dense and fun where many of their contemporaries seem to find it more important to be serious and hard, they get down with beer and thrash in equal measure andhow can you possibly not like that?
