I’m a big fan of Bad Brains. When I heard they released a new album, I was kind of sketchy, I mean WTF, they haven’t done anything good since ‘Quickness’. ‘Build a Nation’ is f’ckin raw. This album puts any other hardcore band to shame. Period. I haven’t listened to a lot of Hardcore for years because it is kind of boring, but when you have talented musicians playing this style of music, it changes your tune. BB are famous for being the ‘talented’ punk rock band. In fact a lot of punk rock/hardcore bands did not like touring with them because of their skills, they also knew it and were dickheads about it. I thought ‘Build a Nation’ would suck, on the contrary. From the first track this CD is balls out, they throw in some trad reggae tunes in there just to relax the mind a bit, which is nice, and pretty good, in a Damian Marley sense.

If you like their old stuff and are into Pantera and Slayer, you will dig this shit. Rawk!